Alumni Member
Marta Sabou (Alumni) 
Research Fellow
During my time at KMi I focused on building a new generation of applications and tools that exploit the large scale semantic information available online. Within the context of this research line, I investigated methods for ontology selection, ontology evaluation, dynamic ontology matching and background knowledge based relation discovery (Scarlet). I also supervised three PhD's on topics related to this paradigm: multi-ontology question answering (AquaLog), ontology evolution (EVOLVA) and semantic enrichment of folksonomy tagspaces (FLOR).
Keys: Semantic Web, Ontologies, Ontology Matching, Ontology Learning, Ontology Evaluation, Semantic Web Services, Relation Discovery, Smart Products.
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Publications
Daga, E., Tamma, V. and Payne, T.R. (2027). Knowledge Graph Re-engineering Along the Ontological Continuum. In: 25th International Conference, EKAW 2026, 29 Sep - 1 Oct 2026, Turin, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/112847/.
Presutti, V., Motta, E. and Sabou, M. (2025). Opportunities for Knowledge Graphs in the AI landscape - An application-centric perspective. Journal of Web Semantics (Early access). https://oro.open.ac.uk/104426/.
Sabou, M. and Fernandez, M. (2012). Ontology (network) evaluation. In: Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen; Gómez-Pérez, Asunción; Motta, Enrico and Gangemi, Aldo eds. Ontology Engineering in a Networked World. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 193–212. https://oro.open.ac.uk/34438/.
Lopez, V., Uren, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2011). Is question answering fit for the Semantic Web? A survey. Semantic Web, 2(2), pp. 125–155. https://oro.open.ac.uk/29573/.
Sabou, M., Maleshkova, M. and Pan, J.Z. (2014). Semantically enabling web service repositories. In: Pan, Jeff Z. and Zhao, Yuting eds. Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering. Studies on the Semantic Web. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 139–158. https://oro.open.ac.uk/24910/.
Lopez, V., Fernandez, M., Motta, E., Sabou, M. and Uren, V. (2007). Question Answering on the Real Semantic Web. In: The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), 11-15 Nov 2007, Busan, Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28512/.
Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006). Ontology selection: ontology evaluation on the real Semantic Web. In: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), 23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23648/.
Sabou, M., d'Aquin, M. and Motta, E. (2006). Using the semantic web as background knowledge for ontology mapping. In: The 1st International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006), 10 Nov 2006, Athens, GA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23566/.
d'Aquin, M., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2006). Modularization: a key for the dynamic selection of relevant knowledge components. In: 1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, WoMO'06, 5 Nov 2006, Athens, Georgia, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23563/.
Maynard, D., Peters, W., d'Aquin, M. and Sabou, M. (2007). Change management for metadata evolution. In: International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics - IWOD 2007, 7 Jun 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23565/.
Gracia, J., Lopez, V., d'Aquin, M., Sabou, M., Motta, E. and Mena, E. (2007). Solving semantic ambiguity to improve semantic web based ontology matching. In: The 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Matching 2007, 11 Nov 2007, Busan, South Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23564/.
Fernandez, M., Sabou, M., Knoth, P. and Motta, E. (2010). Predicting the quality of semantic relations by applying Machine Learning classifiers. In: EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses, 11-15 Oct 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/26054/.
d'Aquin, M., Sabou, M., Dzbor, M., Baldassarre, C., Gridinoc, L., Angeletou, S. and Motta, E. (2007). WATSON: a gateway for the semantic web. In: The 4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2007), 3-7 Jun 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23561/.
d'Aquin, M., Gridinoc, L., Angeletou, S., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2007). Watson: a gateway for next generation semantic web applications. In: The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), 11-15 Nov 2007, Busan, Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23524/.
d'Aquin, M., Baldassarre, C., Gridinoc, L., Sabou, M., Angeletou, S. and Motta, E. (2007). Watson: supporting next generation semantic web applications. In: WWW/Internet 2007 Conference, 8-9 Oct 2007, Villareal, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23560/.
d'Aquin, M., Baldassarre, C., Gridinoc, L., Angeletou, S., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2007). Characterizing knowledge on the semantic web with Watson. In: Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-Based Tools: 5th International EON Workshop, 11 Nov 2007, Busan, South Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23555/.
Angeletou, S., Sabou, M., Specia, L. and Motta, E. (2007). Bridging the gap between folksonomies and the semantic web: an experience report. In: The 4th European Semantic Web Conference 2007 (ESWC 2007), 3-7 Jun 2007, Innsbruck, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23608/.
Zablith, F., Sabou, M., d'Aquin, M. and Motta, E. (2008). Using background knowledge for ontology evolution. In: International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD) at The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), 26-30 Oct 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23489/.
Sabou, M., d'Aquin, M. and Motta, E. (2008). SCARLET: SemantiC relAtion discoveRy by harvesting onLinE onTologies. In: The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), 1-5 Jun 2008, Tenerife, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23496/.
Angeletou, S., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2008). Semantically enriching folksonomies with FLOR. In: 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence & the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008) at The 5th Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), 1-5 Jun 2008, Tenerife, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23497/.
Tech Reports
State of the art on Semantic Question Answering
Techreport ID: kmi-07-03
Date: 2007
Author(s): Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren, Marta Sabou
