Alumni Member
Neil Benn (Alumni) 
Research Associate
I was in KMi from November 2002 to November 2010, first as a PhD student then as a researcher in the Semantic Web Services group headed by John Domingue. Projects I have been affiliated with are: Scholarly Ontologies (ScholOnto), LUISA, Living Human Digital Library (LHDL), NoTube, Service Web 3.0, and mEducator.
Quick personal background: Originally I am from the lovely island of Barbados and I came to the (also lovely) island of Great Britain in 2001 where I spent a year in the lovely city of York before coming to the lovely (tongue in cheek) city of Milton Keynes. I have now moved to the lovely city of Leeds. And I swear 'lovely' isn't the only adjective I know.
Lovely, now back to work.
Keys: academic discourse, argument analysis, ontology, digital libraries, Semantic Web, scholarly hypermedia, knowledge organisation systems (KOS)
News
Publications
Fernandez, M., Tirado, A., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025) Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, Nara, Japan
Ghafourian, Y., Hanbury, A. and Knoth, P. (2025) Ranking To Learn: Human Experts, Search Engines, or LLMs for Learning Guidance, TPDL 2025: The 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland
Cancellieri, M., El-Ebshihy, A., Fink, T., Fröbe, M., GaluÅ¡Äáková, P., Goeuriot, L., Iommi, D., Keller, J., Knoth, P., Mulhem, P., Piroi, F., Pride, D. and Schaer, P. (2025) Extended Abstract of LongEval at CLEF 2025: Longitudinal Evaluation of IR Systems on Web and Scientific Data, 16th International Conference of the CLEF Association (CLEF 2025), Madrid, Spain
Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier
Cancellieri, M., Docekal, M., Pride, D., Gruenpeter, M., Douard, D. and Knoth, P. (2025) Interoperable verification and dissemination of software assets in repositories using COAR Notify, The 20th International Conference on Open Repositories, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Tech Reports
Modelling Scholarly Debate: Conceptual Foundations for Knowledge Domain Analysis Technology
Techreport ID: kmi-09-04
Date: 2009
Author(s): Neil Benn
Designing the Ontological Foundations for Knowledge Domain Analysis Technology: An Interim Report
Techreport ID: kmi-08-02
Date: 2008
Author(s): Neil Benn, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue, Clara Mancini
Integrating Scholarly Argumentation, Texts and Community: Towards an Ontology and Services
Techreport ID: kmi-05-05
Date: 2005
Author(s): Neil Benn, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue
