Member
Paul Warren
Visiting Research Fellow
Working with Dr Paul Mulholland, I am interested in using insights from cognitive psychology to understand how people make sense of information. My Ph.D. thesis looked at Description Logics, a class of languages used to create ontologies. Specifically, I investigated a particular Description Logic syntax called Manchester OWL Syntax. Subsequently I looked at how people query and make sense of Linked Data. Recently, I have been investigating how people make sense of art and how this sensemaking can be influenced by music. Currently, I am interested in analysing text to gain an understanding of people's sensemaking processes.
Keys: sensemaking, art-music cross-modality, sentiment analysis, linked data, SPARQL, ontologies, description logics
Projects
News
10 Sep 2020
18 Nov 2019
25 Jul 2017
14 Jul 2017
04 Jun 2014
Publications
Warren, P. (2025). Sensemaking across the modalities - art, music, and text. The Open University. https://oro.open.ac.uk/104164/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Daga, E. and Asprino, L. (2024). Path-based and triplification approaches to mapping data into RDF: User behaviours and recommendations. Semantic Web, 15(6), pp. 2479–2505. https://oro.open.ac.uk/99559/.
Mulholland, P., Stoneman, A., Barker, N., Maguire, M., Carvalho, J., Daga, E. and Warren, P. (2023). The Sound of Paintings: Using Citizen Curation to Explore the Cross-Modal Personalization of Museum Experiences. In: Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH) at UMAP ’23, 26 Jun 2023, Limassol, Cyprus. https://oro.open.ac.uk/88914/.
Warren, P. and Mulholland, P. (2022). Edge-labelled graphs and property graphs - to the user, more similar than different. In: KGSWC 2022: Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web. 4th Iberoamerican Conference and third Indo-American Conference, 21-23 Nov 2022, Madrid, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/86051/.
Warren, P. and Mulholland, P. (2022). Edge-Labelled Graphs and Property Graphs - To the User, More Similar Than Different. In: KGSWC 2022: Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web. 4th Iberoamerican Conference and third Indo-American Conference, 21-23 Nov 2022, Madrid, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/85909/.
Warren, P. and Mulholland, P. (2020). A comparison of the cognitive difficulties posed by SPARQL query constructs. In: 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020), 16-20 Sep 2020, Bolzano (Italy) (Online). https://oro.open.ac.uk/71853/.
Warren, P. and Mulholland, P. (2018). Using SPARQL – the practitioners’ viewpoint. In: 21st International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2018), 12-16 Nov 2018, Nancy, France. https://oro.open.ac.uk/56546/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Motta, E. (2019). Improving comprehension of Knowledge Representation languages: a case study with Description Logics. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 122 pp. 145–167. https://oro.open.ac.uk/56672/.
Warren, P. (2017). Human Reasoning and Description Logics: Applying Psychological Theory to Understand and Improve the Usability of Description Logics. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/51079/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Motta, E. (2017). Using Insights from Psychology and Language to Improve How People Reason with Description Logics. In: ESWC 2017, 28 May - 1 Jun 2017, Portorož, Slovenia. https://oro.open.ac.uk/51116/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Motta, E. (2015). Making sense of description logics. In: 11th International Conference on Semantic Systems (Semantics 2015), 16-17 Sep 2015, Vienna. https://oro.open.ac.uk/44536/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Motta, E. (2014). Using ontologies: understanding the user experience. In: 19th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2014), 24-28 Nov 2014, Linköping, Sweden. https://oro.open.ac.uk/42113/.
Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Collins, T. and Motta, E. (2014). The usability of description logics: understanding the cognitive difficulties presented by description logics. In: Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC 2014) - Research Track, 25-29 May 2014, Anissaras, Crete. https://oro.open.ac.uk/42011/.
Tech Reports
Ontology patterns: a survey into their use
Techreport ID: kmi-14-02
Date: 2014
Author(s): Paul Warren
Cognition, ontologies and description logics
Techreport ID: kmi-14-03
Date: 2014
Author(s): Paul Warren
Ontology Users' Survey - Summary of Results
Techreport ID: kmi-13-01
Date: 2013
Author(s): Paul Warren
