External Publications

94 publications | Harith Alani

Rowe, M., Stankovic, M., , . and Alani, H. (2012) Who will follow whom? Exploiting Semantics for Link Prediction in Attention-Information Networks, International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, US

Saif, H., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2012) Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Twitter, International Semantic Web Conference, Boston, US

Wagner, C., Rowe, M., Strohmaier, M. and Alani, H. (2012) Ignorance isn't Bliss: An Empirical Analysis of Attention Patterns in Online Communities, 4th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rowe, M. and Alani, H. (2012) What makes Communities Tick? Community Health Analysis using Role Compositions, 4th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Rowe, M., Fernandez, M., Angeletou, S. and Alani, H. (2012) Community Analysis through Semantic Rules and Role Composition Derivation, Journal of Web Semantics

Rowe, M., Fernandez, M., Alani, H., Ronen, I., Hayes, C. and Karnstedt, M. (2012) Behaviour analysis across different types of Enterprise Online Communities, Web Science Conference, Evanston, US

Wagner, C., Rowe, M., Strohmaier, M. and Alani, H. (2012) What catches your attention? An empirical study of attention patterns in community forums, International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, Dublin, Ireland

Burel, G., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2012)  Automatic identification of best answers in online enquiry communities, 9th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2012), Crete, Greece

Saif, H., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2012) Alleviating Data Sparsity for Twitter Sentiment Analysis, Workshop: The 2nd Workshop on Making Sense of Microposts (#MSM2012): Big things come in small packages at World Wide Web (WWW) 2012, Lyon, France

Garcia-Silva, A., Corcho, O., , ., Alani, H. and Gomez-Perez, A. (2012) Review of the state of the art: discovering and associating semantics to tags in folksonomies, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 27, 1, pp. 57-85, 2012 Cambridge University Press

Angeletou, S., Rowe, M. and Alani, H. (2011) Modelling and Analysis of User Behaviour in Online Communities, 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), Bonn, Germany

Rowe, M., Angeletou, S. and Alani, H. (2011) Anticipating Discussion Activity on Community Forums, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Boston, USA

Saif, H., He, Y. and Alani, H. (2011) Semantic Smoothing for Twitter Sentiment Analysis, Poster at The 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Bonn, Germany

He, Y., Lin, C. and Alani, H. (2011) Automatically Extracting Polarity-Bearing Topics for Cross-Domain Sentiment Classification, The 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Portland, Oregon

Rowe, M., Angeletou, S. and Alani, H. (2011) Predicting Discussions on the Social Semantic Web, Extended Semantic Web Conference 2011, Heraklion, Crete

Karnstedt, M., Rowe, M., Chan, J., Alani, H. and Hayes, C. (2011) The Effect of User Features on Churn in Social Networks, ACM Web Science Conference 2011 (WebSci2011), Koblenz, Germany

Shadbolt, N., O'Hara, K., Salvadores, M. and Alani, H. (2011) eGovernment, in eds. John Domingue,Dieter Fensel,James A Hendler, Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies, Springer-Verlag

Aroyo, L., Welty, C., Alani, H., Taylor, J., Bernstein, A., Kagal, L., Noy, N. and Blomqvist, E. (eds.) (2011) The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Springer-Verlag

Aroyo, L., Welty, C., Alani, H., Taylor, J., Bernstein, A., Kagal, L., Noy, N. and Blomqvist, E. (2011) The Semantic Web - ISWC 2011: 10th International Semantic Web Conference, Bonn, Germany, October 23-27, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, Springer-Verlag

Szomszor, M., Kostkova, P., Cattuto, C., Broeck, W., Barrat, A. and Alani, H. (2010) Providing enhanced social interaction services for industry exhibitors at large medical conferences, 3rd International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE '10), London, UK

He, Y., Alani, H. and Zhou, D. (2010) Exploring English Lexicon Knowledge for Chinese Sentiment Analysis, CIPS-SIGHAN Joint Conference on Chinese Language Processing, Beijing, China

Broeck, W., Cattuto, C., Barrat, A., Szomsor, M., Correndo, G. and Alani, H. (2010) The Live Social Semantics application: a platform for integrating face-to-face presence with on-line social networking, Workshop: First International Workshop on Communication, Collaboration and Social Networking in Pervasive Computing Environments (PerCol) at 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010), Mannheim, Germany

Koumenides, C., Salvadores, M., Alani, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2010) Global Integration of Public Sector Information, International Web Science Conference, Raleigh, NC, USA

Szomszor, M., Cattuto, C., Broeck, W., Barrat, A. and Alani, H. (2010) Semantics, Sensors, and the Social Web: The Live Social Semantics experiments, 7th Extended Semantic Web Conference, Crete

Barrat, A., Cattuto, C., Szomszor, M., Broeck, W. and Alani, H. (2010) Social dynamics in conferences: analyses of data from the Live Social Semantics application, ISWC 2010, Shanghai

Alani, H., Szomszor, M., Cattuto, C., Broeck, W., Correndo, G. and Barrat, A. (2009) Live Social Semantics, 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), near Washington DC, USA

Correndo, G., Alani, H. and Salvadores, M. (2009) Social Support for Ontological Mediation and Data Integration, Int. Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, 1, 3, pp. 19-34

Garcia, A., Szomszor, M., Alani, H. and Corcho, O. (2009) Preliminary Results in Tag Disambiguation using DBpedia, Workshop: First International Workshop on Collective Knowledge Capturing and Representation - CKCaR'09 at Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'09), Redondo Beach, California, USA

Correndo, G., Kalfoglou, Y., Smart, P. and Alani, H. (2008) Demo: A community based approach for managing ontology alignments, Demo track of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008), Acitrezza, Catania, Italy

Correndo, G., Kalfoglou, Y., Smart, P. and Alani, H. (2008) Demo: A community based approach for managing ontology alignments, Demo track of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008), Acitrezza, Catania, Italy

Cantador, I., Szomszor, M., Alani, H., Fernandez, M. and Castells, P. (2008) Enriching Ontological User Profiles with Tagging History for Multi-Domain Recommendations, Workshop: 1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics: Collective Intelligence and the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008) at 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain, pp. 5-19

Noy, N., Chugh, A. and Alani, H. (2008) The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23, 1

Alani, H., Hall, W., O'Hara, K., Shadbolt, N., Chandler, P. and Szomszor, M. (2008) Building a Pragmatic Semantic Web, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23, 3, pp. 61-68

Szomszor,, M., Cantador, I. and Alani, H. (2008) Correlating User Profiles from Multiple Folksonomies, ACM Confrence on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Szomszor, M., Alani, H., Cantador, I., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2008) Semantic Modelling of User Interests based on Cross-Folksonomy Analysis, 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Karlsruhe, Germany

Chandler, P., Hall, W., Shadbolt, N., Alani, H. and Szomszor, M. (2008) Advanced knowledge system for coatings and the gas turbine MRO industry, In: International Thermal Spray Conference & Exposition, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Correndo, G. and Alani, H. (2008) Collaborative Support for Community Data Sharing, Workshop: In: The 2nd Workshop on Collective Intelligence in Semantic Web and Social Networks at Web Intelligence, Sydney, Australia

Correndo, G. and Alani, H. (2008) Managing Ontology Alignments, Workshop: In: 3rd International Workshop on Ontology Matching, Karlsruhe, Germany

Correndo, G., Kalfoglou, Y., Smart, P. and Alani, H. (2008) Demo: A Community Based Approach for Managing Ontology Alignments, Demo at Demo track of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008), Acitrezza, Catania, Italy

O'Hara, K., Alani, H., Kalfoglou, Y. and Shadbolt, N. (2008) Features for Killer Apps from a Semantic Web Perspective Agent Systems in Electronic Business, pp. 265-288, Information Science Reference. ISBN 978-159904588-7

Passant, A., Mulvany, I., Mika, P., Maisonneauve, N., Löser, A., Cattuto, C., Bizer, C., Bauckhage, C. and Alani, H. (2008) Mining for Social Serendipity, Workshop: Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Web Communities, Dagstuhl, Germany

Alani, H., Staab, S. and Stumme, G. (2008) Social Web Communities, Workshop: Dagstuhl Seminar on Social Web Communities, Dagstuhl, Germany

Alani, H., Noy, N., Shah, N., Shadbolt, N. and Musen, M. (2007) Searching ontologies based on content: Experiments in the biomedical domain, The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap), Whistler, Canada

Alani, H., Noy, N., Shah, N., Shadbolt, N. and Musen, M. (2007) Searching ontologies based on content: Experiments in the biomedical domain, The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap), Whistler, Canada

Weal, M., Alani, H., Kim, S., Lewis, P., Millard, D., Sinclair, P., Roure, D. and Shadbolt, N. (2007) Ontologies as Facilitators for Repurposing Web Documents, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 65, 6, pp. 537--562

Alani, H., Dupplaw, D., Sheridan, J., O'Hara, K., Darlington, J., Shadbolt, N. and Tullo, C. (2007) Unlocking the Potential of Public Sector Information with Semantic Web Technology, The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Busan, Korea

Potter, S., Kalfoglou, Y., Alani, H., Bachler, M., Buckingham Shum, S., Carvalho, R., Chakravarthy, A., Chalmers, S., Chapman, S., Hu, B., Preece, A., Shadbolt, N., Tate, A. and Tuffield, M. (2007) The Application of Advanced Knowledge Technologies for Emergency Response, 4th International Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 07), Delft, The Netherlands

Noy, N., Chugh, A. and Alani, H. (2007) The CKC Challenge: Exploring Tools for Collaborative Knowledge Construction, Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University Technical report SMI-2007-1260

Szomszor, M., Cattuto, C., Alani, H., O’Hara, K., Baldassarri, A., Loreto, V. and Servedio, V. (2007) Folksonomies, the Semantic Web, and Movie Recommendation, Workshop: Bridging the Gap between Semantic Web and Web 2.0 at 4th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Innsbruck, Austria

Huynh, D. and Alani, H. (2007) Multivariant Information Management and Exploitation - Scenario Specification, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Technical report DTC/WP3.1/Scenario

Alani, H., Noy, N., Shah, N., Shadbolt, N. and Musen, M. (2007) Searching Biomedical Ontologies based on Content, 10th Intl. Protégé Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Correndo, G. and Alani, H. (2007) Survey of tools for collaborative knowledge construction and sharing, Workshop: Workshop on Collective Intelligence on Semantic Web (CISW 2007) at IEEE/WIC/ACM Joint International Conference on Web Intelligence, Fremont, CA, USA

Liang, Y., Alani, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2006) Ontologies change and queries break: Towards a solution, Poster track of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW): Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, Prague, Czech Republic

Alani, H. (2006) Ontology Construction from Online Ontologies, 15th World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland

Alani, H., Brewster, C. and Shadbolt, N. (2006) Ranking Ontologies with AKTiveRank. In: The 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Georgia, USA

Alani, H., Harris, S. and O'Neil, B. (2006) Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use, 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Budva, Montenegro

Hu, B., Kalfoglou, Y., Dupplaw, D., Alani, H., Lewis, P. and Shadbolt, N. (2006) Semantic Metrics, EKAW, Czech Republic

Jones, M. and Alani, H. (2006) Content-based Ontology Ranking, 9th International Protege Conference, Stanford, California

Alani, H. and Brewster, C. (2006) Metrics for Ranking Ontologies, Workshop: 4th Int. EON Workshop at 15th Int. World Wide Web Conf., Edinburgh, Scotland

Alani, H. and Brewster, C. (2005) Ontology Ranking based on the Analysis of Concept Structures, Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap), Banff, Alberta, Canada

Alani, H., Kalfoglou, Y., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Towards a Killer App for the Semantic Web, 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2005), Galway, Ireland

Alani, H., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Common Features of Killer Apps: A Comparison with Protégé, 8th International Protégé Conference, Madrid, Spain

Alani, H., Gibbins, N., Glaser, H., Harris, S. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Monitoring Research Collaborations Using Semantic Web Technologies, 2nd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete, pp. 664-678

Liang, Y., Alani, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Ontology Versioning and Evolution for Semantic Web-Based Applications, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Technical report 9-month progress report

Alani, H., Harris, S. and O'Neil, B. (2005) Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology, In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technology and Internet Commerce., Vienna

Thomas, E., Alani, H., Sleeman, D. and Brewster, C. (2005) Searching and Ranking Ontologies on the Semantic Web, Workshop: Workshop on Ontology Management: Searching, Selection, Ranking, and Segmentation at 3rd Int. Conf. on Knowledge Capture (K-Cap), Banff, Alberta, Canada

Kalfoglou, Y., Alani, H., Schorlemmer, M. and Walton, C. (2004) On the emergent Semantic Web and overlooked issues, In: 3rd International Semantic Web Conference, Hiroshima, Japan

Glaser, H., Alani, H., Carr, L., Chapman, S., Ciravegna, F., Dingli, A., Gibbins, N., Harris, S., schraefel, m. and Shadbolt, N. (2004) CS AKTive Space: Building a Semantic Web Application, First European Web Symposium (ESWS), pp. 417-432

Brewster, C., Alani, H., Dasmahapatra, S. and Wilks, Y. (2004) Data Driven Ontology Evaluation, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Lisbon, Portugal

Cox, S., Alani, H., Glaser, H. and Harris, S. (2004) The Semantic Web as a Semantic Soup, Workshop: 1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend, Social Networking and the Semantic Web, Galway, Ireland

O'Hara, K., Alani, H., Kalfoglou, Y. and Shadbolt, N. (2004) Trust Strategies for the Semantic Web, Workshop: Workshop on Trust, Security, and Reputation on the Semantic Web at 3rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC'04), Hiroshima, Japan

Alani, H., Kim, S., Millard, D., Weal, M., Hall, W., Lewis, P. and Shadbolt, N. (2004) Using Protege for Automatic Ontology Instantiation, 7th International Protégé Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Alani, H., Kim, S., Millard, D., Weal, M., Hall, W., Lewis, P. and Shadbolt, a. (2003) Automatic Ontology-Based Knowledge Extraction from Web Documents, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 18, 1, pp. 14--21

Alani, H., Dasmahapatra, S., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2003) Identifying Communities of Practice through Ontology Network Analysis, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 18, 2, pp. 18--25

Alani, H., Kim, S., Millard, D., Weal, M., Lewis, P., Hall, W. and Shadbolt, N. (2003) Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Web Documents, Workshop: Workshop on Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web abd Web Services at 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

Millard, D., Alani, H., Kim, S., Weal, M., Lewis, P., Hall, W., Roure, D. and Shadbolt, N. (2003) Generating Adaptive Hypertext Content from the Semantic Web, Workshop: 1st International Workshop on Hypermedia and the Semantic Web at HyperText, Nottingham, UK

Alani, H. (2003) TGVizTab: An Ontology Visualisation Extension for Protégé, Workshop: Workshop on Visualization Information in Knowledge Engineering at International Knowledge Capture Conference (K-Cap), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

Alani, H., Kim, S., Millard, D., Weal, M., Hall, W., Lewis, P. and Shadbolt, N. (2003) Web based Knowledge Extraction and Consolidation for Automatic Ontology Instantiation, Workshop: Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation at Knowledge Capture (K-Cap'03), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA.

Alani, H., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2002) ONTOCOPI: Methods and Tools for Identifying Communities of Practice, Workshop: TC12 Stream on Intelligent Information Processing at IFIP 17th World Computer Congress, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Alani, H., Dasmahapatra, S., Gibbins, N., Glaser, H., Harris, S., Kalfoglou, Y., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2002) Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web, In: 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'02), Sigenza, Spain

Alani, H., Kalfoglou, Y., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2002) Initiating Organizational Memories using Ontology-based Network Analysis as a Bootstrapping Tool, Expert Update, 5, 3, pp. 43--53

Kalfoglou, Y., Alani, H., O'Hara, K. and Shadbolt, N. (2002) Initiating Organizational Memories Using Ontology Network Analysis, In: ECAI 2002 Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories, Lyon, France

O'Hara, K., Alani, H. and Shadbolt, N. (2002) Identifying Communities of Practice: Analysing Ontologies as Networks to Support Community Recognition, Workshop: Information Systems: The E-Business Challenge at In: In Proceedings IFIP World Computer Congress, Montreal, Canada

Jones, C., Alani, H. and Tudhope, D. (2002) Geographical Terminology Servers - Closing the Semantic Divide In: Perspectives on Geographic Information Science, pp. 201--218, Taylor and Francis

Middleton, S., Alani, H., Shadbolt, N. and Roure, D. (2002) Exploiting Synergy Between Ontologies and Recommender Systems, In: Semantic Web Workshop 2002 At the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Hawaii, USA

Kim, S., Alani, H., Hall, W., Lewis, P., Millard, D., Shadbolt, N. and Weal, M. (2002) Artequakt: Generating Tailored Biographies from Automatically Annotated Fragments from the Web, Workshop: Workshop on Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup (SAAKM'02) at 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (ECAI'02), Lyon, France

Wills, G., Alani, H., Ashri, R., Crowder, R., Kalfoglou, Y. and Kim, S. (2002) Design Issues for Agent-based Resource Locator Systems, Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management, Vienna

Alani, H., Jones, C. and Tudhope, D. (2001) Voronoi-Based Region Approximation for Geographical Information Retrieval with Gazetteers, International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15, 4, pp. 287--306

Tudhope, D., Alani, H. and Jones, C. (2001) Augmenting thesaurus relationships: possibilities for retrieval, The Journal of Digital Information, 1, 8

Alani, H. (2001) Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems Technical report PhD Thesis

Jones, C., Alani, H. and Tudhope, D. (2001) Geographical Information Retrieval with Ontologies of Place, Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Foundations of Geographic Information Science (COSIT), Morro Bay, CA, USA, pp. 322-335

Alani, H., Jones, C. and Tudhope, D. (2001) Associative and Spatial Relationships in Thesaurus-based Retrieval, Proc. 4 th European Conf. on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 45-58

Alani, H., Jones, C. and Tudhope, D. (2000) Ontology-Driven Geographical Information Retrieval, International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience), Georgia, USA

Alani, H., Jones, C. and Tudhope, D. (2000) Thesaural and Spatial Knowledge in Cultural Heritage Information Retrieval Systems, Proceedings 8th Annual GIS Research Conference (GISRUK 2000), York, UK