Tech Report
The Use of Ontologies for Improving Image Retrieval and Annotation
Nowadays, digital photography is a common technology for capturing and archiving images due to the falling price of storage devices and the wide availability of digital cameras. Without efficient retrieval methods the search of images in large collections is becoming a painstaking work. Most of the traditional image search engines rely on keyword-based annotations because they lack the ability to examine image content. However, “a picture is worth a thousand words”, this means that up to a...read more
A Process Memory Platform to Support Participatory Planning and Deliberation
The communicative turn in planning theory argues that knowledge in planning is a social construction, emphasizing that knowledge is built in social contexts, by a plurality of actors, through their interactions. This new understanding of knowledge is built around the need of plurality of reasons and voices to inform and legitimate planning actions. However this knowledge is often difficult to capture and integrate within the wider knowledge base that planners generate in the planning process....read more
Semantic Enrichment of Folksonomies
The goal of this research is to explore the potential of combining the heterogeneous technologies of Semantic Web and Web2.0 in order to contribute to an open and intelligent World Wide Web. This document is the second year research report of this PhD study on integrating Web2.0 and the Semantic Web.read more
Probabilistic Methods for Data Integration in a Multi-Agent Query Answering System
This report describes the progress that has been achieved during the second year (full time equivalent 1 July 2006 - 1 July 2008) of our Ph.D. research. All the work has been built upon the achievements of the first year and confirmed that the original research objectives were correctly identified at the beginning of the research. We have successfully participated in the Ontology Mapping Evaluation Initiative 2006 and 2007 (2008 ongoing activity), which provided a qualitative...read more
Evolva: Towards Automatic Ontology Evolution
Ontologies form the core of Semantic Web systems, and as such, they need to evolve to meet the changing needs of the system and its users. Information is exponentially increasing in organizations' intranets as well as on the web, especially with the increased popularity of tools facilitating content generation such as wikis, blogs and social software. In such dynamic environments, evolving ontologies should be agile, i.e. with the least knowledge experts' input, for reflecting fast changes...read more
Modelling social context to improve online multimedia search
As the cost of production, storage and dissemination has plummeted for images, audio and video, challenges have arisen regarding how to most e?ectively handle this wealth of information. Digital recording devices have become cheaper, more widely available and are able to recording in better quality than ever before. Media representation has given us lossy and lossless file formats suitable for many different situations, from satellite broadcast to mobile streaming, each with their unique...read more
Designing the Ontological Foundations for Knowledge Domain Analysis Technology: An Interim Report
Research into tools to support both quantitative and qualitative analysis of specialist knowledge domains has been undertaken within the two broadly independent traditions of Bibliometrics and Knowledge Management. The ‘knowledge domain analysis’ (KDA) tools within the first tradition follow a citation-based approach to representing knowledge domains and use citation links as the basis for identifying patterns in the relationships among authors and publications. KDA tools within the second,...read more
ID: kmi-08-02
Date: 2008
Author(s): Neil Benn, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue, Clara Mancini
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From Aristotle to Gabriel: A Summary of the Narratology Literature for Story Technologies
This purpose of this report is to provide a practical guide for story technologists. The report is organised in two parts. In the first part we explore, more or less chronologically, past and contemporary story models and in the second part we look at more recent theories and implementations examined in a story-making context.
In recent years there has been resurgence of interest in the both the medium and message of the story. However, we shall confine our discussion to...read more
