External Publications
72 publications | Victoria Uren
Lopez, V., Uren, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2011) Is Question Answering fit for the Semantic Web? A Survey, Journal of Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, In Press
Fernandez, M., Zhang, Z., Lopez, V., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2011) Ontology Augmentation: combining Semantic Web and Text Resources, 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), Banff, Alberta, Canada
Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rueger, S. (2011) An Information Foraging Theory Based User Study of an Adaptive User Interaction Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval, Special Session: Interactive Image and Video Retrieval, The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM2011), Taipei, Taiwan, Springer
Uren, V., Sabou, M., Motta, E., Fernandez, M., Lopez, V. and Lei, Y. (2010) Reflections on Five Years of Evaluating Semantic Search Systems, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), 5, 2, pp. 87-98
Lopez, V., Nikolov, A., Sabou, M., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2010) Scaling up Question-Answering to Linked Data, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW-2010), Lisboa, Portugal
Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rueger, S. (2010) Applying Information Foraging Theory to Understand User Interaction with Content-based Image Retrieval, The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX2010), New Brunswick, NJ, USA, pp. 135-144, ACM
Nikolov, A., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2010) Data Linking: Capturing and Utilising Implicit Schema-level Relations, Workshop: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2010) at 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Raleigh, USA
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2009) Overcoming Schema Heterogeneity between Linked Semantic Repositories to Improve Coreference Resolution, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), Shanghai, China
Liu, H., Zagorac, S., Uren, V., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2009) Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-Based Image Retrieval, The 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2009), Sapporo, Japan, pp. 265-276, Springer
Ullmann, T., Uren, V. and Nikolov, A. (2009) The SemSearchXplorer - Exploring Semantic Search Results with Semantic Visualizations, Workshop: AST 2009 - Applications of Semantic Technologies at the Informatik 2009, Luebeck, Germany. Informatik 2009 - Im Focus das Leben. GI Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics, eds. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.; Fischer, Stefan; Maehle, Erik; Reischuk, Rüdiger, Köllen Verlag.
Lopez, V., Nikolov, A., Fernandez, M., Sabou, M., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2009) Merging and Ranking Answers in the Semantic Web: The Wisdom of Crowds (Best Paper Award), The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China
Liu, H., Uren, V., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2009) A Four-factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval, The 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR2009), Cambridge, UK, pp. 297-304, Springer
Lopez, V., Sabou, M., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2009) Cross-Ontology Question Answering on the Semantic Web -an initial evaluation, Knowledge Capture Conference, 2009, California
Fernandez, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E., Sabou, M., Uren, V., Vallet, D. and Castells, P. (2009) Using TREC for cross-comparison between classic IR and ontology-based search models at a Web scale, Workshop: Semantic search workshop at 18th International World Wide Web Conference, Madrid, Spain
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2009) Towards data fusion in a multi-ontology environment, Workshop: Linked Data on the Web at 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), Madrid, Spain
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Refining instance coreferencing results using belief propagation, 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Bangkok, Thailand
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Integration of semantically annotated data by the KnoFuss architecture, 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008), Acitrezza, Italy
Fernandez, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E., Sabou, M., Uren, V., Vallet, D. and Castells, P. (2008) Semantic Search meets the Web, International Conference Semantic Computing (ICSC 08), Santa Clara, USA
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I, eds. Paulo C.G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Ken Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Matthias Nickles, Mike Pool
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture, Workshop: Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web at 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain
Uren, V., Lei, Y. and Motta, E. (2008) SemSearch: refining semantic search, Demo at ESWC, Tenerife
Liu, H., Song, D., Rueger, S., Hu, R. and Uren, V. (2008) Comparing Dissimilarity Measures for Content-based Image Retrieval, The 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2008), Harbin, China, pp. 44-50, Springer
Uren, V., Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Liu, H., Motta, E. and Giordanino, M. (2007) The usability of semantic search tools: a review, Knowledge Engineering Review, 22, 4, pp. 361-377
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2007) Using the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence to Resolve ABox Inconsistencies, Workshop: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web at ISWC 2007, Busan, Korea
Lopez, V., Fernandez, M., Motta, E., Sabou, M., Uren, V. and , . (2007) Question Answering on the Real Semantic Web, Demo at 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2007) KnoFuss: A Comprehensive Architecture for Knowledge Fusion, Poster at K-CAP 2007, Whistler, Canada
Zhu, J., Eisenstadt, M., Gonçalves, A., Denham, C., Uren, V. and Song, D. (2007) Social Search With Missing Data: Which Ranking Algorithm?, Journal of Digital Information Management special issue on Web Information Retrieval, eds. Pit.Pichappan, Keith van Rijsbergen, and Iadh Ounis, Digital Information Research Foundation
Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2007) SemEval: A Framework for Evaluating Semantic Metadata, The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP 2007, Whistler, BC
Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2007) Entity Association Discovery in Organizational Information Space, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, Hong Kong, China
Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2007) Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, Hong Kong, China, IEEE
Lopez, V., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pasin, M. (2007) AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets, Journal of Web Semantics, 5, 2, pp. 72-105, Elsevier
Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2007) An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals, Journal of Web Engineering, 2007, 6, 4
Zhu, J., Gonçalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Eisenstadt, M. and Song, D. (2007) Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, 5, 4, IOS Press
Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Li, G., Sereno, B. and Mancini, C. (2007) Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, (Special Issue on Computational Models of Natural Argument), 22, 1, pp. 17-47, kmi Technical report 04-28
Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2007) SemRef: An Evaluation Refererence Model for Semantic Metadata, Poster at 4th European Semantic Web Conference
Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) Semantic Search Components: a blueprint for effective query language interfaces, EKAW 2006 - 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, Podebrady, Czech Republic
Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web, 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (EKAW 2006), Podebrady, Czech Republic
Nanas, N., Uren, V. and Roeck, A. (2006) Immune-Inspired Adaptive Information Filtering Artificial Immune Systems, LNCS 4163/2006, pp. 418-431, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Goncalves, A., Zhu, J., Song, D., Uren, V. and Pacheco, R. (2006) LRD: Latent Relation Discovery for Vector Space Expansion and Information Retrieval, Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 7th International Conference, WAIM 2006, June 17-19, 2006. LNCS 4016/2006, Hong Kong, China, pp. 122 - 133, Springer Verlag
Lei, Y., Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Zhu, J., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata, the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro
Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006) AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web, HLT-NAACL 2006 - Demo session, New York
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2006) Measuring similarity for fusing extracted knowledge, Workshop: 9th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium, Milton Keynes, UK, pp. 33-40
Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Li, G., Sereno, B. and Mancini, C. (2006) Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Special issue on Computational Models of Natural Argument)
Uren, V., Buckingham Shum, S., Bachler, M. and Li, G. (2006) Sensemaking Tools for Understanding Research Literatures: Design, Implementation and User Evaluation, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 64, 5, pp. 420-445
Uren, V., Cimiano, P., Hanndschuh, S., Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E. and Ciravegna, F. (2006) Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: Requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art, Journal of Web Semantics, 4, 1
Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006) Ontology Selection: Ontology Evaluation on the Real Semantic Web, Workshop: Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web (EON 2006) at 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh
Damle, D., Uren, V., DeRoeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2005) Identifying Important Words For Semi-automatically Building Ontologies From Natural Language Text, 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05), Pune, India
Damle, D. and Uren, V. (2005) Extracting significant words from corpora for ontology extraction (poster), International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP 05, Banff, Canada
Uren, V., Motta, E., Dzbor, M. and Cimiano, P. (2005) Browsing for Information by Highlighting Automatically Generated Annotations: A User Study and Evaluation, 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Banff, Canada
Zhu, J., Gonçalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pacheco, R. (2005) CORDER: COmmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition, Poster at International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Banff, Canada Proceedings of Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K Cap'2005), pp. 219-220, ACM
Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pacheco, R. (2005) Mining Web Data for Competency Management, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, France Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2005 (WI'2005), eds. Andrzej Skowron, Rakesh Agrawal, Michael Luck, Takahira Yamaguchi, Pierre Morizet-Mahoudeaux, Jiming Liu, Ning Zhong, pp. 94-100, IEEE Computer Society
Zhu, J., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2005) ESpotter: Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing, Professional Knowledge Management Conference (WM2005), Kaiserslautern, Germany Proceedings of Professional Knowledge Management Conference (WM 2005), eds. Klaus Dieter Althoff Andreas Dengel Ralph Bergmann Markus Nick Thomas Roth Berghofer, pp. 518-529, Springer Verlag LNAI
Gonçalves, A., Uren, V., Kern, V. and Pacheco, R. (2005) Mining Knowledge from Textual Databases: An Approach using Ontology based Context Vectors, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Innsbruck, Austria
Uren, V., Zhu, J. and Goncalves, A. (2005) Applying Mined Social Networks to Knowledge Management Scenarios, AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin
Zhu, J., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2004) ESpotter: A Prototype System for Adaptive Named Entity Recognition Supporting Web Browsing, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW'2004), Springer-Verlag
Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2004) Lexicon Generation by Extraction of Context Patterns, Workshop: Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes at 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management EKAW 2004, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK
Nanas, N., Uren, V., Roeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2004) An Autopoietic Term Network capable of Personalised Document Evaluation, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS), Catania, Italy
Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Mancini, C. and Li, G. (2004) Computer Supported Collaborative Modelling of Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures, Workshop: Computational Models of Natural Argument at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Valencia, Spain
Zhu, J., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2004) ESpotter: A Prototype System for Adaptive Named Entity Recognition Supporting Web Browsing, Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext'04), Santa Cruz, USA Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext'04)
Uren, V., Buckingham Shum, S., Mancini, C. and Li, G. (2004) Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures, Workshop: 4th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument at ECAI 2004, Valencia, Spain
Dzbor, M., Motta, E., Uren, V., Lei, Y. and Domingue, J. (2004) Reflection on the future of knowledge portals, SIGSEMIS Bulletin, 1, 2, Association For Information Systems
Nanas, N., Uren, V., Roeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2004) Beyond TREC's Filtering Track, International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Proceedings International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Nanas, N., Uren, V., Roeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2004) Multi Topic Information Filtering with a Single User Profile, 3rd Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Samos
Uren, V., Sereno, B., Buckingham Shum, S. and Li, G. (2003) Interfaces for capturing interpretations of research literature, Workshop: Distributed and CollectiveKnowledge Capture Workshop at Knowledge Capture Conference, Florida, USA
Stix, V. and Uren, V. (2003) Semantic Structuring of Concepts found in Scholarly Literature: An Empirical Study using a Fuzzy Clustering Approach, SCI 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA Proceedings SCI 2003, IIIS
Nanas, N., Uren, V., Roeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2003) Building and Applying a Concept Hierarchy Representation of a User Profile, ACM /SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Li, G., Domingue, J. and Motta, E. (2003) Visualizing Internetworked Argumentation, in eds. Paul A Kirschner Simon Buckingham Shum Chad S Carr, Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense Making, Springer Verlag
Uren, V., Buckingham Shum, S., Li, G., Domingue, J. and Motta, E. (2003) Scholarly Publishing and Argument in Hyperspace, Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference, Budapest, Hungary Proceedings Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference
Li, G., Uren, V., Motta, E., Buckingham Shum, S. and Domingue, J. (2002) ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers, 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002)
Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Li, G., Domingue, J., Motta, E. and Mancini, C. (2002) Designing Representational Coherence into an Infrastructure for Collective Sensemaking, Workshop: International Workshop on Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices, San Diego, US
Uren, V. and Addis, T. (2002) How weak text categorizers based upon different principles can strengthen performance, the computer journal, 45, pp. 511 524
Uren, V. (2001) Combining text categorizers (PhD thesis), eds. University of Portsmouth
