KMi is a diverse and multidisciplinary R&D lab that has been at the forefront of innovation since 1995, conducting research in computing technologies for social and environmental good. Our research spans Semantic Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Media, Social Data Science, Scholarly Data, Blockchain, Citizen Science, Collective Intelligence, Smart Cities, and others.

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Upcoming Seminar

Prof Dene Grigar

Electronic Literature: The challenges of born-digital fiction

This event will take place on Tuesday 01 April 2025

Prof Dene Grigar - Washington State University Vancouver

How can early interactive novels, hypertext fictions and narratives be maintained and kept accessible? These forms of born-digital literature were produced before or shortly after the...

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People

Namrata Londhe - Photograph

Joined OU as web developer from July 2021, my day-to-day activities involved working on accessibility projects, styling and developing new and existing websites.

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Martin Hlosta - Photograph

I am a Visiting Research Fellow. Currenlty at Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences (Fernfachhochschule Schweiz – FFHS) - The Institute for Research in Open, Distance and eLearning...

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"If you are or want to be a brilliant mind, this is where you want to be!"

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Raphaël Troncy, EURECOM: Graduate School & Research Center, France

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"Top location for SW research for decades and going strong!"

Pascal Hitzler, Kansas State University, USA

Publications

Motta, E., Osborne, F., Pulici, M., Salatino, A. and Naja, I. (2024) Capturing the Viewpoint Dynamics in the News Domain, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW-24), Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Brown, V., Larasati, R., Third, A. and Farrell, T. (2024) A Qualitative Study on Cultural Hegemony and the Impacts of AI, AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, San Jose, CA, USA

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Reyero Lobo, P., Daga, E., Alani, H. and Fernandez, M. (2024) Enhancing Hate Speech Annotations with Background Semantics, 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2024) – Including 13th Conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2024), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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