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

 Dr Michele Pasin, Dr Joerg Sixt

Performing Research Analytics at Scale: the Dimensions Reporting Platform

This event will take place on Tuesday 13 May 2025

Dr Michele Pasin, Dr Joerg Sixt - Digital Science

In this presentation we will introduce Dimensions’ state-of-the-art dataset for research analytics, provide examples of its applications and show how it can be used to experiment with...

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Suchetha N. Kunnath - Photograph

Suchetha is a research associate at KMi, part of the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) team: http://bsdtag.kmi.open.ac.uk/. She finished her PhD on "Language Models for Citation...

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I am one of the Systems & Network Administrators in the Systems team here at KMi. My role is to provide support for the department's I.T. infrastructure, including Windows, Linux, networking, server...

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Publications

Tsaneva, S., Dessì, D., Osborne, F. and Sabou, M. (2025) Knowledge graph validation by integrating LLMs and human-in-the-loop, Information Processing & Management, 62, Elsevier

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Coughlan, T., Rienties, B., Domingue, J., Herodotou, C., Ullmann, T., Bektik, D., Edwards, C., Whitelock, D., Coughlan, E. and Tessarolo, F. (2025) Holding a lead, or the tail wagging the dog? Exploring educator influence over the behaviour of AI Digital Assistants, EDEN 2025 Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy

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Mikroyannidis, A. and Armakolas, S. (2025) Using Generative AI to Enhance Personalised and Self-Regulated Learning, EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2025, Barcelona, Spain

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