The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) was set up in 1995 in recognition of the need for The Open University to be at the forefront of research and development in a convergence of areas that impacted on the OU's very nature: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Technologies, and Multimedia. We chose to call this convergence Knowledge Media.
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I am interested in understanding the difficulties people experience in creating and using description logic based ontologies, and in using insights from cognitive science to reduce those...
In KMi, I work on OU Analyse Project, which is focused on improving student retention at Open University using machine learning techniques.
Publications
Charalampous, A. and Knoth, P. (2017) Classifying document types to enhance search and recommendations in digital libraries, 21st International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Thessaloniki, Greece
Knoth, P., Gooch, P. and Jack, K. (2017) What Others Say About This Work? Scalable Extraction of Citation Contexts from Research Papers, 21st International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Thessaloniki, Greece
Pride, D. and Knoth, P. (2017) Incidental or influential? - Challenges in automatically detecting citation importance using publication full texts, 21st International Conference on Theory and Practise of Digital Libraries (TPDL), Thessaloniki, Greece
Future Seminars
Mining MOOCs to assist second language learners
This event will take place on Thursday 28 September 2017
Prof Ian Witten - University of Waikato
MOOCs claim to offer access to affordable, quality education to
Recent Seminars
Gianluca Bardaro
Robot capabilities and models or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robotics
This event took place on Friday 14 July 2017
Mr Renato Cortinovis
Supporting the discoverability of Open Educational Resources
This event took place on Monday 26 June 2017
Douglas Schuler
Civic Intelligence in Uncertain and Threatening Times
This event took place on Friday 23 June 2017
Marilena Daquino
Data provenance and trustworthiness assessment in photo archives
This event took place on Wednesday 31 May 2017
