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.
Announcements
Invasion of Ukraine
In line with the majority of people around the world, we at KMi are shocked and appalled by the war in Ukraine, and the irreversible tragedies it is causing. While individual actions may seem insignificant, we strongly believe it is important to join the collective stand in asking the governments of the Russian Federation and Belarus to stop this needless deadly undertaking, resume meaningful peace talks, and save the lives of Ukrainians and Russians alike.
Being aware of the impact of Russian and Belarusian state-financed misinformation campaigns, we call on the Russian and Belarusian academic communities urging them to release public statements of solidarity with Ukraine, reject this war, and to protect and encourage those brave Russians and Belarusian who protest.
Some of our close collaborators have been caught up in this tragic episode, which makes it deeply personal for us.
Below we list a number of links where you can read other statements and contribute to help.
Verified Links
- Letter: Moscow State University Condemns the War in Ukraine: https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/letter-moscow-state-university-condemns-the-war-in-ukraine/
- UNHCR have the following suggestions including an opportunity to donate in support of refugees and humanitarian assistance: https://www.unrefugees.org.uk/take-action/how-to-help-ukraine
- Collecting medical supplies - https://twitter.com/svakulenk0/status/1497694919967883265
- Labs volunteering to host Ukranian scientists https://twitter.com/Hlashuel/status/1497978917512089602?s=20&t=MCZ5JE_oYHkOBJKL-eSTtA
- Open letter from brave Russian colleague scientists condemning the war: https://www.eureporter.co/world/russia/2022/02/24/an-open-letter-from-russian-scientists-and-science-journalists-against-the-war-with-ukraine/
- In russian with signatures: https://trv-science.ru/2022/02/we-are-against-war/?fbclid=IwAR0oPBDG51Fka32CC7a1fP-K3eLJe7_7_4ttJ3iKaJor9d4J5zMh1gwWQTk
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Agnese is a PhD Student at the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), the Open University, UK. Her research focuses on combining Knowledge technologies with Machine Learning to enhance the robots' ability...
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Publications
Sharma, N., Siddharthan, A., Colucci-Gray, L. and Wal, R. (2022) Consensus building in on-line citizen science, 25th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW 2022), Online
Bongini, P., Osborne, F., Pedrazzoli, A. and Rossolini, M. (2022) A topic modelling analysis of white papers in security token offerings: Which topic matters for funding?, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 184
Angioni, S., Salatino, A.A., Osborne, F., Birukou, A., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2022) Leveraging Knowledge Graph Technologies to Assess Journals and Conferences at Springer Nature, 21st International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2022, Hangzhou, China
Future Seminars
Relevance Models based on the Knowledge Gap
This event will take place on Wednesday 02 November 2022
Yasin Ghafourian - Vienna University of Technology
Search systems are increasingly used for gaining knowledge through accessing relevant resources from a vast volume of content. However, search systems provide only limited support to users in...
Recent Seminars
Alba Morales - KMi, The Open University
Health condition evolution for effective use of electronic records: knowledge representation, acquisition, and reasoning
This event took place on Thursday 27 October 2022
Fiorela Ciroku - University of Bologna
Reverse engineering of an ontology: Extracting competency questions from knowledge graphs
This event took place on Friday 21 October 2022
Rishabh Upadhyay - Universitą degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Domain-Specific Genuine Information Retrieval
This event took place on Thursday 20 October 2022
Angel Pavon Perez - Knowledge Media Institute
Tracking bias creep in machine learning with covariance analysis
This event took place on Wednesday 12 October 2022
