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

 Alessia Pisu

AI-Driven Ontology extraction of Research Areas

This event will take place on Wednesday 13 December 2023

Alessia Pisu - University of Cagliari

Ontologies are essential tools for structuring and collecting human knowledge. They enable the identification and description of concepts concerning a specific topic.
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My research focuses on the socio-technical factors influencing the design and uptake of Collective Intelligence infrastructures. These are online environments which seek to improve collective...

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Joining the OU in the Spring of 1992, my initial projects were related to the transcription of course material for print-disabled students. I was a founding member of KMi when it was launched in...

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Publications

Meloni, A., Angioni, S., Salatino, A., Osborne, F., Birukou, A., Recupero, D. and Motta, E. (2023) AIDA-Bot 2.0: Enhancing Conversational Agents with Knowledge Graphs for Analysing the Research Landscape The Semantic Web - ISWC 2023, eds. Terry R., et al Payne, 14265, Springer Cham

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Buscaldi, D., Dessí, D., Motta, E., Murgia, M., Osborne, F. and Recupero, D. (2023) Citation prediction by leveraging transformers and natural language processing heuristics, Information Processing & Management, 61, Elsevier

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Larasati, R., De Liddo, A. and Motta, E. (2023) Meaningful Explanation Effect on User's Trust in an AI Medical System: Designing Explanations for Non-Expert Users, ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, pp. (Early Access)

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