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Alba Morales Tirado
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Alba Morales is a postdoctoral researcher at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. Her current research activities are linked to the Polifonia European Project, being the leader of the MEETUPS Pilot and investigating hybrid methods for the generation of Knowledge Graphs.
She completed her PhD in the fall of 2022, entitled "Health Condition Evolution for Effective Use of Electronic Records: Knowledge Representation, Acquisition, and Reasoningâ€. Her research set out to improve how data can be used to support Smart Cities services. During her research work, she studied how to support the identification of relevant health information about people involved in an emergency, such as a fire evacuation. During her PhD, Alba designed the "Health Condition Evolution Ontology (HECON)" and extended the SNOMED concept taxonomy to incorporate information of health event evolution. Furthermore, she designed a "methodology for generating a Knowledge Graph of health condition evolution" from natural language resources, combined with a human-in-the-loop workflow. She then applied "the knowledge graph for reasoning on health condition evolution" for detecting vulnerable people in emergency settings. Finally, an end-to-end demonstrator, "the Condition Evolution Radar (CONRAD)", shows how such methods can effectively support decision-making in an emergency scenario.
Alba's previous experience includes working in public and private sectors as an Information Security Specialist for several years, specialised in auditing Industrial Control Systems. She has a master's degree in Information Security and Audit from the University of Greenwich.
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Team: Jason Carvalho, Enrico Daga, Enrico Motta
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Publications
Fernandez, M., Morales Tirado, A.C., Pavon-Perez, A., Duddin, K., Zhang, M., Bakina, K., Bandara, A., Capdevila, R., Lazard, L. and Jurasz, O. (2025). Co-creating an Ontology of Online Gender-Based Harms: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. In: ISWC 2025 - The 24th International Semantic Web Conference, 02-06 Nov 2025, Nara, Japan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/105569/.
Daga, E., Carvalho, J. and Morales Tirado, A. (2024). Extracting licence information from web resources with a Large Language Model. In: 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Technologies and Deep Learning Models for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data, 26-27 May 2024, Heraklion, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/97612/.
Morales Tirado, A., Carvalho, J., Ratta, M., Uwasomba, C., Mulholland, P., Barlow, H., Herbert, T. and Daga, E. (2024). Musical Meetups Knowledge Graph (MMKG): a collection of evidence for historical social network analysis. In: ESWC 2024: The 21st Extended Semantic Web Conference, 26-30 May 2024, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/96738/.
Morales Tirado, A., Carvalho, J., Mulholland, P. and Daga, E. (2023). Musical Meetups: a Knowledge Graph approach for Historical Social Network Analysis. In: ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials. Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES), 28-29 May 2023, Hersonissos, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/88720/.
Morales Tirado, A.C. (2023). Health Condition Evolution for Effective Use of Electronic Records: Knowledge Representation, Acquisition, and Reasoning. [Thesis] https://oro.open.ac.uk/87042/.
Morales Tirado, A.C., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2022). Towards a Knowledge Graph of Health Evolution. In: 23rd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 26-29 Sep 2022, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/84675/.
Morales Tirado, A., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2022). CONRAD - Health Condition Radar: an Intelligent System for Emergency Support. In: SeWeBMeDA-2022: Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics co-event with The ESWC 2022: Extended Semantic Web Conference, 29 May - 02 Jun 2022, Hersonissos, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/83006/.
Morales Tirado, A., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2022). HECON: Health Condition Evolution Ontology. In: Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Semantic Web solutions for large-scale biomedical data analytics co-event with The ESWC 2022: Extended Semantic Web Conference, 29 May - 02 Jun 2022, Hersonissos, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/82950/.
Morales Tirado, A.C., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2021). Reasoning on health condition evolution for enhanced detection of vulnerable people in emergency settings. In: K-CAP '21: Proceedings of the 11th on Knowledge Capture Conference, 2-3 Dec 2021, Virtual Event, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/79866/.
Morales Tirado, A., Oelen, A., Pasqual, V., Shi, M., Umbrico, A., Xu, W. and Celino, I. (2020). A human-in-the-loop framework to handle implicit bias in crowdsourced KGs. In: ISWS International Semantic Web Research Summer School 2019, 30 Jun - 31 Jul 2019, Bertinoro, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/75594/.
Morales Tirado, A., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2020). Effective use of personal health records to support emergency services. In: EKAW 2020 - 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 16-18 Sep 2020, Bolzano, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/72072/.
Morales Tirado, A., Daga, E. and Motta, E. (2019). Towards a privacy aware information system for emergency response. In: 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 19-22 May 2019, Valencia, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/67550/.
