Alumni Member
Maria Vargas-Vera (Alumni) 
Research Fellow
I received my PhD from The Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, Scotland UK.
I worked on the AKT Project (Advanced Knowledge Technologies). In particular, I worked in Information Extraction from text using domain specific templates, Ontology-Driven Question Answering, Automated Assessment of Student Essays and Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from text.
I currently work in MCT http://www.computing.open.ac.uk/People/m.vargas-vera
Keys: Information Extraction, Question Answering, Automated Assessment, Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies from text and Ontology mapping.
News
Publications
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2005). Ontology Mapping with domain specific agents in the AQUA Question Answering System. In: The 2nd Annual European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC05), 29 May - 1 Jun 2005, Heraklion, Greece. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23668/.
Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E., Domingue, J., Lanzoni, M., Stutt, A. and Ciravegna, F. (2002). MnM: ontology driven tool for semantic markup. In: Workshop on Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup at The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002), 22-26 Jul 2002, Lyon, France. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28525/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006). Similarity mapping with uncertainty for knowledge management of heterogeneous scientific databases in a distributed ontology-mapping framework. In: The 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge management (EKAW 2006), 02-06 Oct 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28515/.
Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E., Domingue, J., Buckingham Shum, S. and Lanzoni, M. (2001). Knowledge extraction by using an ontology-based annotation tool. In: Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (K -CAP 2001 Workshop), 21 Oct 2001, Victoria, B.C., Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23347/.
Vargas-Vera, M., Domingue, J., Kalfoglou, Y., Motta, E. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2001). Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies. In: IJCAI'01 Workshop on Ontology Learning, 4 Aug 2001, Seattle, WA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23337/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006). DSSim-ontology mapping with uncertainty. In: 1st International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2006), 5 Nov 2006, Athens, GA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23614/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006). Uncertainty handling in the context of ontology mapping for question answering. In: AAAI-2006 Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition., 12-15 Oct 2006, Arlington, VA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23621/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2005). Multi agent ontology mapping framework in the AQUA question answering system. In: Gelbukh, Alexander; de Albornoz, Alvaro and Terashima-Marín, Hugo eds. MICAI 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey, Mexico, November 14-18, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (3789). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 70–79. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23671/.
Kalfoglou, Y., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Vargas-Vera, M. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2001). myPlanet: an ontology driven Web based personalised news service. Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2001 pp. 44–52. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23339/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007). Uncertain reasoning for creating ontology mapping on the Semantic Web. In: Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW 2007), 12 Nov 2007, Busan, Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23576/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007). DSSim - managing uncertainty on the Semantic Web. In: The 2nd International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2007), 11 Nov 2007, Busan, South Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23598/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007). Uncertain reasoning in multi-agent ontology mapping on the Semantic Web. In: 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2007), 04-10 Nov 2007, Aguascalientes, Mexico. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23604/.
Vargas-Vera, M., Moreale, E., Stutt, A., Motta, E. and Ciravegna, F. (2007). MnM: semi-automatic ontology population from text. In: Sharman, Raj; Kishore, Rajiv and Ramesh, Ram eds. Ontologies : A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems. Integrated Series in Information Systems (14). New York: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, pp. 373–402. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23626/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008). Introducing fuzzy trust for managing belief conflict over semantic web data. In: 4th International Workshop on Uncertain Reasoning on the Semantic Web at The 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2008), 26-30 Oct 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23487/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008). Feasible uncertain reasoning for multi agent ontology mapping. In: IADIS International Conference Informatics 2008, 22-27 Jul 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23493/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008). Multi agent trust for belief combination on the semantic web. In: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2008), 28-30 Aug 2008, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23491/.
Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008). Managing conflicting beliefs with fuzzy trust on the Semantic Web. In: The 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008), 27-31 Oct 2008, Mexico City, Mexico. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23486/.
Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2004). AQUA - Ontology-based question answering system. In: 3rd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 26-30 Apr 2004, Mexico City, Mexico. https://oro.open.ac.uk/19296/.
Nagy, M., Motta, E. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2007). Multi-agent ontology mapping with uncertainty on the Semantic Web. In: IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, 6-8 Sep 2007, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. https://oro.open.ac.uk/15643/.
Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E. and Domingue, J. (2003). AQUA: an ontology driven question answering system. In: AAAI Spring Symposium, New Directions in Question Answering, 24-26 Mar 2003, Stanford University, CA, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/2996/.
