Member
Petr Knoth
Professor of Data Science
+44 (0)1908 654548
Petr Knoth is Professor of Data Science at the Knowledge Media institute, The Open University. He leads the Big Scientific Data and Text Analytics Group (BSDTAG) which conducts research and develops new technologies powered by AI in the area of the machine processing of scientific information. He is the Founder and Head of CORE (core.ac.uk), a large not-for-profit full text indexing system for open access papers with millions of monthly active users. CORE makes research papers available for people to freely discover and access, and for machines to text-mine.
In this capacity, Petr has been involved in numerous knowledge exchange cooperations with enterprises, funders and not-for-profit organisations, supporting a wide variety of use cases requiring scalable access to research content.
Petr has a deep interest in the use of AI to improve research workflows. He has been involved as a researcher and as a PI in over 25 European Commission, national and international funded research projects in the areas of NLP, AI, Open Science and Technology Enhanced Learning.
Keys: Natural Language Processing, Text and data mining Open Access, Open Science, Scholarly communication Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Recommendation systems, Scientometrics
Team: Valeriy Budko, Matteo Cancellieri, Viktoriia Pavlenko, David Pride, Anton Zhuk
Projects
Technologies
Frictionless Data Exchange Across Research Data, Software and Scientific Paper Repositories
News
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Publications
Knoth, P., Lopez, P., Laurent, R., Cosmo, R., Smrz, P., Umerle, T., Harrison, M., Monteil, A., Cancellieri, M. and Pride, D. (2024) Making Software FAIR: A machine-assisted workflow for the research software lifecycle, 19th International Conference on Open Repositories (OR2024), Göteborg, Sweden
Knoth, P., Klein, M., Macgregor, G., Cancellieri, M. and Walk, P. (2024) How to make repository content indexed and discoverable, The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, Göteborg, Sweden
George, M., Knoth, P., Walk, P., Dowson, N., Eadie, M., Jones, B. and Martínez-García, A. (2024) Exploring the concept of 'custodianship' in harvesting repository resources and graphing their relations: Rioxx version 3.0, The 19th International Conference on Open Repositories, Göteborg, Sweden
Kusa, W., Mendoza, O., Samwald, M., Knoth, P. and Hanbury, A. (2024) CSMED: Bridging the Dataset Gap in Automated Citation Screening for Systematic Literature Reviews, 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023): Track on Datasets and Benchmarks., New Orleans, USA.
Kusa, W., Knoth, P. and Hanbury, A. (2023) CRUISE-Screening: Living Literature Reviews Toolbox, CIKM '23: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Birmingham, UK
