Alumni Member
Victoria Uren (Alumni) 
Senior Research Fellow
I worked on knowledge management projects that use semantic web technologies.
Keys: knowledge management, ontologies, semantic web, human computer interaction
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Publications
Dadzie, A.S., Uren, V., Miller, T. and Abba-Dabo, A.A. (2018). Value-driven partner search for Energy from Waste projects. In: SEMANTiCS 2018 - 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems, 10-13 Sep 2018, Vienna, Austria. https://oro.open.ac.uk/55995/.
Uren, V., Wright, D., Scott, J., He, Y. and Saif, H. (2016). Social media and sentiment in bioenergy consultation. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 10(1), pp. 87–98. https://oro.open.ac.uk/45439/.
Ullmann, T.D., Uren, V. and Nikolov, A. (2009). The SemSearchXplorer - exploring semantic search results with semantic visualizations. In: AST 2009 Applications of Semantic Technologies, located at the Informatik 2009, 2 Oct 2009, Lübeck, Germany. https://oro.open.ac.uk/33413/.
Lopez, V., Uren, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2011). Is question answering fit for the Semantic Web? A survey. Semantic Web, 2(2), pp. 125–155. https://oro.open.ac.uk/29573/.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and De Roeck, A. (2009). Towards data fusion in a multi-ontology environment. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 Apr 2009, Madrid, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/29274/.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2010). Data linking: capturing and utilising implicit schema-level relations. In: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2010) at 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), 27 Apr 2010, Raleigh, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/29276/.
Fernandez, M., Zhang, Z., Lopez, V., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2011). Ontology augmentation: combining semantic web and text resources. In: 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), 25-29 Jun 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/29125/.
Lopez, V., Fernandez, M., Motta, E., Sabou, M. and Uren, V. (2007). Question Answering on the Real Semantic Web. In: The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), 11-15 Nov 2007, Busan, Korea. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28512/.
Li, G., Uren, V., Motta, E., Buckingham Shum, S. and Domingue, J. (2002). ClaiMaker: weaving a semantic web of research papers. In: First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002), 9-12 Jun 2002, Sardinia, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23344/.
Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2004). Lexicon generation by extraction of context patterns. In: Workshop on Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes at The 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004), 05-08 Oct 2004, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28517/.
Uren, V., Buckingham Shum, S., Mancini, C. and Li, G. (2004). Modelling of naturalistic argumentation in research literatures. In: 4th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument at The 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2004), 22-27 Aug 2004, Valencia, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28669/.
Uren, V., Sereno, B., Buckingham Shum, S. and Li, G. (2003). Interfaces for capturing interpretations of research literature. In: Distributed and Collective Knowledge Capture (DC-KCAP) Workshop at 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2003), 23-25 Oct 2003, Sanibel island, FL, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28674/.
Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006). AquaLog: an ontology-driven question answering system to interface the semantic web. In: HLT-NAACL 2006 - Demo session, 12 May 2006, New York, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28516/.
Nanas, N., Uren, V., De Roeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2004). Beyond TREC's filtering track. In: International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), 24-30 May 2004, Lisbon, Portugal. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23244/.
Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006). Ontology selection: ontology evaluation on the real Semantic Web. In: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), 23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23648/.
Zhu, J., Gonçalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pacheco, R. (2005). CORDER: Community Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition. In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2-5 Oct 2005, Banff, Canada. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23657/.
Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rüger, S. (2011). An information foraging theory based user study of an adaptive user interaction framework for content-based image retrieval. In: 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM), Jan 2011, Taipei, Taiwan. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28199/.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and De Roeck, A. (2008). Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture. In: 1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008) - at ESWC-08, 1 Jun 2008, Tenerife, Spain. https://oro.open.ac.uk/27994/.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and De Roeck, A. (2008). Integration of semantically annotated data by the KnoFuss architecture. In: 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008), 29 Sep - 03 Oct 2008, Acitrezza, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/28010/.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and De Roeck, A. (2008). Refining instance coreferencing results using belief propagation. In: 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), 08-11 Dec 2008, Bangkok, Thailand. https://oro.open.ac.uk/23485/.
Tech Reports
State of the art on Semantic Question Answering
Techreport ID: kmi-07-03
Date: 2007
Author(s): Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren, Marta Sabou
SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web
Techreport ID: kmi-06-11
Date: 2006
Author(s): Yuangui Lei, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta
LRD: Latent Relation Discovery for Vector Space Expansion and Information Retrieval
Techreport ID: kmi-06-09
Date: 2006
Author(s): Alexandre Gonçalves, Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Victoria Uren, Roberto Pacheco
