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.

Vargas-Vera, M. and Nagy, M. (2010) Towards Intelligent Ontology Alignment Systems for Question Answering: Challenges and Roadblocks, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence (JETWI), Vol. 2, Num. 3, pp. 244-257, ACADEMY PUBLISHER

Nagy, M. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2010) Reasoning Introspection and Visualisation Framework for Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Series Informatica, Volume LV, Number 2, pp. 57-68

Nagy, M. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2010) Towards an Automatic Semantic Data Integration: Multi-agent Framework Approach Towards an Automatic Semantic Data Integration: Multi-agent Framework Approach, in eds. Gang Wu, Book chapter in Semantic Web (ISBN:978-953-7619-54-1), pp. 107-134, In-Tech

Nagy, M. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2010) Multi-Agent Voting for Conflict Resolution - A Fuzzy Approach, Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2010), Valencia, Spain

Nagy, M. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2009) Reasoning Representation and Visualisation Framework for Ontology Mapping Using 3D modelling, The 4th edition of the Interdisciplinary in Engineering International Conference (Inter-Eng 2009), Targu Mures, Romania

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Stolarski, P. (2009) DSSim results for OAEI 2009, Workshop: The Fourth International Workshop on Ontology Matching at 8th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2009, Washington DC., USA

Nagy, M. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2009) Reaching Consensus Over Contradictory Interpretation of Semantic Web Data for Ontology Mapping, IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2009), Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Vargas-Vera, M., Nagy, M., Zyskowski, D., Haniewicz, K., Abramowicz, W. and Kaczmarek, M. (2009) Challenges on Semantic Web Services, in eds. M. Manuela Cunha, Eva F. Oliveira, António J. Tavares & Luís G. Ferreira, The Handbook of Research on Social Dimensions of Semantic Technologies and Web Services, Information Science Reference

Nagy, M. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2009) Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping Framework, 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Iinnovations (AIAI 2009), Thessaloniki, Greece

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008) Managing Conflicting Beliefs with Fuzzy Trust on the Semantic Web, The 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008), Mexico City, Mexico

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Stolarski, P. (2008) DSSim results for OAEI 2008, Workshop: The Third International Workshop on Ontology Matching at 7th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008) Introducing Fuzzy Trust for Managing Belief Conflict over Semantic Web Data, Workshop: Fourth International Workshop on Uncertain Reasoning on the Semantic Web at 7th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2008, Karlsruhe, Germany

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008) Multi-Agent Conflict Resolution with Trust for Ontology Mapping, 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing (IDC 2008), Catania, Italy

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008) Multi Agent Trust for Belief Combination on the Semantic Web, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP 2008), Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2008) Feasible Uncertain Reasoning for Multi Agent Ontology Mapping, IADIS International Conference-Informatics 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007) Uncertain Reasoning for Creating Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web, Workshop: Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW) at The 6th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2007, Busan, Korea

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007) DSSim - Managing Uncertainty on the Semantic Web, Workshop: The Second International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2007) at The 6th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2007, Busan, Korea

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007) Uncertain Reasoning in Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping on the Semantic Web, The 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence(MICAI 2007), Aguascalientes ,Mexico

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2007) Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping with Uncertainty on the Semantic Web, IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP-2007), Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Vargas-Vera, M. and Castellanos, Y. (2006) CONQUIRO: A Cluster-Based Information Retrieval Engine, The First International Congress of Computing CiComp-06, Ensenada, BC, Mexico.

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006) DSSim-ontology Mapping with Uncertainty, International Worshop on Ontology Matching OM-2006, collocated with the 5th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2006.

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006) Similarity Mapping with Uncertainty for Knowledge Management of Heterogenous Scientific Databases in a Distributed Ontology-Mapping Framework, Poster at the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge management (EKAW-2006)., Podebrady, Czech Republic

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006) Uncertainty Handling in the Context of Ontology Mapping for Question Answering, AAAI-2006 Symposium on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition., AAAI

Vargas-Vera, M., Moreale, E., Stutt, A., Motta, E. and Ciravegna, F. (2006) MnM: Semi-Automatic Ontology Population from Text Ontologies in the Context of Information Systems, Springer Verlag

Vargas-Vera, M. and Moreale, E. (2006) What is Missing in the Semantic Web Cake?, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, InderScience

Uren, V., Cimiano, P., Hanndschuh, S., Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E. and Ciravegna, F. (2006) Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: Requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art, Journal of Web Semantics, 4, 1

Vargas-Vera, M. and Moreale, E. (2005) Automatic Extraction of Knowledge from Student Essays, International Journal of Knowledge and Learning, 2005, 1, 4, pp. 318-331, InderScience

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2005) Ontology Mapping with domain specific agents in the AQUA Question Answering System, Workshop: USERSWEB at The European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2005) Multi agent Ontology Mapping Framework in the AQUA Question Answering System, International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI-2005), Monterrey, Mexico

Celjuska, D. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2004) Ontosophie: A Semi Automatic System for Ontology Population from Text, International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2004), Hyderabad, India

Vargas-Vera, M. and Celjuska, D. (2004) Event Recognition on News Stories and Semi Automatic Population of an Ontology Selected AKT papers, eds. N Shadbolt K O'Hara

Moreale, E. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2004) Semantic Services and Argumentation in E Learning, Special issue on the Theme Ontologies and the Semantic Web for E learning. IEEE Educational Technology Journal., 7, 4, pp. 112-128

Vargas-Vera, M. and Celjuska, D. (2004) Event Recognition on News Stories and Population of an Ontology, IEEE/ACM Web Intelligence (WI 2004), Beijing, China, ieee publishing house

Burek, G., Vargas-Vera, M. and Moreale, E. (2004) Indexing Student Essays Paragraphs Using LSA Over an Integrated Ontological Space, Workshop: Workshop on eLearning at Computational Linguistics and Computational Linguistic for eLearning. COLING 2004, Geneva, Switzerland

Celjuska, D. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2004) Semi automatic Population of Ontologies from Text, Workshop: Workshop on Data Analysis (WDA 2004) at WDA 2004, Slovakia, eds. J Paralic, G. Polzlbauer and A. Rauber. ISBN 80-89066-87-9.

Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2004) AQUA - Ontology-based question answering system, Third International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2004), Mexico City, Mexico

Moreale, E. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2004) Answer Extraction Using Argumentation, Third International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2004), Mexico

Moreale, E. and Vargas-Vera, M. (2003) Genre Analysis and the Automatic Extraction of Arguments from Student Essays, The Seventh International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference (CAA 2003), Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK

Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E. and Domingue, J. (2003) AQUA: An Ontology Driven Question Answering System, AAAI Spring Symposium, New Directions in Question Answering, Stanford University, CA, USA

Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E., Domingue, J., Lanzoni, M., Stutt, A. and Ciravegna, F. (2002) MnM: Ontology Driven Semi Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup, 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management (EKAW 2002), Sigüenza, Spain

Vargas-Vera, M., Motta, E., Domingue, J., Lanzoni, M., Stutt, A. and Ciravegna, F. (2002) MnM: Ontology Driven Tool for Semantic Markup, Workshop: Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup at European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002), Lyon, France Proceedings of the Workshop Semantic Authoring, Annotation & Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2002)

Vargas-Vera, M., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Buckingham Shum, S. and Lanzoni, M. (2001) Knowledge Extraction by using an Ontology based Annotation Tool, proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (K CAPÂ'01), Victoria, Canada

Domingue, J., Motta, E., Buckingham Shum, S., Vargas-Vera, M., Kalfoglou, Y. and Farnes, N. (2001) Supporting Ontology Driven Document Enrichment within Communities of Practice, The First International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K CAP'01), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Kalfoglou, Y., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Vargas-Vera, M. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2001) MyPlanet: an ontology driven Web based personalised news service, Workshop: Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing at IJCAI'01 Proceedings of the IJCAI'01 workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing

Vargas-Vera, M., Domingue, J., Kalfoglou, Y., Motta, E. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2001) Template-driven information extraction for populating ontologies, Workshop: Ontology Learning at International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'01)

Kalfoglou, Y., Domingue, J., Motta, E., Vargas-Vera, M. and Buckingham Shum, S. (2001) MyPlanet: an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service, IJCAI'01 Workshop on Ontologies and Information Sharing, Seattle, USA