I worked on knowledge management projects that use semantic web technologies.

Keys: knowledge management, ontologies, semantic web, human computer interaction

Dadzie, A., Uren, V., Miller, T. and Abba-Dabo, A. (2018) Value-driven partner search for Energy from Waste projects, SEMANTiCS 2018 - 14th International Conference on Semantic Systems, Vienna, Austria, Procedia Computer Science, 137, pp. 21-32

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

Uren, V. and Dadzie, A. (2015) Public science communication on Twitter: a visual analytic approach, Aslib Journal of Information Management, 67, 3, pp. 337 - 355

Lopez, V., Uren, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2011) Is Question Answering fit for the Semantic Web? A Survey, Journal of Semantic Web - Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, In Press

Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rueger, S. (2011) An Information Foraging Theory Based User Study of an Adaptive User Interaction Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval, Special Session: Interactive Image and Video Retrieval, The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM2011), Taipei, Taiwan, Springer

Fernandez, M., Zhang, Z., Lopez, V., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2011) Ontology augmentation: combining semantic web and text resources, 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), Banff, Alberta, Canada

Lopez, V., Nikolov, A., Sabou, M., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2010) Scaling up Question-Answering to Linked Data, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW-2010), Lisboa, Portugal

Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rueger, S. (2010) Applying Information Foraging Theory to Understand User Interaction with Content-based Image Retrieval, The Information Interaction in Context conference (IIiX2010), New Brunswick, NJ, USA, pp. 135-144, ACM

Nikolov, A., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2010) Data Linking: Capturing and Utilising Implicit Schema-level Relations, Workshop: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2010) at 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), Raleigh, USA

Uren, V., Sabou, M., Motta, E., Fernandez, M., Lopez, V. and Lei, Y. (2010) Reflections on five years of evaluating semantic search systems, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), 5, 2, pp. 87-98

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2009) Overcoming Schema Heterogeneity between Linked Semantic Repositories to Improve Coreference Resolution, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), Shanghai, China

Liu, H., Zagorac, S., Uren, V., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2009) Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-Based Image Retrieval, The 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2009), Sapporo, Japan, pp. 265-276, Springer

Ullmann, T., Uren, V. and Nikolov, A. (2009) The SemSearchXplorer - Exploring Semantic Search Results with Semantic Visualizations, Workshop: AST 2009 - Applications of Semantic Technologies at the Informatik 2009, Luebeck, Germany. Informatik 2009 - Im Focus das Leben. GI Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics, eds. Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.; Fischer, Stefan; Maehle, Erik; Reischuk, Rüdiger, Köllen Verlag.

Liu, H., Uren, V., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2009) A Four-factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval, The 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR2009), Cambridge, UK, pp. 297-304, Springer

Lopez, V., Sabou, M., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2009) Cross-Ontology Question Answering on the Semantic Web -an initial evaluation, Knowledge Capture Conference, 2009, California

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2009) Towards data fusion in a multi-ontology environment, Workshop: Linked Data on the Web at 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), Madrid, Spain

Fernandez, M., Lopez, V., Sabou, M., Uren, V., Vallet, D., Motta, E. and Castells, P. (2009) Using TREC for cross-comparison between classic IR and ontology-based search models at a Web scale, Workshop: Semantic Search 2009 Workshop at the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), Madrid, Spain

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Refining instance coreferencing results using belief propagation, 3rd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Bangkok, Thailand

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Integration of semantically annotated data by the KnoFuss architecture, 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2008), Acitrezza, Italy

Fernandez, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E., Sabou, M., Uren, V., Vallet, D. and Castells, P. (2008) Semantic search meets the Web, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Santa Clara, CA, USA, pp. 253-260

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I, eds. Paulo C.G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Ken Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Matthias Nickles, Mike Pool

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2008) Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture, Workshop: Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web at 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), Tenerife, Spain

Uren, V., Lei, Y. and Motta, E. (2008) SemSearch: refining semantic search, Demo at ESWC, Tenerife

Liu, H., Song, D., Rueger, S., Hu, R. and Uren, V. (2008) Comparing Dissimilarity Measures for Content-based Image Retrieval, The 4th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2008), Harbin, China, pp. 44-50, Springer

Uren, V., Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Liu, H., Motta, E. and Giordanino, M. (2007) The usability of semantic search tools: a review, Knowledge Engineering Review, 22, 4, pp. 361-377

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2007) Using the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence to Resolve ABox Inconsistencies, Workshop: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web at ISWC 2007, Busan, Korea

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2007) KnoFuss: A Comprehensive Architecture for Knowledge Fusion, Poster at K-CAP 2007, Whistler, Canada

Zhu, J., (2007) Social Search With Missing Data: Which Ranking Algorithm?, Journal of Digital Information Management special issue on Web Information Retrieval, eds. Pit.Pichappan, Keith van Rijsbergen, and Iadh Ounis, Digital Information Research Foundation

Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2007) SemEval: A Framework for Evaluating Semantic Metadata, The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP 2007, Whistler, BC

Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2007) Entity Association Discovery in Organizational Information Space, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, Hong Kong, China

Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2007) Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, Hong Kong, China, IEEE

Lopez, V., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pasin, M. (2007) AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets, Journal of Web Semantics, 5, 2, pp. 72-105, Elsevier

Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2007) An Infrastructure for Building Semantic Web Portals, Journal of Web Engineering, 2007, 6, 4

Zhu, J., (2007) Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, 5, 4, IOS Press

Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Li, G., Sereno, B. and Mancini, C. (2007) Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues, International Journal of Intelligent Systems, (Special Issue on Computational Models of Natural Argument), 22, 1, pp. 17-47, kmi Technical report 04-28

Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2007) SemRef: An Evaluation Refererence Model for Semantic Metadata, Poster at 4th European Semantic Web Conference

Lopez, V., Fernandez, M., Motta, E., Sabou, M. and Uren, V. (2007) Question Answering on the Real Semantic Web, The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, Korea

Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) Semantic Search Components: a blueprint for effective query language interfaces, EKAW 2006 - 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, Podebrady, Czech Republic

Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web, 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (EKAW 2006), Podebrady, Czech Republic

Nanas, N., Uren, V. and Roeck, A. (2006) Immune-Inspired Adaptive Information Filtering Artificial Immune Systems, LNCS 4163/2006, pp. 418-431, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg

Goncalves, A., Zhu, J., Song, D., Uren, V. and Pacheco, R. (2006) LRD: Latent Relation Discovery for Vector Space Expansion and Information Retrieval, Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 7th International Conference, WAIM 2006, June 17-19, 2006. LNCS 4016/2006, Hong Kong, China, pp. 122 - 133, Springer Verlag

Lei, Y., Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Zhu, J., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata, the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro

Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006) AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web, HLT-NAACL 2006 - Demo session, New York

Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Roeck, A. (2006) Measuring similarity for fusing extracted knowledge, Workshop: 9th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium, Milton Keynes, UK, pp. 33-40

Buckingham Shum, S., Uren, V., Li, G., Sereno, B. and Mancini, C. (2006) Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Special issue on Computational Models of Natural Argument)

Uren, V., Buckingham Shum, S., Bachler, M. and Li, G. (2006) Sensemaking Tools for Understanding Research Literatures: Design, Implementation and User Evaluation, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 64, 5, pp. 420-445

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

Sabou, M., Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Uren, V. (2006) Ontology Selection: Ontology Evaluation on the Real Semantic Web, Workshop: Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web (EON 2006) at 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh

Damle, D., Uren, V., DeRoeck, A. and Domingue, J. (2005) Identifying Important Words For Semi-automatically Building Ontologies From Natural Language Text, 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05), Pune, India

Damle, D. and Uren, V. (2005) Extracting significant words from corpora for ontology extraction (poster), International Conference on Knowledge Capture, KCAP 05, Banff, Canada

Uren, V., Motta, E., Dzbor, M. and Cimiano, P. (2005) Browsing for Information by Highlighting Automatically Generated Annotations: A User Study and Evaluation, 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Banff, Canada

Zhu, J., (2005) CORDER: COmmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition, Poster at International Conference on Knowledge Capture, Banff, Canada Proceedings of Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K Cap'2005), pp. 219-220, ACM