All 417 Past Events
Shifting Power: Stories of Artificial Intelligence and Justice
[ONLINE ONLY] In 2022, I received a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and justice. Our research program has explored how global power asymmetries impact different parts of the AI pipeline, the...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 29 October 2024
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Creative engagement and co-design for inclusion
This presentation explores the intersection of creativity, design and learning. Over the past decade, my research has focused on developing inclusive co-design methodologies that empower marginalised groups. Through a series of case studies, I...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 15 October 2024
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Are we there yet? Automating visual understanding (and research in AI)
This is my valedictory lecture marking my retirement from the post of Professor of Knowledge Media: Some say that one of the tricks for a long and auspicious career is to gain the ability to say no to things you don't like doing. It is my...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 03 September 2024
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Large Language Models for Scientific Question Answering: an Extensive Analysis of the SciQA Benchmark
The SciQA benchmark for scientific question answering presents a challenging task for next-generation question-answering systems, where standard large language models often fall short. In this seminar, we will analyze the performance of...
Organisation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, IT
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 23 July 2024
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On the Peripheral - Design Praxis feeling the future paradigm
This abstract explores the potential of combining haptics technology with Augmented Reality (AR) and Extended Reality (XR) for a more inclusive and engaging learning experience. Traditional learning for STEM, applied disciplines are...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 09 July 2024
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Building Trustworthy AI: Uncertainty Quantification and Failure Detection in Large Vision-Language Models
Although AI systems, especially LLMs, have been applied in various fields and achieved impressive performance, their safety and reliability are still a big concern. It is especially important for safety-critical tasks. One shared...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 28 May 2024
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Artificial Intelligence for Literature Reviews: Opportunities and Challenges
Numerous tools have been developed to assist and partially automate the Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) process. The increasing role of AI in this field shows great potential in providing more effective support for researchers, moving...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 21 May 2024
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Understanding Misogynoir Online: Challenges in Identifying Intersectional Hate Speech
In today's digital age, where social networking sites serve as a nexus for diverse cultures and identities worldwide, we witness the dark side of this connectivity through the rise of hate speech. This form of digital aggression, targeting...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 30 April 2024
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Designing Dialogic Human-AI interfaces to further Citizen Science practice
What does it mean to engage in a dialogue with AI? How can Human-AI dialogic interactions transform our approach to scientific inquiry and collaboration? As AI becomes integral to scientific research and broader societal...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 16 April 2024
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Interactive Webcasts and eXtended Reality at the OU
Open University (OU) students undertake practical and practice-based learning activities in The OpenSTEM Labs through online access to remote equipment, interactive screen experiments, and live web broadcasts. I have been involved in...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 21 February 2024
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Persuasion across the Political Spectrum
In recent years, computational studies started analysing several aspects of News Media. The research community began developing models to extract and classify news articles in multiple dimensions: parallel news reports analysis, persuasion...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 January 2024
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What makes an effective response to aggression on social media?
Various authors (for example, Benesch et al. 2015, Ray et al. 2022) have attempted to define or describe what an "effective" response is to social media aggression, such as hate crime, cyberbullying, and online abuse. Some of these...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 10 January 2024
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AI-Driven Ontology extraction of Research Areas
Ontologies are essential tools for structuring and collecting human knowledge. They enable the identification and description of concepts concerning a specific topic. In the field of scientific research, ontologies enable efficient...
Organisation: University of Cagliari
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 December 2023
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Assessing research needs data transparency - or the OpenCitations' vision for an open citation and bibliographic data ecosystem
Recently, the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) has proposed a list of 10 commitments to push institutions to revise the current research assessment practices to make them more diverse and transparent. One of these...
Organisation: University of Bologna
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 29 November 2023
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Learning Analytics as a weapon in a fight against Awarding Gaps
In the ongoing quest for equitable education, the seminar "Learning Analytics as a Weapon in the Fight Against Awarding Gaps" will unveil a transformative exploration of Learning Analytics and its pivotal role in addressing the...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 November 2023
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Belief and Behaviour: How can Democratic Reflection increase the sustainability of belief change in working managers?
Belief in brain plasticity can lead to a growth mindset - a set of beliefs about the power to improve skills and capabilities through effort, persistence and the right strategies. Based on the work of Carol S Dweck, it is generally...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 November 2023
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Lectures in the Metaverse: Engaging University students socially within virtual worlds
For the last 3 years, Professor Burnett has taught Engineering and Computing students (presently 266 in total) about the Human Factors design issues for virtual reality from within a persistent virtual world. Teaching activities have included...
Organisation: Loughborough University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 11 October 2023
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Not only enhance student engagement but also student employability skills and digital experience
Many university teachers have redesigned/reshaped their module structure and/or delivery process to enhance student engagement. However, this is a diverse and complex area and it seems to be the “Holly Grail” of education. The...
Organisation: University of Liverpool
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 19 September 2023
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Language Models for Citation Classification
Citation classification has been a research focus for several years, with the goal of identifying the author's citation intent by examining the text surrounding it. Due to the complexities involved in feature extraction, especially for...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 September 2023
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CERSEI: Cognitive Effort based Recommender System for Enhancing Inclusiveness
Awarding gaps have been commonly observed between different socio-demographic categories of students, especially in the domains of sociology and learning science. Recent research in the context of OUAnalyse has shown that using Learning...
Organisation: Université de Lorraine
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 19 July 2023
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Learning analytics to provide enhanced feedback for students, teachers and learning designers
Analytics of student learning has the potential to positively impact various stakeholders in the educational environment and even reduce existing inequalities. Yet, much of the published research in this area focuses on factors like model...
Organisation: Swiss Distance University of Applied Sciences
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 June 2023
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Stressed at work? Can we support mental well-being at work with new technology?
Stress and related problems are a plague of the modern knowledge-intensive work life, many experience frequent or constant stress at work. Reasons range from hectic, uncontrollable workload to lack of support and recognition, to environmental...
Organisation: VTT Technical Research Center of Finland
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 24 May 2023
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Improving Immersive Civic Engagement with Politics
"Shaping one’s own political positions before a general election is a common but very complex task for any citizen of a democratic society; and it is poorly supported by existing CSCW technologies today. We propose an...
Organisation: CITIC (Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research), University of A Coruña, Spain
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 24 May 2023
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The Melete Scholarship Experience
The first recipients of the Melete Scholarships — Shuang Ao and Joseph Kwarteng, will share their experiences about their Melete journey. The Melete Scholarship provides the opportunity to have the extra financial freedom to...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 March 2023
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The Melete Scholarship Experience
The first recipients of the Melete Scholarships — Shuang Ao and Joseph Kwarteng, will share their experiences about their Melete journey. The Melete Scholarship provides the opportunity to have the extra financial freedom to...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 March 2023
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Decentralising Education Using Blockchain Technology
In this talk, I will discuss the potential impact that emerging decentralisation technologies can have on the future of education. More specifically, I will present the pilot that I have led in the context of the European project QualiChain,...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 February 2023
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Privacy-Preserving Decentralised Learning Analytics: Differential Privacy
Predictive Learning Analytics (PLA) is a subfield of Learning Analytics that uses Student Activity Data, such as Assessment Scores and Trace Data, to create predictive Machine Learning models. These models are then used to provide insights to...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 25 January 2023
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Making and doing goods in practice: a proposition for empirical ethics
This paper considers the Science and Techology Studies (STS) approach of 'making & doing' as one possible resource for empirical ethicists who want to go beyond descriptions of the good in practice and engage in the field with an...
Organisation: Utrecht University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 January 2023
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Towards Human-centric AI
We are currently on the cusp of a revolution in AI technologies and many of them are being integrated into everyday life. However, there is still work to do to make them human-centric by being understandable, controllable and fair. In this...
Organisation: School of Computing Science at University of Glasgow
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 02 December 2022
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Authority in public deliberation: An argumentation approach
Nearly all cases of deliberation – from private consumer decisions to complex public policies – rely on the authority of some external experts who advise, recommend, or warn us to do φ rather than ψ. We...
Organisation: NOVA University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 28 November 2022
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Trust and Explanation in Artificial Intelligence Systems: A Healthcare Application in Disease Detection and Preliminary Diagnosis
The way in which Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems reach conclusions is not always transparent to end-users, whether experts or non-experts. This creates serious concerns about the trust that people would place in such systems if they were...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 22 November 2022
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Relevance Models based on the Knowledge Gap
Search systems are increasingly used for gaining knowledge through accessing relevant resources from a vast volume of content. However, search systems provide only limited support to users in knowledge acquisition contexts. Specifically, they...
Organisation: Vienna University of Technology
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 02 November 2022
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Health condition evolution for effective use of electronic records: knowledge representation, acquisition, and reasoning
Smart City initiatives aim to enhance the effective management of resources while providing quality services to citizens. Central to these initiatives is the use of large-scale datasets that enable intelligent analytics and reasoning...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 27 October 2022
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Reverse engineering of an ontology: Extracting competency questions from knowledge graphs
Developing an ontology is a straightforward process covered by well-known methodologies. As any engineering development, the fundamental basis of the process are the requirements, named competency questions. Traditionally, competency questions...
Organisation: University of Bologna
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 21 October 2022
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Domain-Specific Genuine Information Retrieval
The spread of multiple kinds of user-generated content through Web 2.0 technologies, has led to the diffusion of possible misinformation, due also to the absence of intermediaries that can guarantee the quality and the credibility of the...
Organisation: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 20 October 2022
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Tracking bias creep in machine learning with covariance analysis
Demand for fairer machine learning models is rapidly growing due to their increasing use in many decision-making processes. Several methods have been developed to detect and mitigate the bias of these models. One common approach for addressing...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 October 2022
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EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces and AI methods: contribution and challenges in emotional classification and representation
EEG-based Brain-Computer Interfaces give the possibility to analyse the so-called "living brain" that is the brain in action. The seminar will explore the possible contribution and the challenge related to this brain imaging...
Organisation: University of Milan
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 03 October 2022
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Inoculating the public against misinformation
Inoculation theory is a social psychological communication theory that explains how an attitude or belief can be protected against persuasion or influence in much the same way a body can be protected against disease. Dr. Jon Roozenbeek will be...
Organisation: University of Cambridge
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 28 September 2022
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Visually Intelligent Agents: Improving Sensemaking in Service Robotics
Robots can assist us in many scenarios that are inconvenient or unsafe for us, e.g., when social distancing needs to be maintained, or under the extreme conditions imposed by hazardous industrial scenarios and space explorations. Before we can...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 September 2022
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p-Value: A statistically rigorous approach to machine learning model comparison
Evaluation of machine learning models often involves a two stage comparison of model predictions to a human annotated "gold standard" - yielding a metric score such as accuracy or correlation - and then a comparison of those metric...
Organisation: Google
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 07 September 2022
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Monitoring, Understanding, and Influencing the Co-Spread of COVID-19 Misinformation and Fact-checks
Correcting misconceptions and false beliefs is important for inserting reliable information about COVID-19 into public discourse, but what impact does this have on the continued proliferation of misinforming claims? How can we track their...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 August 2022
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Data integration with a façade. The case of Knowledge Graph construction.
Data integration is the predominant use case for Knowledge Graphs (KG) because they can flexibly support a diversity of representations, relying on Semantic Web Ontologies. This talk describes a novel method for arbitrary data integration...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 July 2022
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Rapid Systematic Reviews: Automation of Citation Screening with the Usage of Eligibility Criteria
Systematic Literature Reviews are commonly used in medicine to judge the efficacy of medical interventions based on publications of clinical trials. However, systematic reviews can require months to years to complete if done manually....
Organisation: TU Wien
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 16 May 2022
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Augmenting Human Performance at Scale with Interactive Technologies
Why settle for a bad instructor, if you can learn knowledge-intensive tasks from the luminaries of a field? Wearable Enhanced Learning with e-textiles and Augmented Reality Smart Glasses makes it possible to see the world through the eyes of...
Organisation: IET, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 March 2021
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Citation Classification for Research Evaluation
Analysing citations has several applications, one of the most important being research evaluation. Traditional use of citation counts alone as an indicator for measuring the scientific impact has severe flaws and has been subject to...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 17 December 2020
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Cognitive AI - mimicking how we think
Cognitive AI focuses on functionally modelling human memory, reasoning and learning inspired by the evolution of neural systems over 500 million years, and decades of work in the cognitive sciences. This talk will introduce work on cognitive...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 06 November 2020
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COVID-19 Antibody Test/Vaccination Certification: There's an app for that
As the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2019/2020 unfolds, a controversial 'Immunity Passport' has been mooted as a way to enable individuals to return back to work or be admitted to current off-limits locations. Our approach is less dramatic,...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 19 May 2020
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Is what you see really what you get? Improving robot sensemaking through Visual Intelligence
The fast-paced advancement of the AI and Robotics fields has provided new technological tools for developing robots that can assist people with their daily tasks (i.e.,
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 25 March 2020
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Computational argumentation methods to improve sensemaking and evidence-based reasoning in online deliberation systems
Efficient online deliberation processes are crucially important for large organisations to deliver more inclusive, legitimate, and implementable decisions. Integrating argumentation technologies aided by means of computational...
Organisation: KMi, Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 25 March 2020
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Detecting subtle text manipulations: a cross-article analysis chasing the signals of media framing
In the world of public misinformation, there are many cases where the information is not false or fabricated, but rather has been manipulated using more subtle techniques such as word replacements, omissions and argument distortion. These...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 25 March 2020
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Models, Code Generation, and Abstraction: A triple approach to enhance robot software development
In recent years, robotics is evolving from its mechatronics roots, to explore the advanced functionalities offered by complex applications. We are entering a new robot software age. Unfortunately, nowadays, developing an application for a...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 13 March 2020
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Promoting the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge in India
The raw materials needed for doing science in India, and for educating generations of future scientists, have been outsourced to foreign corporations, an example of the colonisation of knowledge throughout the world. In this talk, Carl Malamud...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 03 March 2020
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Introduction to Holochain: a distributed framework for computing
The original vision of the Internet was to create an anti-fragile, truly peer-to-peer network. However, today's Internet has become centralized in a number of ways: DNS addressing, cloud hosting by a small number of corporates, and...
Organisation: Holochain
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 02 March 2020
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Gender, emotions, biased beliefs: DIY or ask someone nice
In this talk I’ll describe an experiment to assess the effect of beliefs about gender in selecting oneself or a designated person to carry out a volunteering task. Participants in a volunteering task are given the option of...
Organisation: University of Reading
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 22 November 2019
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Design and Evaluation of Multi-party Conversational Systems
User Evaluation of Multi-party Conversational Systems. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and mobile computing, together with the rising popularity of chat and messaging environments, have enabled a boom...
Organisation: IBM Research Brazil
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 18 November 2019
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Bias in System Evaluation
"Bias" is a trending topic in the context of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, and for a good reason: more and more decision making processes in our lives (such as getting a loan or being interviewed by a job) are mediated by...
Organisation: National Distance Education University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 24 October 2019
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Some topics in the digitalisation of Energy Systems
Digitalisation is helping to facilitate the decarbonisation of the energy system. Smart meters and extensive monitoring is increasing the visibility of the energy networks and advanced analytics can enable new smart technologies to...
Organisation: Energy Systems Catapult
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 11 October 2019
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Projection-Based Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings: On Strong Baselines, Comparative Evaluation, and Some Misconceptions
Cross-lingual word embeddings (CLEs) hold promise of multilingual modeling of meaning and cross-lingual transfer of NLP models. Early models for inducing cross-lingual word vector spaces, requiring sentence- or document-level bilingual signal...
Organisation: University of Mannheim
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 10 October 2019
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When are household load profiles similar? Comparing distance measures for Smart Meter Data Analytics
The smart meter roll-out in many countries leads to energy providers, energy value-added service providers, and grid operators having access to increasing amounts of high-resolution load profiles (e.g. 15-minute resolution) compared to only...
Organisation: Technische Universität
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 22 July 2019
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Deep Learning for Information Extraction from Cancer Pathology Reports
Medical text can present unique challenges for natural language processing (NLP) including documents that are several pages long, linguistic dependencies over different report sections, and only a tiny fraction of the report text being...
Organisation: University of Tennessee
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 19 March 2019
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Acknowledgement Lag, Impact, and Community Formation: Data-Driven Approaches for Describing Research Outcomes
Publication and funder data are rich sources of insight into the research behaviors of scientists. Particularly when these data are harmonized from across systems, we are able to gain understanding of such phenomenon as disciplinary...
Organisation: Assistant Professor Librarian, University of Tennessee Libraries
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 28 January 2019
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Participation and Human-Computer Interaction
I have explored how SIGCHI research community have explored themes that are political. I conducted thematical analysis of the research community to highlight how broad the topic can be. Following this, I seek to explore the literature using...
Organisation: Aalto University, Department of Computer Science
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 23 January 2019
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Social behavior and the spread of disease in animal populations
The study of relationships within animal groups has provided many insights into the nature of social behavior. Despite this, finding a reliable measure of sociality that can be used to compare animal systems is an ongoing challenge. While...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 10 December 2018
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A gentle introduction to Community Finding Detection Algorithms
Social Mining and Community Finding methods can be seen as a particular application domain of Big Data, Data Mining and Machine Learning areas. The interest in Community Finding Problems on Social Networks (SN) have experienced an increasing...
Organisation: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 30 November 2018
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Cobra, Piranha, and Other Deadly Animals: An Overview of Publication Mining Research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
From the award-winning Piranha text analytics tool to the Cobra Publication Management System used to track publications from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (home of the world’s fastest supercomputer for open science...
Organisation: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 29 October 2018
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Knowledge-Powered Model Integration in Environmental and Social Sciences: Challenges and Solutions
Environmental and social scientists rely on observational data to accurately model natural processes and human activities around the globe. Since these processes and activities do not occur in isolation, it is required to forecast how they...
Organisation: University of Southern California
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 26 October 2018
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Machine learning and natural language processing for humanitarian response: a view from the field
Drawing on real-life case studies from Nepal, Indonesia, and Kenya, I will provide an overview of how crowdsourced and social media data are used or ignored in humanitarian response and the challenges they pose for practitioners. Designed in...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 October 2018
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Ontology-Based Recommendation of Editorial Products
Major academic publishers need to be able to analyse their vast catalogue of products and select the best items to be marketed in scientific venues. This is a complex exercise that requires characterising with a high precision the topics of...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 21 September 2018
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las2peer: Innovation on the Fringe Next Generation Open Source Service Development for Communities of Practice
The practice of service development in general and Web service development in particular is not easy to acquire for novice and even experienced software developers. Either you have to learn a huge software stack or you have to rely on third...
Organisation: RWTH Aachen University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 10 September 2018
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Big Data, Small Data, Energy Data
AND Technology Research has been active for over 20 years in monitoring energy. ‘Energy Data’ is created as a consequence. Much of that time has involved the collection of ‘Small Data’; data relevant to one...
Organisation: AND Technology Research Ltd
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 20 July 2018
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Stylistic variation: Applications, limitations and risks
People express themselves in different ways due to their background, their intended audience, the conventions of their language for the genre in question, or just as a matter of personal style. This variation has important consequences for...
Organisation: Amazon Alexa AI
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 July 2018
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An introduction to SRE at Google
"Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is what you get when you ask a software engineer to do a operations role." Since 2004 the reliability of Google's critical services such as Websearch and Gmail has been defended by the...
Organisation: Google
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 25 June 2018
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Alpha-Beta Privacy (a novel and declarative way to reason about privacy)
Formally specifying privacy goals is not trivial. The most widely used approach in formal methods is based on the static equivalence of frames in the applied pi-calculus, basically asking whether or not the intruder is able to distinguish two...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 15 June 2018
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Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses for the Humanities Using Text, Images, and Tables
Humanities research is more and more becoming an interdisciplinary affair; digitisation and computing present researchers with interesting opportunities but also with challenges. Opportunities about in digital archives that are available to...
Organisation: Digital Humanities Lab, KNAW Humanities Cluster, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 21 May 2018
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Interlinking SciGraph and DBpedia datasets: an initial investigation
Over the past years, we have seen a proliferation of Linked Data sources, however often these are not easily exploitable unless they are augmented with additional links between them. Only by doing so we can contribute to the evolution of the...
Organisation: University of Genoa
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 02 May 2018
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Semantic Mapping
Semantic mapping is the process that creates a representation of the environment suitable for the implementation of complex tasks and behaviors that require both geometric and semantic knowledge. We will present an overview of the approaches...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 20 April 2018
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ScienceMiles - Digital currency for researchers
Peer-reviewing is a community-driven activity where volunteer researchers assess the work of other researchers. Peer-reviewing is an important and time-consuming activity that has very little recognition. This lack of incentive may lead to...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 April 2018
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Characterizing participation in online discussion platforms
Online discussions are the essence of many social platforms on the Internet. Discussion platforms are receiving increasing interest because of their potential to become deliberative spaces. Although previous studies have proposed approaches to...
Organisation: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 April 2018
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Internet Users Reasoning in Large-Scale Online Open Participative (LSOOP) Activities
Internet users increasingly interact with others through these new and advanced forms of online communication. Many of these interactions involve complex reasoning processes. Compared to face-to-face communications, participation in Open...
Organisation: School of Information Studies Syracuse University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 23 March 2018
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Context recognition and urban intelligence from mining spatio-temporal sensor data
Effective and efficient techniques for analyzing spatio-temporal sensor data from the urban enviornment are paramount, particularly in addressing these key growth areas in urbanization: human mobility, transportation, and energy consumption....
Organisation: RMIT University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 15 March 2018
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Integrating Semantic Web in the Real World: A journey between two cities
An early vision in Computer Science has been to create intelligent systems capable of reasoning on large amounts of data. Today, this vision can be delivered by integrating Relational Databases with the Semantic Web using the W3C standards: a...
Organisation: Capsenta
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 05 February 2018
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Conceptualizing and Designing with Liberating Voices Patterns
Workshop convened by Doug Schuler, author of Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution, New Community Networks etc. 1) Introduction to pattern languages 2) workshop 3) new directions for theory...
Organisation: Evergreen State College
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 02 February 2018
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eSTEeM and KMi: Enhancing Scholarship in STEM
eSTEeM is the STEM Faculty’s centre for STEM pedagogy. Established in 2010, we aim to bring together academics to promote innovation, scholarship and enterprise in STEM open and distance learning. Our portfolio of projects...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 24 January 2018
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Tracking Mobility in large metropolitan areas via their citizens
Around 50% of the global population live in metropolitan areas, and this is likely to grow to 75% by 2050. Across Europe cities are stable aggregates with large expanding suburbs. These metropolitan areas need to grow in an efficient,...
Organisation: Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 18 January 2018
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL
Abstract: Networks are a data structure commonly found in any social media service that allows populations to author collections of connections. The
Organisation: Connected Action Consulting Group
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 14 November 2017
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Semantic Map of Sexism: Topic Modelling of the Everyday Sexism Content
The Everyday Sexism Project documents everyday examples of sexism reported by volunteer contributors from all around the world. It has reached 100,000 entries in 13+ languages within 3 years of its existence. The content of reports in various...
Organisation: University of Oxford
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 13 November 2017
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Understanding Stories with Large-Scale Commonsense
Story understanding systems need to be able to perform commonsense reasoning, specifically regarding characters’ goals and their associated actions. Some efforts have been made to form large-scale commonsense knowledge bases, but...
Organisation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 10 November 2017
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The professional licensing of software engineers will change lives
If you want to practice medicine in the UK, you need a licence to practice. In the IT industry, we're different. You don't need a licence to practice no matter whether it's web page design or the software to control a medical...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 02 November 2017
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Blockchains as a Component of the Next Generation Internet
Blockchains are best known as the technological underpinning for the Bitcoin cryptocurrency highlighted for its potential to revolutionise the financial world. For example, a World Economic Forum survey in 2015 found that those polled believe...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 31 October 2017
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Mining Scholarly Publications for Research Evaluation
Scientific research can lead to breakthroughs that revolutionise society by solving long standing problems. However, investment of public funds into research requires the ability to clearly demonstrate beneficial returns, accountability, and...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 16 October 2017
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Can we do better than Co-Citations? Bringing Citation Proximity Analysis from idea to practice in research paper recommendation
Scholarly publications are increasing exponentially every year, creating challenges for researchers to stay in touch with new relevant articles in their domain. Recommender Systems can serve dual purpose. To researchers, it can help...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 11 October 2017
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Learning word representations with deep learning
Learning word representations from unsupervised methods has been recently extensively explored. However the studied methods have been limited to methods based on co-occurrence statistics or windowed bag-of-word shallow neural networks. These...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 October 2017
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Mining MOOCs to assist second language learners
MOOCs claim to offer access to affordable, quality education to anyone around the world. The language of instruction is invariably English, a second language for many students. MOOCs include extensive text in the style of...
Organisation: University of Waikato
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 28 September 2017
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Incidental or influential: Challenges in automatic detection of citation importance
This work looks in depth at several studies that have attempted to automate the process of citation importance classification based on the publications' full text. We analyse a range of features that have been previously used in this task....
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Webcast date: Thursday 21 September 2017
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Robot capabilities and models or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Robotics
Complex robotic systems integrating advanced hardware components and sophisticated algorithms are nowadays gaining in popularity, thanks to the widespread use of robotic middlewares such as the Robot...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 14 July 2017
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Supporting the discoverability of Open Educational Resources
This talk will briefly present my PhD research, aiming to contribute solutions to support educators in their exploratory search of (Open) Educational Resources. As a first step, a taxonomy of OER search-related tasks was developed, based on a...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 26 June 2017
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Civic Intelligence in Uncertain and Threatening Times
Civic intelligence is the capacity for individuals and groups to address shared problems equitably and efficiently. The still-evolving theory of civic intelligence suggests a strong hypothesis: That the survival and quality of life of a...
Organisation: Evergreen State College
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 23 June 2017
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Data provenance and trustworthiness assessment in photo archives
Art Historical Photo Archives are making their first steps in the Semantic Web. An ontology capable to represent the domain is still under development. Merging information from different data sources will highlight contradictory pieces of...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 May 2017
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Sentiment Analysis for Arabizi: A multilingual jargon in Social Media
Arabizi is a portmanteau for the words Arabic and Englizi (meaning English), it is a linguistic phenomenon where Arab natives express their dialectal mother tongue in Latinscript text using alphanumeral to represent Arabic phonemes that are...
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Webcast date: Thursday 25 May 2017
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What have psychology and philosophy ever done for us?
Formal logic is difficult, at least for most people. This applies also to languages based on formal logic, in particular when debugging requires reasoning with these languages. This talk is about how working with such formal...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 15 May 2017
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Hybrid Reasoning in Robotics
The quest of AI and Robotics researchers to realize fully AI-driven integrated robotic systems has not yet led to such realizations, in spite of great attainments in both research areas. One of the major hindrances to these realizations...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 11 May 2017
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Multidisciplinarity, one-offs and research for the masses: a summary of the EDV project
The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) project is reaching its conclusion (and so is my contract with KMi), so in this talk I will summarise the vicissitudes and peculiarities of this beautiful and very timely project. I will start by...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 04 May 2017
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We're Seeking Relevance: Ideology, Pedagogy and Psychology in Learning Analytics
One of the ongoing difficulties in learning analytics research is understanding their real impact on teaching and learning. The link between learning analytics and a conscious change in strategy is difficult to establish, as is the connection...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 April 2017
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The Statistics of Stairway to Heaven: a Semantic story about Digital Humanities
Key fields in the Humanities such as History and Musicology are central in the major transformation carried by the Digital Humanities (DH). A fundamental question in DH is how humanities datasets can be represented digitally, in such a way...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 09 March 2017
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Towards data justice? Reframing the datafication debate
This presentation explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication. It is premised on two significant developments: 1) the shift to a focus on the collection and processing of massive amounts of data across social life and 2)...
Organisation: School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 February 2017
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Early Detection of Research Topics
The ability to promptly recognise new research trends is strategic for many stakeholders, such as academics, institutional funding bodies, academic publishers and companies. While the state of the art presents several works on the...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 February 2017
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Coming to Terms with Seductive Surveillance
In western societies, the dependence on Information and Communication technologies (ICTs) is rapidly increasing. The use of digital technologies in everyday life is widespread and individuals seem to use their digital gadgets everywhere as...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 08 July 2016
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How Blockchain Technology Will Change Industries
Hugh Halford-Thompson of BTL will give an introduction to blockchain technologies before talking in more detail about various use cases across different sectors including payments and settlement, reconciliation, and traceability. He will...
Organisation: Quickbitcoin
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 24 May 2016
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Diagrammatic Ontology Engineering
Ontology engineering is a difficult activity and requires both domain knowledge and expertise in modelling notations such as OWL. The symbolic-like nature of OWL and, even more so, description logics can pose a barrier to entry for those who...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 24 May 2016
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Insights from psychology and language how theories of human reasoning and human language are relevant to computer science
Cognitive psychology and theories of language have had an impact on the development of computer science for many decades. Early work in cognitive psychology influenced, and was influenced by computer scientists, whilst research on human...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 May 2016
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Transparency in Design: How far did we get from WYSIWIG?
Digital technologies are becoming the main conduit for our actions, communication, and interactions. Having a good command of adopted technologies and a good understanding of processes they enable, is essential for informed and responsible...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 22 April 2016
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Language of online Social Networks Detection, Diffusion, Prediction
Language exists in a constant flux: existing in the duality of social structure and the actions of the agents with the system. As a result, new words come and go from people's vocabularies - e.g. the recent introduction of `e-cig' and...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 15 March 2016
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Internet of Things and Security Ceremony
In an automate environment connected to the Internet of Things, establishing security protocols is no longer a pure technical issue. The human component, their values and preferences on how they relate to the environment need to be considered...
Organisation: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 04 March 2016
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An introduction to the International Image Interoperability Framework
Embraced by a growing number of the world’s leading research and cultural heritage organizations, the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) provides an open framework for organizations to publish their image-based...
Organisation: Digirati
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 27 November 2015
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Time representation ontology in the context of performance measurement indicators
Performance measurement indicators are widely used by organizations in order to assess, measure and classify organizational performance. As part of performance measurement systems, indicators are often shared or compared to different internal...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 11 November 2015
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FORGE Open Call webinars
Forging Online Education through FIRE (FORGE) is a project bringing the FIRE and eLearning worlds together. FORGE aligns FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) with the ongoing education...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 October 2015
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ARToolKit Open Source Software
ARToolKit was the first commercially available SDK for Augmented Reality. Following its acquisition by DAQRI, it has been released Free and Open Source under an LGPL license. The presentation discusses how ARToolKit underpinned the past...
Organisation: DAQRI Inc
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 07 July 2015
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Extending the World Wide Web Without Internet
The World Wide Web is widely viewed as a premier global mechanism for communication, information and knowledge sharing between people. However, this is not at all a trivial thing. Although the Web is global, still billions of people on the...
Organisation: The Network Institute, Web alliance for Regreening in Africa (W4RA, www.w4ra.org), VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 02 July 2015
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An Introduction to OpenUIX
The new capabilities of Augmented Reality systems facilitate the definition of new interaction mechanisms that take into consideration the real (physical) world to create compelling user experiences. However, the lack of a proper HCI model...
Organisation: Deustotech (University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 30 June 2015
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Fostering an international initiative to mitigate the barriers of full participation for geoscience students and practitioners with disabilities
The importance of experiential learning is well documented in geoscience literature. However, experience-based learning often places profound barriers on individuals with physical and sensory disabilities seeking to obtain certifications...
Organisation: University of Cincinnati and the International Association for Geoscience Diversity
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 29 June 2015
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A new concept in online universities
Founded in 2009, UNIR has become the biggest private University in Spain. We will learn, in this brief presentation,...
Organisation: Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 23 June 2015
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Named-Entity Chunking for Norwegian Text Using Support Vector Machines
To make machines able to find people, organisations, events and other named-entities in text we need to define ways to separate which tokens in the text that are part of a named-entity and which are not. In this presentation I present a...
Organisation: Uni. of Bergen
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 10 March 2015
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Continuous activity with immediate feedback: a good strategy to guarantee the students engagement in online maths
In this talk the experience of applying a new teaching strategy to a basic mathematics course at the Open University of Catalonia will be described. This strategy requires students to engage with practice and assessment tests with automatic...
Organisation: Open University of Catalonia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 February 2015
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A Uniform Model for Tolerance-Based Real-Time Computing
Standard real-time models do not consider the fact that a chosen technical deadline is different from the critical latency where the service utility becomes zero. But this fact is rather important for engineering practice.
Organisation: School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 03 December 2014
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Exploratory Search and Trend Detection
The talk will present the notion of exploratory search as a means to go beyond "lookup", like learning or investigating (Marchionini 2006), and sketch its usefulness in new applications such as Digital Humanities. In...
Organisation: Institut für Informatik/Computer Science Department Universität Leipzig
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 19 November 2014
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Engaged research in healthcare - what can digital engagement offer?
A research team drawn from the Faculty of Business Law at the Open University and Healthcare Improvement at UCL Partners, led by Prof John Storey, is currently carrying out a major 3 year research project, funded by the...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 10 November 2014
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A Semantic Modelling and Ranking Approach for Agricultural Sensor Data Analytics
Sensor data analytics is an essential part of agricultural decision support systems. Farmers and crop managers need fit for purpose environmental derived data and predictive models to help them monitor their crop and adjust control options for...
Organisation: ISSL, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 30 October 2014
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Designed visualisation: good design doing good?
The talk will introduce ideas around design as an agent of change and how designed visual communications can operate within the field of argument visualisation.The opportunities present within the the EPSRC-funded platform for Election Debate...
Organisation: Lecturer, School of Design, University of Leeds
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 29 July 2014
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Point-based medialness for shape representation, recognition and movement computing
Prashant Aparajeya will present the research project "Point-based medialness for shape representation, recognition and movement computing" that he is conducting at Computer Vision group, Goldsmiths, University of London. In this work...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 16 July 2014
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Teaching the Internet over the Internet
Cisco Systems developed as part of their academy programme a simulator for teaching networking in 2007/8. This discussion describes how this is used within the Open University as well as how the development of the multiuser tool may shape the...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 07 July 2014
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The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) Project
During the 2010 UK general election, the first ever televised Prime Ministerial debates took place. Research and pilot work in KMi and at University of Leeds demonstrated the interest that this sparked in the public, their need for more...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 19 June 2014
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Configurable Multi-agent Systems Based on Performance Matrix for Facial Recognition
In order to solve the intrapersonal variation problem in facial recognition, we propose a framework of a multi-engine system for facial recognition configurable in image types, watch sizes and engines based on performance matrices. The value...
Organisation: Cyber-Physical System Centre, Engineering Science Division, School of Engineering, Cranfield University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 June 2014
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Developing a publics-centred approach to conducting and evaluating engaged research
Developing a publics-centred approach to conducting and evaluating engaged research: a case study of the Participation Now project Although public engagement is high on the agenda - within higher education and other...
Organisation: Social Sciences, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 09 June 2014
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The usability of Description Logics Understanding the cognitive difficulties presented by Description Logics
Description Logics have been extensively studied from the view- point of decidability and computational tractability. Less attention has been given to their usability and the cognitive difficulties they present, in particular for those who are...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 June 2014
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SentiCircles for Contextual and Conceptual Semantic Sentiment Analysis of Twitter
Lexicon-based approaches to Twitter sentiment analysis are gaining much popularity due to their simplicity, domain independence, and relatively good performance. These approaches rely on sentiment lexicons, where a collection of words are...
Organisation: KMi, The OpenUniversity
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 May 2014
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Dedalo: looking for Clusters Explanations in a Labyrinth of Linked Data
We present Dedalo, a framework which is able to exploit Linked Data to generate explanations for clusters. In general, any result of a Knowledge Discovery process, including clusters, is interpreted by human experts who use their background...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 May 2014
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Abstracting patterns of civic online deliberation from field experiences and their evaluation.
Patterns have been proposed by Christopher Alexander (Alexander, 1977) as discernible regularities in the world or in a manmade design.Patterns are therefore a way for sharing knowledge, and reuse it. After their application in...
Organisation: Department of Computer Science, Universita' di Milano
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 13 May 2014
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The power of informal learning: A social network perspective
Across the globe, people follow formal and informal training & professional development programmes in order to further update and fine-tune their skills, knowledge and competences. While some programmes indicate positive learning effects,...
Organisation: Institute of Educational Technology (IET), The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 02 April 2014
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Taking Control of Learning Data
In this session I will talk about the ADL's xAPI specification and how it applies to learning technology. The proliferation of personal data, coupled with the increasing variety of online learning tools and the demand for a more scientific...
Organisation: HT2 http://LearningLocker.net
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 March 2014
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Exploring Scholarly Data with Rexplore
Rexplore leverages novel solutions in large-scale data mining, semantic technologies and visual analytics, to provide an innovative environment for exploring and making sense of scholarly data. In particular, Rexplore allows...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 05 March 2014
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Personal Learning Environments and Emergent Educational Practices
One of the major worries for educators about educational technology, is try to understand how emergent technologies and concepts, more than in the theoretical and technological area, are impacting on the day to day of the learning...
Organisation: Group of Research in Educational Technology. University of Murcia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 04 February 2014
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EUCLID Module 6: Scaling Up Linked Data
Linked Data and Big Data are among the most promising emerging technologies that will impact the Enterprise Data Management landscape. Previous EUCLID webinars have provided and overview of the various application scenarios and best practices...
Organisation: OntoText Lab., Sirma AI Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 19 December 2013
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The Flashmeeting digital videoconferencing system: The case of the I am not Scared project
Distance learning helps to cover the geographical and time constraints. The development of technology offers the right tools in order to address the constraints and a lot of educational organizations (especially higher education) use systems...
Organisation: School of Pedagogical Technological Education (ASPETE)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 19 December 2013
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Investigation into Raindrop Detection and Removal for Improved Sensing in Automotive Computer Vision Applications
Automotive Computer Vision is becoming more mainstream as the hardware for such is becoming more accessible. This is giving rise to implementations being added to such systems, of which most are indended to increase safety. Examples...
Organisation: Cranfield University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 December 2013
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In the quest for the city of knowledge: challenges and developments
Today plenty of data is emerging from various city systems. Beyond the classical Web resources, large amounts of data are retrieved from sensors, devices, social networks or governmental applications. There is a need to make...
Organisation: IBM Research Ireland
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 17 December 2013
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Big Data Opportunities and Challenges for IR, Text Mining, and NLP
HTRC is a collaborative effort of Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with the HathiTrust, to provide a new mode of access to the content of research libraries. That is, HTRC enables computational...
Organisation: Director, Data to Insight Center Managing Director, Pervasive Technology Institute Professor of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 12 December 2013
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Juxtalearn: From Practice into Practice
School and University students studying science and technology often encounter barriers to their understanding of complex concepts. However, unlike in the arts, students are frequently poorly motivated to overcome these barriers. ...
Organisation: University College London Interaction Centre
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 09 December 2013
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Open access, open source and OpenClinical: a knowledge commons for healthcare?
Computational techniques for supporting clinical decision-making have been discussed for over 50 years (Ledley and Lusted, Science, 1959) and research on clinical decision support (CDS) has been a recognisable subfield of medical informatics...
Organisation: Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford and Department of Oncology, UCL and Royal Free Hospital
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 27 November 2013
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Rapid Prototyping in distance learning for Industrial Design studies
In this talk, it will be discussed the use of Rapid Prototyping in the teaching of Industrial design and Product Development and the possibilities of this technology to improve and make easier distance education (e-learning or b-learning) in...
Organisation: CITIC (Centre for Information and Communications Technology Research), University of A Coruña, Spain
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 22 November 2013
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Mining Research Publication Networks for Impact
The question of how to evaluate the quality of research publications is very difficult to answer and despite decades of research, there is still no standard solution to this problem. Particularly at present, with the amount of scholarly...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 06 November 2013
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Explaining data patterns using background knowledge from Linked Data
When using data mining to find regularities in data, the obtained results (or patterns) need to be interpreted and understood, so that they can be subsequently reused in new Knowledge Discovery processes. The background knowledge to...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 17 October 2013
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How to lose publics and alienate people: Social exclusion in public engagement with science
Concerns about participation in science engagement, communication and education have typically been framed in terms of ‘barriers’ to participation. Such barriers include cost, location and interest in science. Doubtless...
Organisation: Kings College London
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 14 October 2013
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EUCLID Module 5
The fifth EUCLID webinar will focus on technologies and approaches towards exploiting Linked Data by building LD applications. First, we will provide an overview of main types of linked data applications and list examples of popular existing...
Organisation: fluid Operations AG
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 14 October 2013
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Vilfredo goes to Athens: an AI moderator for Consensus Building
Vilfredo goes to Athens is a Human Being Genetic Algorithm to help a small group of people (up to a couple of dozen people) to reach a consensus on an open question. It uses a novel form of voting where a proposal A dominates...
Organisation: DCU external Investigator, Ahref consultant
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 08 October 2013
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Changing energy consumption awareness by means of technology
Developing a “smarter” world means creating technologies that will be part of daily routine of a diversity of people. Providing more adequate feedback of energy consumption (and generation) is an example of this scenario that may...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 September 2013
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Neural Patterns of Engagement
In this talk, Roberto Fernandez and Fridolin Wild report on first experiences with a brain scanner on the quest to observe cognitive affective states and the according level of engagement during learning. They report on two experiments with...
Organisation: University of La Rioja, Spain
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 02 August 2013
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A Case Study on Generating Semantic Sensor Data
The recent years have seen a vast increase in the amount of environmental sensor data that is being published on the Web. Semantic enrichment of sensor data addresses the problems of re-use, integration and discovery. One of the main...
Organisation: ISSL, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 July 2013
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The Grand Challenges in Technology-Enhanced Learning
This lecture proposes a top-level agenda for research and development in technology-enhanced learning (TEL) from the background of the STELLAR and TEL-MAP projects. On a 5-10 year horizon, research and development of learning technology and...
Organisation: IET, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 09 July 2013
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Structured Kernel-based Learning for Spatial Role Labeling
Referring to objects or entities in the space, as well as to relations holding among them, is one of the most important functionality in natural language understanding. As a result, the detection of spatial utterances finds many applications,...
Organisation: Semantic Analytics Group - University of Rome Tor Vergata
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 03 July 2013
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Challenges of finding aesthetically pleasing images
The problem of evaluating the aesthetics of photos is considered to be quite complex. Most photographers appear to be more or less skeptical on the ability of automatic aesthetics evaluation, the reasons they give usually refer to the...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 26 June 2013
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Interacting with complexity ontologies, Description Logics and cognitive science
The use of ontologies is now prevalent in a large number of domains. In the last decade, the standardisation of the OWL family of languages has led to the widespread use of Description Logics to define ontologies. At the same time,...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 19 June 2013
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Learning artisan production of Maori carvings with the help of mobile technologies
This presentation provides an overview of the findings of a small exploratory study that evaluated the effectiveness of mobile learning to supplement the face-to-face teaching and learning of a whakairo (Māori carving) three-day course...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 11 June 2013
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Peer Supported Problem Solving and Mathematical Knowledge
My Ph. D. thesis has developed around a technological intervention intended to transform a peer produced reference resource into a peer produced learning environment. PlanetMath.org will become a mathematics practicum and laboratory for...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 29 May 2013
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Interpreting Linked Data as ontologies: doctrines and creeping issues
Years of advancements in the Semantic Web are determining a technological gap between the Linked Data levels of the traditional Semantic Web vision, and its higher layers. While the core knowledge representation and interlinking mechanisms...
Organisation: The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 15 May 2013
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Relational Database to RDF (RDB2RDF)
This tutorial will introduce participants to mapping Relational Databases to RDF (RDB2RDF). We will present the two new, interrelated and complementary W3C standards, “Direct Mapping of Relational Data to RDF” and “R2RML: RDB...
Organisation: Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas, Austin
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 15 May 2013
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Ephorus: The stony road of innovation
Ephorus has grown to become market leader with over 5,000 customers in 28 countries, 2.5 M Euros revenue, 32 staff. Ephorus did this without any 'angels' or 'investors'. After starting the company I found that, although...
Organisation: Ephorus
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 25 April 2013
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EUCLID Module 3: The Production of Linked Data
The third EUCLID webinar will cover the whole spectrum of Linked Data production and exposure. After a grounding in the Linked Data principles and best practice, with special emphasis on the VoID vocabulary, we will cover R2RML, operating on...
Organisation: Solutions Architect, Ontotext
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 22 April 2013
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A Question of Complexity Measuring the Maturity of Online Enquiry Communities
Online enquiry communities such as Question Answering (Q&A) websites allow people to seek answers to all kind of questions. With the growing popularity of such platforms, it is important for community managers to constantly monitor the...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 April 2013
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Harnessing Linked Knowledge Sources for Topic Classification in Social Media
Topic classification (TC) of short text messages o ffers an effective and fast way to reveal events happening around the world ranging from those related to Disaster (e.g. Sandy hurricane) to those related to Violence (e.g. Egypt revolution)....
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 03 April 2013
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Some challenges for large-scale data management
The digital universe is booming, especially in terms of the amount of metadata and user-generated data available. This raises serious data management challenges, including the identification, amongst all such data, of...
Organisation: Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 March 2013
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EUCLID Module 2: Querying Linked Data
This module will provide further details on making queries over Linked Data with SPARQL, and also cover the update language and protocol. Insight will be given into the interaction of inference and querying and on the formation of a query plan...
Organisation: Solutions Architect, Ontotext
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 04 March 2013
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User Engagement in the Digital World
In the online world, user engagement refers to the quality of the user experience that emphasizes the positive aspects of the interaction with a web application and, in particular, the phenomena associated with wanting to use that application...
Organisation: Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 28 November 2012
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Feature LDA: a Supervised Topic Model for Automatic Detection of Web API Documentations from the Web
Web APIs have gained increasing popularity in recent Web service technology development owing to its simplicity of technology stack and the proliferation of mashups. However, efficiently discovering Web APIs and the relevant documentations on...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 06 November 2012
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Learning Analytics symposium
This hybrid face-to-face/webinar is part of SoLAR Storm — the new virtual research lab convened by the
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 25 October 2012
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EUCLID Module 1: Linked Data
This module aims to provide a general overview of the main topics related to using Linked Data. It is only an introduction and some of the topics are only mentioned and then discussed in greater detail in one of the following modules. The main...
Organisation: Solutions Architect, Ontotext
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 01 October 2012
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Knowledge Architecture (Free and in Flow) in a Social Network
This presentation is an overview of my PhD research related to the OpenScout project and developed during my visiting research internship at KMi. It is a working in progress. It aims to discuss a virtual social network as a knowledge space....
Organisation: Mackenzie University, So Paulo, Brazil
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 03 September 2012
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The Web in Science and Research
In this presentation, Peter will talk about the involvement of the web in the scientific process. He will attempt to contextualize this area within the field of web science and present four core research topics. These core topics are:...
Organisation: Know-Center, Graz University of Technology
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 24 July 2012
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Topic Models for Data Mining
A topic model is a probabilistic generative model for extracting a latent structure from discrete data such as text document. Topic models are successfully used in a wide variety of applications including information retrieval, collaborative...
Organisation: NTT/University of Cambridge
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 13 July 2012
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Context Computing Based on Wireless Features
We are surrounded by sensing and actuating wireless devices. This environment is characterised by a high number of devices which can be reportedly explored as atypical ubiquitous sensing devices such as the power supply system, light bulbs or...
Organisation: National Institute of Informatics
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 July 2012
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Inferring the Structure of a Tennis Game Using Multimodal Information
Our ambitious long-term goal is to understand multimodal interaction between humans and we use a sports game, tennis, as a starting-point. In tennis, the goals of interactions are clearly defined and the interaction is subject to clear rules....
Organisation: School of Computing Sciences - University of East Anglia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 June 2012
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Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL
We now live in a sea of tweets, posts, blogs, and updates coming from a significant fraction of the people in the connected world. Our personal and professional relationships are now made up as much of texts, emails, phone calls, photos,...
Organisation: Connected Action Consulting Group
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 11 November 2011
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Learning Conditional Random Fields from Unaligned Data for Natural Language Understanding
One of the key tasks in natural language understanding is semantic parsing which maps natural language sentences to complete formal meaning representations. Rule-based approaches are typically domain-specific and often fragile. Statistical...
Organisation: School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 28 October 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Current trends towards networked communities and digital citizenship, as well as workplace changes including distributed/collaborative work patterns and an (arguably) higher value being placed on 'knowledge' work, all make digital capabilities...
Organisation: Glasgow Caledonian University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 15 July 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Despite promising example implementations the amount of empirical research about the use of PLE for learning is rather small. One of the reasons for this is that the concept of PLE is still fuzzy and that there is no shared research agenda for PLE...
Organisation: Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies of the Open University of the Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 14 July 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Now that we are finally realizing a global infrastructure for sharing of learning resources, we need new ways to deal with the resulting abundance. To this effect, we apply the Snowflake Effect, a label we use for a widespread trend towards...
Organisation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 July 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Thomas Sporer will give a talk on reflection in experiential learning and the role of blended assessment to bridge the gap between informal and formal learning contexts. Key competencies are of crucial importance for an education systems that aims...
Organisation: Institute for Media and Educational Technology
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 08 July 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
This presentation will examine identity construction in the age of social media. How do we practically manage our sense of [digital] identity when the boundary between our online selves and our real world selves becomes blurred. What ethical...
Organisation: University of London International Programmes
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 07 July 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
The lecture will discuss ways to collect, share and distil usage information in order to enable personalized support for learning activities. After motivating the need for new ways of aggregating usage information, we will discuss a format to...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 05 July 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
This talk is about some core objects encountered in PLEs that can cause or even foster learning. Literature on PLEs often reports the features every PLE share. The following are worth mentioning among the most frequently reported: personalisation...
Organisation: University Joseph-Fourier and University Pierre-Mendès-Franc
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 01 July 2011
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On Service Value Networks Composition
In our research we aim at a framework for Service Value Network (SVN) composition. Such framework focuses on business-oriented issues. In this sense, based on the concept of economic reciprocity, we consider a service as an economic activity that...
Organisation: Free University Amsterdam
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 27 June 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
The growth of data in the knowledge society creates opportunities for new insights through advanced analysis methods based on information retrieval technologies. Educational institutions also create and own huge datasets on their students and course...
Organisation: Open University in the Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 24 June 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Technology-enhanced learning aims to design, develop and test socio-technical innovations that will support and enhance learning practices and knowledge sharing of individuals and organizations. It is therefore an application domain that generally...
Organisation: Open University in the Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 23 June 2011
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Making Representations Matter
In this talk I will describe the research leading up to my doctoral thesis. The thesis develops and applies a method to analyze, characterize, and compare instances of participatory representational practice in such a way as to highlight...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 June 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
In most educational scenarios, the learners that use online discussions such as instant messaging and discussion forums never receive feedback for their conversations, especially due to the fact that such an analysis is very difficult and time...
Organisation: “Politehnica” University of Bucharest
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 07 June 2011
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From Search to Discovery
The landscape of the search industry is undergoing fundamental change. In particular, there is a growing realisation that the true value of search is best realised by embedding it a wider discovery context, so that in addition to facilitating basic...
Organisation: Endeca
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 01 June 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Within this talk, a new (small) theory of learning with technology will be presented, which is grounded in methodical culturalism and activity theory. The theory boils down to grounding the development of rich professional competence in sharing...
Organisation: IET, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 17 May 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes, in-car systems, games consoles, interactive whiteboards: the range and sophistication of Internet-enabled devices that users are working and learning with has expanded dramatically in recent years, and when...
Organisation: Institute for Educational Cybernetics, University of Bolton
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 10 May 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
Inter-widget communication is one of the foundations for achieving flexibility and interactivity in widget-based environments, and therefore in MUP/PLEs. In this talk, systems for inter-widget communication in Web applications will be discussed. A...
Organisation: School of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 03 May 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
This talk will introduce the approach of "partial semantic interoperability" to help widgets communicate and understand each other. An important requirement of the approach is how it scales to the current situation with hundreds of thousands of...
Organisation: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 26 April 2011
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MUP/PLE lecture series
This talk outlines an approach for mapping what various systems have to offer with respect to the MUPPLE perspective. The mapping is based on a wide range of features that can be supported by a system or not. Similar features are grouped into...
Organisation: Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 26 April 2011
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MUP/PLE Lecture Series
In this talk, underlying social media models will be discussed. Their potential to understand the interaction processes, to implement recommendation and to enforce trust will be illustrated. A special focus will be placed on capturing context in...
Organisation: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 12 April 2011
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Contextualized Knowledge Repositories for the Semantic Web
Though, most of the knowledge available in the Semantic Web is context-dependent, this aspect is not explicitly supported by semantic web representation languages. Some extensions to cope with this limitation have been studied, however, none seems...
Organisation: Data and Knowledge Management, FBK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 05 April 2011
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Towards Understanding the Motivation Behind Tagging
While recent research has advanced our understanding about the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about (i) the underlying motivations for tagging (why users tag), and (ii) how they influence the properties of resulting...
Organisation: Graz University of Technology
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 30 March 2011
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Searching Images: Recent research at Southampton
Southampton has a long history of research in the areas of multimedia information analysis. This talk will focus on some of the recent work we have been involved with in the area of image search. The talk will start by looking at how image content...
Organisation: University of Southampton
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 23 March 2011
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Beyond Best Practices: Reflections on how IBIS and Compendium fit into collaborative project delivery (and a book preview)
Seven Sigma have been successfully using IBIS, Compendium and Dialogue Mapping as a core part of our practice for several years in combination with other collaborative project delivery tools and techniques. More recently, Seven Sigma’s Paul...
Organisation: Seven Sigma Business Solutions
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 24 February 2011
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Syntactic measuring of language distances
Beyond its theoretical success, the development of molecular biology has brought about the possibility of extraordinary progress in the historical study of classification and distribution of different species and different human populations,...
Organisation: University of Trieste
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 17 December 2010
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Problem solving and mathematical knowledge
I will give a brief retrospective on the past year at KMi and talk a little bit about what brought me here in the first place! I will then spend the rest of the time discussing my plan for the next two years. Succinctly, the plan is to build a...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 10 December 2010
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Wisdom of Crowds vs. Wisdom of Linguists
Computing the semantic relatedness between words is a pervasive task in natural language processing. So far, insufficient coverage of linguistic knowledge resources has been a major impediment for using semantic relatedness measures in large-scale...
Organisation: Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing lab, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 December 2010
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LSA-based Cognitive Models
This seminar concerns the design of technology enhanced learning environments to improve their learning through reading and writing activities. So far, We have tested (1) The effect of informative feedback on the computerized note-taking from an...
Organisation: Université Pierre-Mendès-France
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 01 December 2010
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Web of People -- Improving Search on the Web
More and more information is available on the Web, and the current search engines do a great job to make it accessible. Yet, optimizing for a large number of users, they usually provide good answers only to “most of us", and have yet to provide...
Organisation: Learning Lab Lower Saxony [L3S], University of Hannover, Germany
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 26 November 2010
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Rewiring the web with Mozilla Add-ons SDK
In the first part I will present the motivation behind the Jetpack Prototype, highlight the achievements of the Jetpack for Learning Design Challenge, the reasons behind the Jetpack “Reboot” into Jetpack SDK (Mozilla Add-ons SDK). Then I will...
Organisation: Talis
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 November 2010
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Integrating Human & Machine Document Annotation for Sensemaking
Simon Buckingham Shum, Ágnes Sándor, Anna De Liddo & Michelle Bachler We report on progress made during the collaboration between KMi's Hypermedia Discourse Group and Ágnes Sándor (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Parsing & Semantics Group)....
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 11 November 2010
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LUCERO
LUCERO (Linking University Content for Education and Research Online) is a new 1 year JISC-funded project at the Open University. Led by KMi, LUCERO (which means 'Bright Star' in Spanish) is a collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and the Open...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 03 November 2010
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Dynamics of online peer production and collaborative sensemaking
This talk consists of two parts: the first part focusses on a study of the dynamics of online peer production systems; the second discusses crowdsourcing strategies to semantically structure a large body of knowledge. Despite a large interest in...
Organisation: Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 02 November 2010
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Investigating Web APIs on the World Wide Web
The world of services on the Web, thus far limited to "classical" Web services based on WSDL and SOAP, has been increasingly marked by the domination of Web APIs, characterised by their relative simplicity and their natural suitability for the Web....
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 October 2010
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An Approach Towards a Heartbeat Sound Information Retrieval System
Interpretation of heart sounds can be a problematic and difficult task for cardiology specialists. Diagnosis of heart diseases requires special skill and clinical experience along with detailed and expensive tests. However, heart disease diagnosis...
Organisation: Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 01 October 2010
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Experiments in understanding and QA of a very large Ontology
SNOMED-CT is a very large (450,000 concept) terminology based on a subset of description logic. Until recently, it was published only in "classified" form in a set of distribution tables. Although everybody knows the hierarchies contain many...
Organisation: University of Manchester
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 23 September 2010
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Automatic generation of personalized tutorial feedback in e-learning
We are arguably in the midst of a transition from traditional classroom learning (c-learning) to electronic and mostly individual learning (e-learning). One of the problems we are facing today is that feedback given automatically by a computer is...
Organisation: KU Leuven, Belgium
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 September 2010
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Computing for Human Experience
Today, systems, devices, sensors, data and human participation enable something more than a “human instructs machine” paradigm. Traditionally, we had to artificially simplify the complexity and richness of the real world to constrained computer...
Organisation: Kno.e.sis, Wright State University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 10 September 2010
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The Reason That Search Engines Are Fast But Not Very Accurate
Search Engine Efficiency has been an active field of Information Retrieval research for many years and the literature is vast. When implementing a search engine it is necessary to wade through this literature and to make engineering decisions on...
Organisation: University of Otago (New Zealand)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 July 2010
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Exploring the research world
In this short talk I will give an overview on ideas for using new technologies such as multi touch, tabletops and more to assist researchers in various tasks. We think of it as a research suite, where we go from very small devices and displays, such...
Organisation: Hypermedia and Databases (HMDB) unit, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 23 June 2010
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Flexible learning: Student perspective
This talk will give an overview of the research carried on a the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences in Stockholms' University. It will especially focus on ongoing work related to multimedia management in relation with learning...
Organisation: Stockholms Universitet
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 17 June 2010
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A Semantic Web for Mathematics - Logic, Linguistics, and Management
This talk gives an overview over recent work on the building a Semantic Web for Mathematics (SWM). We want to realize this envisioned SWM as a flexiformal digital library that contains semantically annotated mathematical documents ranging from from...
Organisation: Jacobs University, Germany
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 19 May 2010
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A Debate Dashboard to Support the Adoption of Online Knowledge Mapping Tools
Several web tools, also known as argument mapping tools, have been developed so far, which apply an organizational and visualization approach based on argument mapping. An argument map is a representation of reasoning in which the evidential...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 March 2010
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The SocialLearn Project
SocialLearn is exploring the potential of the social web for learning and sensemaking (both academic, and in the workplace) with specific interest in how different OU communities might benefit (e.g. students, staff, researchers, alumni). In this...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 18 March 2010
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Greenstone Tales
The Greenstone software typifies what we have perhaps come to think of as the "classic" form of digital library: Web based with access to content through searching and browsing. Countless digital libraries have been formed with Greenstone since its...
Organisation: University of Waikato, New Zealand
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 11 February 2010
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The SLOODLE Virtual World Learning Environment
In this presentation, Daniel Livingstone will outline the open-source SLOODLE project. SLOODLE integrates two very distinct learning environments – Second Life and Moodle. SLOODLE hopes to build on the distinct strengths of both while also...
Organisation: University of West Scotland
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 30 November 2009
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The Wolfram|Alpha approach to knowledge
In May, a new computational knowledge engine, Wolfram|Alpha, was launched. By layering computational knowledge on large sets of curated, semantically marked up data, it attempts to provide direct bespoke answers to users queries. This talk will...
Organisation: Wolfram Research
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 25 November 2009
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Me and my data
Alternative ways to look at interoperability and feed infrastructures, and how we can automatically detect different types of data, even without adding more metadata to existing feed standards... and how this can facilitate rather effortless...
Organisation: Open Universiteit Nederland
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 06 November 2009
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An Adaptive Four-factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval
In order to bridge the "Semantic gap", a number of relevance feedback (RF) mechanisms have been applied to content-based image retrieval (CBIR). However current RF techniques in most existing CBIR systems still lack satisfactory user interaction...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 23 September 2009
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The Digital Enterprise Research Institute - A Web Science Institute
In my talk I will present different work streams and results of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute in Galway, ranking from Semantic Social Software over the Semantic Desktop to Sensor Networks. DERI has been setup to conduct research on...
Organisation: DERI, Galway
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 21 September 2009
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From Web Personalisation to Collective Intelligence
The rate at which new media technologies impact on our lives is accelerating. Broadcast media (such as TV and radio) are less than a century old but we cannot imagine a world without them. The Web, and specifically, Web 2.0, has brought about a...
Organisation: Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly (CERETETH, Greece)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 14 September 2009
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Interactive Information Retrieval: Beyond Precision and Recall
Traditionally, Information Retrieval has been concerned with matching some query against a collection of text documents, images, videos or sound files. Research in this field has mostly tried to improve how well retrieval happens. But, this approach...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 09 September 2009
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Evaluation Conferences - Like Gladiators for the Retrieval World?
The purpose of this talk is to review some evaluation conferences in the field of image and video retrieval. The main goal of these evaluation conferences is to support research within the information retrieval community by providing the...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 05 August 2009
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Network Visualization: at the age of infinite interconnectedness
http://visualcomplexity.com (VC) is a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. With over 600 projects, the goal is to leverage a critical understanding of...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 16 July 2009
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Scalable Query Answering over Linked Ontological Data
Scalable query answering over ontologies is one of the most useful and important services to support Semantic Web applications. For example, more and more ontological vocabulary used in linked data. Approximation has been identified as a potential...
Organisation: University of Aberdeen, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 15 July 2009
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Virtual Balls - entertaining an audience
This seminar will discuss augmented reality gaming in the context of entertaining an auditorium. We will discuss the use of visual input for game interaction and some of the design and technical considerations. This should be fun and informative for...
Organisation: Gjøvik University College, Norway
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 29 June 2009
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Searching Images to Find Information
Image search has a large variety of potential applications. The obvious one is of course searching images given a text query. I discuss research into how this may be done using statistical models (relevance models) to automatically annotate and...
Organisation: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 12 June 2009
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Socio-Semantic Web Meets NLP: Wikipedia and Wiktionary as Lexical Semantic Resources
The rise of Web 2.0 and the so called Socio-Semantic technologies in recent years has led to huge amounts of user generated content produced by ordinary users on the Web. This content called for user-generated tagging to enable better information...
Organisation: Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 29 May 2009
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KANNEL: a Framework for Detecting and Managing Relations between Ontologies in Large Ontology Repository.
Ontologies are the pillars of the Semantic Web (SW) and, as more and more ontologies are made available online, the SW is quickly taking shape. As a result, the research community is becoming more and more aware that ontologies are not isolated...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 27 May 2009
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Semantic Business Process Analysis
Business Process Management (BPM) aims to support the whole life-cycle necessary to deploy and maintain business processes within organisations. An important step of the BPM life-cycle is the analysis of the processes deployed in companies. However,...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 20 May 2009
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Exploring Semantic Hits
SemSearchXplorer is a toolkit for the exploration of semantic data. The goal is to lower barriers to access information in semantic data repositories. Therefore SemSearchXplorer supports the user in three respects: (1) It supports querying of the...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 06 May 2009
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Interaction Design for Multimedia Technology
Current R&D in Multimedia technology is advancing in a fierce rate and will sure to become part of our important regular items in a 'conventional' technology inventory in near future. While the R&D nature of this technology means its accuracy,...
Organisation: Centre for Digital Video Processing, CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, Dublin City University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 29 April 2009
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All You Can Eat Ontology-Building: Feeding Wikipedia to Cyc
In order to achieve a genuinely intelligent World Wide Web, it seems that building some kind of general machine-readable ontology is an inescapable task. Yet the past 20 years have shown that hand-coding formal ontologies is not practicable. A...
Organisation: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 April 2009
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Map/Reduce in Multimedia IR
An overview of recent work exploiting the open source distributed computation framework Hadoop in image feature extraction and data analysis.
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 15 April 2009
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The FlashMeeting Project: an Update
Flashmeeting is a desktop video conferencing tool developed entirely within KMi and which is now unbelievably nearly 5 years old! During this time it has proved an invaluable tool for many people e.g. for project meetings and particularly EU project...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 01 April 2009
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Rule Generation and Matchmaking in Context-Aware System
Aiming at solving the problem that rules in the existing context-aware systems are manually specified by developers or users, an automatic rule generation method is proposed. Context-aware systems are regarded as decision systems, and context...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 March 2009
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The Eurogene project
The current results of the Eurogene project will be presented. The project makes use of semantic technologies to describe learning resources in human genetics through metadata annotation using appropriate domain ontologies. Annotated educational...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 March 2009
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Semantic annotation and Semantic search in Cultural Heritage.
In our research we investigate to what extent explicit semantics can be used to support end users with the exploration of large heterogeneous collections. In particular we consider cultural heritage, a knowledge-rich domain in which collections are...
Organisation: Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 December 2008
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Opening up Educational Materials to the World: Many Surprising Benefits and Some Unexpected Perils
Shigeru Miyagawa has been at MIT since 1991, where he is Professor of Linguistics and holds the endowed chair, Kochi-Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture. In linguistics, he has a monograph to be published by MIT Press in 2009, Why...
Organisation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcast date: Friday 28 November 2008
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Can a probabilistic image annotation system be improved using a co-occurrence approach?
The research challenge that we address in this work is to examine whether a traditional automated annotation system can be improved by using external knowledge. Traditional means any machine learning approach together with image analysis techniques....
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 26 November 2008
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Exploiting Repeated Mobility Patterns in Future Wireless Networks
The work is funded by Ericsson Sweden under the project : CAMP (Context Aware Mobility Project) This talk will discuss two research questions: 1. How to exploit people’s social encounters to improve the content delivery performance and lower...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 November 2008
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Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture
Finding RDF individuals that refer to the same real-world entities but have different URIs is necessary for the efficient use of data across sources. The requirements for such instance-level integration of RDF data are different from both database...
Organisation: Computing Research Centre, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 24 September 2008
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Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) -an introduction and an update
A general talk about the Enabling Remote Activity (ERA) project, no previous knowledge required. We will introduce the ERA project- originally a request in 2006 from Earth and Environmental Sciences to help support a mobility impaired student...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 September 2008
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Managing Personal Libraries of Broadcast TV Content
This is a general talk about our experiences of developing digital video search technologies since 1999 at the Centre for Digital Video Processing at Dublin City University. No prior knowledge is required. As the volume of digital video data in...
Organisation: Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 10 September 2008
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Digital Literacy: Thinking Skills in the Digital Era
Operating modern digital environments such as computer software and digital instruments, requires users to master a large variety of cognitive, motor, sociological, and emotional skills, collectively termed "digital literacy". Mastering digital...
Organisation: Open University of Israel
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 02 September 2008
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Double talk
Barry Norton, Ontology-based Behavioural Semantics for Business Processes We present the Business Process Modelling Ontology, developed in the SUPER project, and a Behavioural Reasoning Ontology which confers process algebraic behavioural...
Organisation: Solutions Architect, Ontotext
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 20 August 2008
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Improving Data Integration through Disambiguation Techniques
In this talk I will show how disambiguation techniques can be use to improved Data Integration. In particular, I will briefly illustrate how performing the disambiguation of source elements can supply some useful relationships for the integration...
Organisation: University of Modena e Reggio
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 23 July 2008
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Information Retrieval and Quantum Theory
In this talk I will illustrate how Quantum Theory can be used to model Information Retrieval. In particular, I will briefly illustrate some previous work in this area, such the ones by van Rijsbergen ("The Geometry of Information Retrieval", CUP...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 16 July 2008
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Resolution Mosaic Image Segmentation
Due to the popularity of visual-based information in the forms of images and videos, more computer vision systems take part in the automation of diverse applications, such as medical diagnosing, monitoring and security. Segmentation is a necessary...
Organisation: Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 09 July 2008
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The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park
In collaboration with Bletchley Park Trust, we are establishing The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. Bletchley is home to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, and to the UK's contribution to World War II code...
Organisation: The National Museum of Computing
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 June 2008
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Semantically Enriching Folksonomies Using FLOR
While the increasing popularity of folksonomies has lead to a vast quantity of tagged data, resource retrieval in folksonomies is limited by being agnostic to the meaning (i.e., semantics) of tags. Our goal is to automatically enrich folksonomy...
Organisation: KMi
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 28 May 2008
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Conceptual Situation Spaces for Situation-Driven Processes
Context-awareness is a highly desired feature across several application domains. Semantic Web Services (SWS) technologies address context-adaptation by enabling the automatic discovery of distributed Web services for a given task based on...
Organisation: Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 21 May 2008
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Debategraph-building a global debate map
Debategraph is a creative commons venture launched in March 2008 with the goal of creating a free, web-based global map of public debate, in which every argument on every side of every contentious issue is open for all to explore and for all to...
Organisation: Debategraph
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 26 March 2008
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What's Implicit in Space
The talk will introduce a geometric model and its investigation in the context of enhanced implicit feedback tailored for each task and personalized for each user. The geometric model leverages recent advances of vector space-based information...
Organisation: Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Italy
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 25 March 2008
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Evolving Web, Evolving Search
Web is evolving from time to time, more and more intelligent search engines are also emerging over time. the Traditional Web is composed of many unstructured Web pages. These pages are linked together and mainly for human reading. We focus on how to...
Organisation: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 04 March 2008
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Po-210: The London poisoning and the medical implications
The death of Alexander Litvinenko on 23 November 2006 has elevated the prospect of a deliberate radiation poisoning from a theoretical possibility to a reality. This was an unprecedented event in the UK that was certainly not the work of an...
Organisation: School of Human Development, Department of Medical Physics, University of Nottingham
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 15 February 2008
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The Talis Platform: A Generic Infrastructure for Next Generation Web Applications
The Talis Platform provides a generic infrastructure for building data-rich Web and Semantic Web applications. By taking care of the "heavy lifting" associated with data management and storage, developers are freed up to concentrate on building...
Organisation: Talis
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 February 2008
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Just In Time Learning
Rapid and accelerating changes in job skills and knowledge requirements call for learning responses of increasing complexity. Core life-long learning is necessary to function as thoughtful and productive humans in society. Varieties of on-the-job...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 08 February 2008
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An Open Rating System for Collaborative Ontology Evaluation
Open Rating Systems provide a means for obtaining many opinions on content from different people. The basic idea is that when seeking advice, people turn to someone they trust and whose opinion they value. Based on statements about the perceived...
Organisation: AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (TH)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 31 January 2008
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Expert Finding - Academia vs. Practice
With the start of an enterprise search track at TREC in 2005, the search for topical expertise has recently received quite some attention in the academic world. The practical value of an expert finding system is evident. Connecting people to...
Organisation: Teezir search solutions
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 09 January 2008
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Comparing Dissimilarity Measures for Content-Based Image Retrieval
Dissimilarity measurement plays a crucial role in content-based image retrieval, where data objects and queries are represented as vectors in high-dimensional content feature spaces. Given the large number of dissimilarity measures that exist, a...
Organisation: KMi - The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 07 January 2008
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What is happening in a meeting?
This is an introduction to a proposed collaboration between National Institute of Informatics, Japan and KMi on developing method of analysis and tools for understanding what is happening in a meeting. The long-term goal is to capitalize...
Organisation: Honiden Laboratory, Intelligent Research System Division, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 December 2007
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ALOE
In this presentation the requirements of a framework for sharing digital resources and metadata to meet the needs of open, flexible e-learning solutions will be discussed. The changing nature of the Web and its users as observed in recent years...
Organisation: German Research Center for AI
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 28 November 2007
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Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies
Automated ontology population using information extraction algorithms can produce inconsistent knowledge bases. Confidence values assigned by the extraction algorithms may serve as evidence helping to repair produced inconsistencies. Dempster-Shafer...
Organisation: Computing Research Centre, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 07 November 2007
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Adaptive information retrieval - Issues & strategies for Evaluation
Despite the prodigious efforts expended on IR research over the past 30-40 years, and some remarkable breakthroughs, major issues in information seeking process remains unresolved. A major contributory factor is difficulty of formulating one's...
Organisation: Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 October 2007
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An Evaluation Framework for Semantic Metadata
Because poor quality semantic metadata can destroy the effectiveness of semantic web technology by hampering applications from producing accurate results, it is important to have frameworks that support their evaluation. However, there is no such...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 24 October 2007
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Face Recognition Robust to Large Pose Angle from one Gallery
In recent years, the use of Intelligent Closed-Circuit Television (ICCTV) for crime prevention and detection has attracted significant attention. Existing face recognition systems require passport-quality photos to achieve good performance. However,...
Organisation: National ICT Australia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 September 2007
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Discovering the semantics of user keywords
Nowadays the Web is an information resource with an enormous potential. However this potential is not fully exploited by traditional search methods which not consider explicit semantics. In this talk, a system that discovers the intended meaning of...
Organisation: University of Zaragoza, Spain
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 05 September 2007
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Improving Lucene's geographical data search performance with R-trees
Lucene, a state-of-the-art open source information retrieval library, is an efficient solution for indexing and searching textual data. However, some Lucene usage scenarios require handling of geographically augmented data, that is, text documents...
Organisation: Imperial College London, Department of Computing
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 24 August 2007
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Using Query Contexts in Information Retrieval
User query is an element that specifies an information need, but it is not the only one. Studies in literature have found many contextual factors that strongly influence the interpretation of a query. Recent studies have tried to consider the user's...
Organisation: University of Montreal, Canada
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 31 July 2007
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OpenKnowledge
Dave Robertson will give an LCC Tutorial for the OpenKnowledge project participants. Related Links: OpenKnowledge
Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 02 July 2007
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Information-Theoretic Semantic Multimedia Indexing
To solve the problem of indexing collections with diverse text documents, image documents, or documents with both text and images, one needs to develop a model that supports heterogeneous types of documents. In this paper, we show how information...
Organisation: Imperial College London, and KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 27 June 2007
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Assumption-based argumentation
Argumentation has proven to be a useful abstraction mechanism for understanding several problems, for example non-monotonic, defeasible reasoning in artificial intelligence, legal reasoning, several forms of practical reasoning performed by...
Organisation: Imperial College London, Department of Computing
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 11 June 2007
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HCI, Digital Libraries and Multimedia
This workshop brings together experts from HCI, Digital Libraries and Multimedia to look at challenges, synergies, problems and solutions in the wider area of Multimedia Digital Libraries.
Organisation: Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 01 June 2007
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Open Source Digital Library Software: Building bridges not islands using Greenstone
A prominent digital library researcher recently likened the development of open source digital library software as "more like stepping on the toes of others rather than standing on the shoulders of giants". The remark (said more out of exasperation...
Organisation: University of Waikato, New Zealand
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 30 May 2007
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Towards Adaptive Information Retrieval - Step 1: Collecting Real Data
One of the most exciting areas of research in search engine technology and information retrieval is the move towards "adaptive" search systems. A particularly promising aspect of this wide field is to move log analysis right in the centre of...
Organisation: University of Essex, Department of Computer Science, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 25 May 2007
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Bridging the Gap Between Folksonomies and the Semantic Web
While folksonomies allow tagging of similar resources with a variety of tags, their content retrieval mechanisms are severely hampered by being agnostic to the relations that exist between these tags. To overcome this limitation, several methods...
Organisation: KMi
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 21 May 2007
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From Tag Clouds to Tag Webs
In this seminar I'll present results from the formative evaluation of ClaimSpotter, an experimental semantic social tagging tool developed in Bertrand Sereno's PhD, and presented at the WWW'07 CKC workshop: When they publish their work, researchers...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 16 May 2007
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A Socio-Technical Approach for Topic Community Member Selection
There is a multitude of very complex and interconnected political, socio-economic and environmental issues facing our globalizing society. To address these, topic communities are essential of experts and stakeholders collaborating closely for a...
Organisation: CommunitySense, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 14 May 2007
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Musical Genre Classification and Musical Similarity Determination from Audio
Recently, there has been a revolution in the way that music has been delivered to users. The universal availability of broadband to the home and the development of cheap, high-capacity MP3 players has led to an exponential growth in music...
Organisation: School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 10 May 2007
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Morpholingua: Shape Language and its application to Archaeology
I will describe the elements of a shape language for 2D and 3D objects, and illustrate its potential in particular in the field of archaeology. This early version of a shape language builds on the work and collaboration from the fields of...
Organisation: Digital Studios, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 30 April 2007
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How to Combine Web2.0 and the Semantic Web
It is not uncommon to view Web2.0 and the Semantic Web as mutually exclusive, competing paths to the Web of the future, each advocated by a distinct community. We argue that the two approaches are in fact complementary, and that both face challenges...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 23 April 2007
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Integrating Google Maps into MSG
The integration of Google maps into MSG instant messenger gives users the opportunity to find where their contacts are located geographically, their presence status and provides 'click to chat' functionality. The MSG presence maps will be going live...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 April 2007
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Effective Integration of Declarative Rules with External Evaluations for Semantic Web Reasoning
The Semantic Web vision needs formalisms for the Rule Layer that guarantee transparent interoperability with the Ontology Layer, clear semantics and full declarativity. HEX programs is a rule language featuring higher-order atoms, external atoms,...
Organisation: Department of Mathematics of University of Calabria
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 26 March 2007
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Capturing, Mapping and Integrating Argumentation as Project Memory in Participatory Urban Planning
Technology is increasingly providing urban planners and designers with tools and methods to collect and communicate spatial data and assist spatial analysis, such as participatory GIS (PPGIS), urban modelling, simulation models and virtual...
Organisation: Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 21 March 2007
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A Study of Knowledge Management Practices in Selected Industries in India
As markets shift, uncertainty dominates, technologies proliferate, competitors multiply and products and services become obsolete, successful companies are characterised by their ability to consistently create, disseminate and use new knowledge....
Organisation: AESPG Institute of Business Management Ahmedabad, India
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 15 March 2007
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Supporting Context-Awareness and Standards Interoperability in e-Learning
Current technologies aimed at supporting learning goals primarily follow a data and metadata-centric paradigm aimed at providing the learner with appropriate learning content packages containing the learning process description as well as the...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 March 2007
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Background-based Ontology Mapping
Ontology matching is one of the most urgent and important problems on the Semantic Web. In the recent years it became apparent that using existing ontologies to mediate the matching process can have tremendous benefit as compared to the traditional...
Organisation: Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 01 March 2007
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Agents, Information and Negotiation
Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position along five dimensions: Legitimacy, Options, Goals, Independence, and Commitment, (LOGIC). We introduce a negotiation model based on these dimensions and on two primitive concepts: intimacy...
Organisation: Institute of Research on Artificial Intelligence of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 20 February 2007
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Semantic Multimedia Information: Mining, Fusion and Extraction
The extraction of semantic information from multimedia content is a research area that faces multiple challenges: scalability; data scarcity; multiple statistical models for each modality; computational limitations when processing large-scale...
Organisation: Imperial College London, and KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 14 February 2007
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The Shape of Different Public Online Meetings
The idea of virtual meetings is far from new, with the first video phone released by AT&T in the 60's, making it possible to conduct business with remote colleagues, reducing travel costs and environmental aggravation. Recently,...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 07 February 2007
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Towards Changing the Relationship between Business and IT via Semantic Web Services
A number of new technologies are emerging which over the next 5-10 years will radically change the relationship between a business and its IT infrastructure. In this talk I will give an overview of the EU funded SUPER Integrated Project which aims...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 January 2007
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Information Retrieval and Language Model based Expert Search
Both research and industry communities are paying lots of attention to expert search recently. Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) has organized expert search task for 2005 and 2006. We have participated in TREC 2006 expert search task and achieved the...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 24 January 2007
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An introduction to open copyright and software licensing
The presentation will cover copyright's position as one of the intellectual property rights and how it differs from other intellectual property rights. It will give an overview of what copyright protects as well as what may be done with copyright...
Organisation: Head of Intellectual Property, The Open University, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 18 January 2007
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Uncertainty Handling in the Context of Ontology Mapping for Question-Answering
The combination of different similarity methods in the current ontology mapping approaches can considerably increase the quality of the mappings however uncertainty caused by incomplete or inconsistent data has received relatively little attention...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 January 2007
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Placename Disambiguation with Co-occurrence Models
My talk will cover an introduction to Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) and the advantages provided by indexing placenames as unambiguous locations. I will describe our GIR system which generates a large-scale co-occurrence model and applies...
Organisation: Imperial College London, and KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 06 December 2006
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How and why to study the future?
Although all formal education is predicated on the idea that its objective is to prepare people for the future, it in fact does very little of the sort, spending most of its efforts teaching about the past. To many, especially educators, the future...
Organisation:
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 05 December 2006
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Local Similarity Search for Content-based Image Retrieval
The goal of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is to provide the user with a way to browse or retrieve images from large collections based on visual similarity. At the heart of any CBIR system are visual features that have been extracted from...
Organisation: Imperial College London, and KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 29 November 2006
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An ontology-based system to represent and support students' navigation of philosophical resources
Philosophy is one of the fields of study where abstract entities (such as "self", "mind" or "good") constitute the core of what is treated. Although some work exists that tries to model mental content (e.g. "ideas") using formal semantics, modeling...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 November 2006
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Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping
While current approaches to ontology mapping produce good results by mainly relying on label and structure based similarity measures, there are several cases in which they fail to discover important mappings. In this paper we describe a novel...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 15 November 2006
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Narrative, Multimodality and Multimedia Content Analysis: computing words, pictures and stories
Semantic technologies for the production, dissemination, retrieval and browsing of multimedia information all require the generation of machine-processable descriptions of the meanings conveyed by the multimedia information, i.e. its content. ...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 07 November 2006
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Modelling Knowledge Management Systems of a Distance Education Institution, supported by Semantic Web Technology
Knowledge management is important to every organisation, especially to distance education institutions where staff are geographically dispersed, and students are separated from the university, tutors and classmates. What are the main knowledge...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 01 November 2006
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Improving Web Search using Trust and Social Networks
Conventional search engines treat all users the same. Relevance is seen as a relationship between a query and a resource, ignoring aspects of the user's information need that are not explicit in the query. This contrasts with offline information...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 25 October 2006
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Semantic Wikipedia
Within only a few years, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia has become one of the most important online knowledge sources. The project "Semantic MediaWiki" engages in the conception and development of semantic extensions of MediaWiki – the software...
Organisation: Institute AIFB of the Universität Karlsruhe
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 23 October 2006
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Efficient Re-indexing of Automatically Annotated Image Collections Using Keyword Combination
I will present a framework for improving the image index obtained by automated image annotation. Within this framework, the technique of keyword combination is used for fast image re-indexing based on initial automated annotations. It aims to tackle...
Organisation: Multimedia and Information Systems Group, Dept of Computing, Imperial College London
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 20 October 2006
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IRS-III: A Broker for Semantic Web Services based Applications
In this talk we describe IRS-III which takes a semantic broker based approach to creating applications from Semantic Web Services by mediating between a service requester and one or more service providers. Business organisations can view Semantic...
Organisation: ISSL, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 18 October 2006
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What are Spatial Objects?
Does 80% of all data have a spatial component? What is spatiality anyway? Real geographic modelling is often not as sweet (DOLCE) as it should be. Mashups are taking over the world; why do we love them so much? And why are they so boring? We try to...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 04 October 2006
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Wikis of Locality
In this seminar we describe an emerging form of wikis - wikis of locality – that support physical rather than virtual communities. We draw on our experience as administrators of the Open Guide to Milton Keynes, one of the Open Guides family of...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 16 August 2006
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Fusing Automatically Extracted Semantic Annotations
The necessary precondition of the Semantic Web initiative is the availability of semantic data. Information, which at the moment is intended for human users, must be translated into a machine-readable format (RDF). Such a translation process is...
Organisation: Computing Research Centre, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 26 July 2006
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Amazon's web services strategy
Amazon spent ten years developing the world-class technology and content platform that powers the Amazon web site for millions of customers every day. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can build software applications leveraging the same robust,...
Organisation: Amazon Web Services
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 25 July 2006
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Conceptual Foundations for the Scholarly Semantic Web: Requirements, Ontology, and Services
The Web has transformed the way new scholars are introduced to their domains via timely access to its literature. However, once that literature has been accessed, there is not as much support for carrying out analytical tasks such as determining...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 19 July 2006
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Semantic Technology for Publication Metadata Management
Publication metadata is widely distributed on the Web across a variety of sources. A number of independent repositories (CiteSeer, DBLP etc.) provide varying qualities of information. Publishers of journals and proceedings also manage and expose...
Organisation: Vrije (Free) University, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 29 June 2006
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"The kind of thing that our age wants to do":
Myartspace is a service on mobile phones and the web for enquiry-led museum learning. It enables students to create their own interpretations of museum objects through descriptions, images and sounds. These are automatically transmitted to a...
Organisation: The SEA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 08 June 2006
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The Students Own Education
In today's online learning experience, the connections and content a student creates when taking a course can disappear at the end of the semester as access to the learning management system is terminated. A student, moreover, finds it necessary to...
Organisation: Institute for Information Technology, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 05 June 2006
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AM in FM - The Animation Mentor community p2p learning using FlashMeeting
Understanding the pedagogy of peer learning is one of the most important knowledge frontiers in research on educational technologies and indeed in education generally. The FlashMeeting research project on innovative online events has provided a...
Organisation: Group of Research in Educational Technology. University of Murcia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 23 May 2006
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Oohci methods and their use
The seminar will provide a description of a family of interactive system design methods called oohci methods. Oohci methods are model-based interactive system design methods that are used up-front in the system design lifecycle to define interactive...
Organisation: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 17 May 2006
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Approximation for the Semantic Web
Scalable reasoning for the Semantic Web is a crucial issue. Without scalability the Semantic Web will not be able to reason about the high and growing amount of data with respect to time performance and tolerant reasoning. Approximate reasoning...
Organisation: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 05 May 2006
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Model-based Security Engineering
The current state of the art in security-critical software is far from satisfactory: New security vulnerabilities are detected on an almost daily basis. To improve this situation, we develop techniques and tools that perform an automated analysis of...
Organisation: Technical University of Munich
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 25 April 2006
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Structure Analysis of Large Software Systems
We present two techniques for structure analysis that scale to large software systems. In the first part, we present CrocoPat, a tool for relational programming. Its language is illustrated on small examples, and some applications to software...
Organisation: Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 25 April 2006
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Using Formal Methods for the Analysis and Refinement of Policies
Policy-based approaches to systems management are gaining widespread interest because they allow the separation of the rules that govern the behavioural choices of a system from the functionality provided by that system. In order to deploy policy...
Organisation: Imperial College London
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 24 April 2006
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Architectural Description of Dependable Software Systems
The structure of a system is what enables it to generate the system's behaviour from the behaviour of its components. The architecture of a software system is an abstraction of the actual structure of that system. It should only be as complex as it...
Organisation: University of Newcastle
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Webcast date: Monday 24 April 2006
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Why Information Retrieval needs Cognitive Science: Three case studies and a call to arms
Much of today's success in Information Retrieval (IR) comes from a hard approach: employing blazingly fast machines, ever more refined statistics, and increasingly powerful classification schemes. In recent years, however, the hard approach has...
Organisation: Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 13 April 2006
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Ubiquitous Computing: A Research Grand Challenge
Pervasive or ubiquitous computing systems consist of large numbers of 'invisible' computers embedded into the environment which may interact with mobile users or form intelligent networks for sensing environmental conditions. Users will experience...
Organisation: Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 02 March 2006
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'Designing learnable mathematics: lessons from the WEBLABS project'
In this seminar, I will discuss the design and implementation of computer-based systems aimed at transforming mathematical learning. Drawing on findings of the recently-completed EU project, WebLabs, I will discuss how such systems can extend...
Organisation: Institute of Education, University of London
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 14 February 2006
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Language Technology in the Ontology Lifecycle
In this talk I will discuss and illustrate the role of language technology in the ontology lifecycle, specifically in regard to ontology selection, population, deployment and evolution. Solutions based on language technology for each of these steps...
Organisation: German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 13 January 2006
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Business Events: the Key to Discovering the Real Requirements
People often complain about scope creep. But often creep happens because there was no formal definition of the scope in the first place. We have discovered that you need a formal mechanism for keeping track of two aspects of scope: the scope of the...
Organisation: The Atlantic Systems Guild Ltd
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 09 January 2006
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Agent-based Modeling of Human Work & Information Systems
Representing how people do work can be done at many different levels. In the knowledge engineering and AI world, people?s work has been described in terms of their problem-solving expertise. There the theory is that we can model people?s...
Organisation: Human-Centered Computing, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 15 December 2005
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New Paradigms in Multimedia Management and Access
Digital Multimedia objects, in libraries or otherwise, hold the promise of being able to be indexed by their contents just as other documents can be indexed and searched by their full text. This talk presents new paradigms for digital knowledge...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 13 December 2005
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Synergistic serendipity
Modern computers have evolved from the beige box under the desk into an integral part of our environment and infrastructure. They are exceptional tools, offering great power and connectivity and allowing us to achieve things previously unimagined....
Organisation: Advanced Interaction Group, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 12 December 2005
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Information and communication in Context
This presentation reviews both security and information resource studies that highlight the important theme of social and organisational context. The first half of this talk reviews security in context. Studies are presented that highlight how...
Organisation: University College London Interaction Centre
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 08 December 2005
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Innovative Information and Knowledge Infrastructures
L3S research focuses on three key enablers for the European Information Society, namely Knowledge, Information and Learning, and combines this with a strong commitment to service to its affiliated universities in the field of eLearning. The first...
Organisation: Learning Lab Lower Saxony [L3S], University of Hannover, Germany
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 07 December 2005
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Computing with Word Meanings
Many language processing applications could benefit from knowing the intended meaning of each word in a piece of text. For example, one would not expect a question answering system when faced with the question 'Which plants thrive in chalky soil?'...
Organisation: Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 05 December 2005
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A Walk on the Web
Web research has no real boundaries but many connections between fields of related research. Even its internal categorisations are largely artificial. For example, what we call 'hypertext' has roots in information studies, literature and film, and...
Organisation: School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 30 November 2005
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XML retrieval and evaluation: the INEX experience
Providing effective access to XML-based content is what XML retrieval research is about. XML retrieval systems aim to exploit the logical structure of documents, which is explicitly represented by the XML markup, to retrieve document components...
Organisation: Yahoo! Research, Barcelona
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 17 November 2005
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Issues facing the Requirements Engineer - A Personal View
This talk will be in two parts. 1. What is going on out there? The speaker and colleagues conducted a questionnaire survey to find out what influences the requirements process in industry. The quantitative results were strikingly different...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 01 November 2005
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Challenges and Approaches to Engaging Stakeholders in Requirements Engineering
A key challenge in the development of systems is the engagement of domain experts in their articulation, agreement, and validation of requirements. This challenge is particularly pronounced at the early requirements phase when multiple stakeholders...
Organisation: Information Systems Group, School of Informatics, the University of Manchester, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 25 October 2005
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From Digital Libraries to Educational Cyberinfrastructure
Over the past decade, there have been a series of reports documenting problems and challenges facing science education across the United States, ranging from lack of student interest in science and science careers, teachers' lack of scientific...
Organisation: Center for LifeLong Learning and Design, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 13 October 2005
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Everest Spring 2005
For April and May 2005, adventurer Lorenzo Gariano was part of a ten-man collaborative expedition between 7summits.com and the 7summits club from Russia, led by Alex Abramov and Harry Kikstra, to the North Face of Everest. This evening he will...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 12 October 2005
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Three Aspects of Requirements Engineering
In this talk I shall briefly remind the participants of the basic context of requirements engineering, and then discuss three particular aspects. One is the span of a requirement: that is, how far the subject matter of one requirement extends in...
Organisation: Department of Computing, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 11 October 2005
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SAKAI tools and architecture
SAKAI is a US based project developing open source tools for learning environments. This talk will look at the development of such tools and give an update on the project. Charles is currently a Software Architect at the University of Michigan...
Organisation: University of Michigan Duderstadt Center, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 28 September 2005
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Issues in social mobile computing
What is social mobile computing? This is a talk in two parts. In the first part, I'll outline what Intel Research Seattle is doing in the area of Social Mobile Computing. This is a new research area, focused on interactions between people that...
Organisation: Intel Research Laboratory, Seattle, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 23 September 2005
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Getting campus-based eLearning into the blender
Some ICT learning research initiatives are described which are argued to reflect worrying forms of influence on undergraduate study practices. The paper argues for more imaginative innovation along the route of "blended learning". Several case...
Organisation: Learning Sciences Research Institute at Nottingham University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 07 July 2005
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End-user software engineering
In this talk, we will consider what happens when we add to end-user programming environments consideration of the software lifecycle beyond the "coding" phase. Considering other phases seems necessary, because there is ample evidence that end users'...
Organisation: Oregon State University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 28 June 2005
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Pervasive Possibilities as Publishing
CRC Seminar Many of the challenges of ubiquitous computing (including location and context awareness) and those of the semantic web align along some very interesting axes. This talk will discuss how emerging semantic technologies such as...
Organisation: Digital Media Lab, Office of Technology, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 22 June 2005
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The Clockwork Project
In the talk, the results of the CEC supported project ?Creating Learning Organisations with Contextualised Knowledge-rich Work Artefacts? (Clockwork, 2001-2003) will be presented. The main objectives addressed in the project were: ? ...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 07 June 2005
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Multi-Agent Ontology Mapping framework Based on Evidence Theory for a Question Answering System
In my presentation I will introduce an experimental multi agent ontology-mapping framework in the AQUA query answering system that incorporates uncertainty handling inherent to the mapping process. The framework uses Dempster-Shafer theory of...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 06 June 2005
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Human-Computer Cohabitation
Information technology is designed, but for most of us most of the time it is part of our natural environment. Design intent and requirements play less of a role in our experience of IT than the affordances that technology presents in contexts of...
Organisation: Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 23 May 2005
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A Minimum Effort Distributed Library for KMi
John's original challenge was this: "So Tom if you manage to setup a running system (technology + people) which captures over 50% of what is on the shelves in KMi and maintains this for at least 3 months I'll buy you a bottle of champagne (or...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 19 May 2005
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Adaptation and dialogue modelling for speech-based interaction systems
The state-of-the-art speech and language technology has reached a level that allows us to build applications which enable users to have short conversations with the system in search for information like bus or train timetables, telephone numbers,...
Organisation: Professor of Language Technology, University of Helsinki
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 10 May 2005
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Information Inference Theory and Practice
In this talk, I will present a information inference framework we developed for mimicking human text based reasoning. The notion of "information inference" refers to the derivation of context sensitive implicit information carried by often short...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 10 May 2005
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Explainable Systems
When most current applications return answers, many users do not know what information sources were used, when they were updated, how reliable the source was, or what information was looked up versus derived. Many users also do not know how answers...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 09 May 2005
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Image retrieval by word association
Have you ever wanted to find an image or sound to illustrate an abstract concept? Or an image that is metaphorically associated with some text rather than described by the text? This talk will present research on how one can retrieve...
Organisation: Sharp Laboratories of Europe
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 09 May 2005
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Non-standard inference services in Description Logics for semantically annotated resource retrieval
A semantically annotated resource is any kind of good, tangible or intangible (e.g. a document, a image, a product, a service) endowed of a description that refers to a shared ontology. In this talk we present services that aim at fully...
Organisation: Information Technology Engineering, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 05 May 2005
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Towards a Science of Software Design
In his classic book titled "The Science of the Artificial" (published in 1969) Herbert Simon laments the fact that design is not taught in Engineering Schools, which instead clamor for scientific respectability. He then sketches what he calls a...
Organisation: University of Toronto/Trento
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 19 April 2005
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Beyond searching and browsing
The web provides a platform for users to perform many varied tasks; finding information, exploring new ideas, and communicating with others are just a few examples. However, not all tasks that users perform (or wish to perform) on the web are well...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 17 March 2005
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An investigation of the use of semantic web technologies to support learning
A search engine like google can help us find a list of resources, connected merely by a string similarity, and, as we know, many times it fails in answering our initial research question. Of course this happens because a computer can hardly...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 16 March 2005
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A Semantic Web-Based Architecture for Analytical Tools
Denilson will present the results of his research work developed in KMi for the last year. This talk is also related to a paper submitted to a conference (IEEE CEC 05). Despite the importance of analytical tools to organisations, they still lack...
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Webcast date: Monday 21 February 2005
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e-PhDs:
Event Homepage Welcome to the launch page for attending this hybrid physical/virtual event online. As a 'virtual participant' you will be using some...
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Webcast date: Friday 11 February 2005
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1st Symposium on Interoperability Issues in Semantic Web Sites
This workshop was the first in what is hoped to become a series of regular meetings aiming to make a significant push towards "the second generation Web" (as Semantic Web is also known). An initial goal is to achieve interoperability among so-far...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 07 February 2005
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Mining Knowledge from Textual Databases: An Approach using Ontology-based Context Vectors
The increase in research activities claim ways to discover patterns in order to understand the behavior of these activities as well as to manage the resources used to support them. In this paper we propose a semantic mining approach to knowledge...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 31 January 2005
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Aligning learning and creativity in education: Music composition as a domain to explore creative learning
When learning about a subject area in the classroom, the acquisition of a set of core concepts is often perceived as a prerequisite for students being able to comment intelligently on the subject domain, this generally involves the student's...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 13 December 2004
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Arguing for Intelligence: The Roles of Argumentation in AI
In contrast to the formal analysis of reasoned argument, pursued by mathematicians since the turn of the century, a small band of philosophers and linguists have been attempting to reconcile a formal, powerful analysis with the demands of real...
Organisation: Department of Applied Computing, University of Dundee, Scotland
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 09 December 2004
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First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services
This is a one-day workshop for discussing Semantic Web Services (SWS) in the context of Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT). We intend to support the interaction of research in different...
Organisation: ISSL, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 08 December 2004
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Building the future with weapons of maths construction
Computers are complex, unreliable and occasionally dangerous. What can be done? Familiar handheld calculators represent a microcosm of how computers are used, misused and misunderstood - and how we are stuck in the past. Calculators are so...
Organisation: Computer Science Department, University of Wales, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 18 November 2004
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Human and Robot Exploration on Mars or Moon
With the recent exciting events of NASA?s Mars Exploration Rovers and President Bush?s announcement for NASA to return to the Moon as a stepping stone for going to Mars with humans and robots, the debate about why we should send humans to do the...
Organisation: Human-Centered Computing, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 09 November 2004
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The role of layout in natural language processing (NLP)
This talk will present the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate between the message of a text (i.e., its discourse...
Organisation: Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 01 November 2004
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RAGS and beyond
The RAGS project ('Reference Architecture for Generation Systems'; Brighton/Edinburgh, EPSRC) aimed to build a concrete infrastructure for collaborative Natural Language Generation (NLG) research, founded on an apparent emerging architectural...
Organisation: Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 27 October 2004
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An Ontological Formalization of the Planning Task
In this paper we propose a generic task ontology, which formalizes the space of planning problems. Although planning is one of the oldest researched areas in Artificial Intelligence and attempts have been made in the past at developing task...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 25 October 2004
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The Discreet Charm of Meta
In dynamic environments, such as web-based cultural heritage sites, where neither the individual user requirements nor the requested material can be predicted in advance, an automated presentation generation process is required. For that, however,...
Organisation: CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 22 October 2004
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Magpie - a framework for developing semantic web applications
Magpie is a suite of tools both on client and server side that uses knowledge of a specific problem domain captured in a shared ontology, to semantically markup web documents on-the-fly. The user interacts with Magpie through a web browser plugin...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 18 October 2004
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Integrating Deep and Shallow Semantic Structures in Open Ontology Forge
Work in knowledge representation undertaken as part of the Semantic Web initiative has enabled a common infrastructure (Resource Description Framework (RDF) and RDF Schema) for sharing knowledge of ontologies and instances. In this talk I present a...
Organisation: National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 15 October 2004
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Digital resources in a complex web of perceptions
This presentation provides an overview of several studies into the use of digital resources within the academic and health domains and a wide variety of communities of practice (e.g. computer and media studies, hospital and patient information). The...
Organisation: University College London Interaction Centre
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 13 October 2004
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Learning Web Service Ontologies: Two Extraction Methods and their Evaluation
The promise of Semantic Web Services, that of automatic discovery and configuration of semantically described web services, depends on the existence of high quality ontologies that describe the domains of web services as well as their main...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 11 October 2004
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Building Collaborative Knowledge Representations in Real Time
Software tools for collaborative construction of knowledge representations have existed for several decades. Despite their potential, use of such tools has yet to grow beyond a small universe of academics and practitioners. My research is aimed at...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 05 October 2004
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Working In A Wired World
The BBC has been introducing a number of social networking tools, available to all staff through its intranet - Gateway, that are designed to increase collaboration and networking within the organisation. The ability for staff to find each other and...
Organisation: Director KM Solutions, BBC
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 20 September 2004
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Scholarly Hypertext
This talk is a recorded introduction by Simon Buckingham Shum, Hypertexts Programme Chair to the ACM Hypertext 2004, for the panel on Scholarly Hypertext, held August 9-13, 2004, Santa Cruz. It sets the context for...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 11 August 2004
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Cargo cult computer science
Arguably, computers and communications have changed the world more than any other science or technology. Yet there are a lot of failures, some prominent, many minor, and a widening gap between aspirations and reality - with environmental...
Organisation: Computer Science Department, University of Wales, United Kingdom
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 02 July 2004
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ODESeW v2.0. A framework for developing semantic web portals.
This talk presents ODESeW (*Se*mantic *W*eb Portal based on Web*ODE* platform) as an ontology-based application that automatically generates and manages a community knowledge portals, designed on the top of WebODE ontology engineering platform. This...
Organisation: Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 24 June 2004
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IRS support for OWL-S and WSMO
There is a great deal of work on developing ontologies (such as OWL-S and WSMO) for describing semantics of Web Services. IRS is one of the few existing systems (if not the only one) to support the Semantic Web Services technologies. I will show how...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 21 June 2004
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ESpotter: A Domain and User Adaptation Approach for Named Entity Recognition on the Web
Named entity recognition (NER) systems are commonly designed with a "one-size-fits-all" philosophy. Lexicons and patterns manually crafted or learned from a training set of documents are applied to any other document without taking into account its...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 14 June 2004
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Better Science Through Benchmarking: Lessons for Software Engineering
Benchmarking has been used to compare the performance of a variety of technologies, including computer systems, information retrieval systems, and database management systems. In these and other research areas, benchmarking has caused the science to...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 04 June 2004
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The role of user models in semantically rich applications
Delivering right information at the right time has been an adage of knowledge management for some time. In this talk Marek Hatala, an assistant professor from the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver,...
Organisation: Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 05 May 2004
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Approaches to Semantic Web Services: An Overview and Comparisons
A preview of a paper to be presented at ESWS 2004 (European Semantic Web Symposium). Abstract: The next Web generation promises to deliver Semantic Web Services (SWS); services that are self-described and amenable to automated discovery,...
Organisation: ISSL, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 04 May 2004
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Grassroots initiated networked communities: a viable method of overcoming multiple digital inequalities within communities of locality?
The UK government seeks to overcome the 'digital divide', and offering "internet access for all who want it" by 2005. It is unlikely, however, that this will be achieved through government funded interventions focussing primarily on achieving...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 19 April 2004
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ConcepTool: ontology representation and reasoning beyond frames and slots
Ontologies can be better (re)used if represented as conceptual models in a reasoning environment where they can be semantically analysed. The ConcepTool inferential ontology management system has been developed as a representation and reasoning...
Organisation: Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 31 March 2004
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Multimodal Representations as Basis for Cognitive Architecture Making
Abstract: In this talk, I outline a view of "cognitive state" as fundamentally multi-modal, i.e., as an integrated and interlinked collection of "images" in various modalities: the perceptual ones, and the kinesthetic and conceptual modalities....
Organisation: Ohio State University, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 26 March 2004
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Mental imagery, visualisation tools and team work
This talk will describe a series of empirical investigations into the relationship between mental imagery and software visualisation in professional, high-performance programming. It will describe why these programmers tend not to use commercially...
Organisation: Faculty of Maths and Computing, Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 22 March 2004
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Aesthetic Mediation Using Participatory Hypermedia
This talk looks at research aimed at extending the tradition of hypermedia support for decision-making, as in argumentation systems, and sense-making, as in spatial hypertext and concept mapping, by building on recent work in the conflict resolution...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 12 February 2004
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Towards Nootropia: a Non-Linear Approach to Adaptive Document Filtering
In recent years, it has become increasingly difficult for users to find relevant information within the accessible glut. Adaptive Information Filtering (AIF) tackles this problem through a tailored representation of the user interests, called "user...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 02 February 2004
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Engineering Semantics on the Web
In this talk I will discuss the various issues associated with the development and maintenance of semantic web sites, i.e., web sites augmented with semantic information, expressed using web-based knowledge representation languages, such as RDF or...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 16 January 2004
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Search Engine-Crawler Symbiosis: Adapting to Community Interests
Web crawlers have been used for nearly a decade as a search engine component to create and update large collections of documents in order to serve the widely varying needs of web users. Typically the crawler and the rest of the search engine are not...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 15 December 2003
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Tools and Technology for supporting scholars in their task of academic literature sense-making
ABSTRACT: Academics aim to construct knowledge claims about 'the world', position these claims within the accumulated knowledge of a particular discipline, and negotiate these claims within the expert community. Current information and communication...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 01 December 2003
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Towards a framework for evaluation of sensemaking support for information artefacts
ABSTRACT: This research is concerned with the challenges that organizations face in interpreting and responding to changes in their complex environments. Specifically, we seek a characterisation of the persistent kinds of problems they have to...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 01 December 2003
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Design of Customized Web Applications with OntoWeaver
ABSTRACT: Designing data-intensive web sites is a complex task. The ad-hoc rapid prototyping approaches easily lead to unsatisfactory results, e.g. poor maintainability and extensibility. OntoWeaver approaches this problem with special focuses on...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 24 November 2003
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A Generic Library of Problem Solving Methods for Scheduling Applications
In this paper we investigate the reuse of the tasks and reasoning methods by developing a generic library of problem-solving methods (PSMs) for the scheduling task. Although, some attempts have been made in the past at developing libraries of...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 24 November 2003
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Informal ontologies in the organization of research materials and authoring
Much of the history of Knowledge Representation and Ontological Engineering has been based on a premise of formalized ontologies, designed by (and often only used by) trained experts. Seldom have non-experts been granted entry. My Ph.D. is based...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 17 November 2003
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Group Behaviour and Ad hoc Interaction through Presence Based Play
In this seminar I will briefly discuss the notion of ?presence based play? as an experimentation framework for social experiences in the networked world. This research explores how spontaneous playful group behaviour and ad hoc collaboration can...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 10 November 2003
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Integrating Tools to Support Virtual Presence, Messaging, Meeting Replay, and Task Coordination
The CoAKTinG project (Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid: CoAKTing) started in June 2002 and runs for 24 months as a 'satellite' project to the 6 year Advanced...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 03 November 2003
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Logics, tasks and agents: towards a unified model for delivering knowledge services
This talk will consist of an informal review of work at Cancer Research UK aimed at developing general methods and technologies for building knowledge based services for web deployment. The main outcome of this work to date is PROforma, a...
Organisation: Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford and Department of Oncology, UCL and Royal Free Hospital
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 07 October 2003
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Brahms: A work practice modeling, simulation and multi-agent development environment for human-centered work systems
In recent years, interest in collaborative agents has increased due to the fact that most applications also require collaboration with other systems and their users. Although we have started from a different need, namely understanding the way people...
Organisation: Human-Centered Computing, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, USA
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Friday 26 September 2003
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Corporate Telepresence
KMi will be hosting as session for the Corous Network today. As part of the afternoon discussions Peter Scott will be chatting vaguely (as he so often does) around the houses of Corporate Telepresence. Dont expect him to keep to the...
Organisation: CNM, KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 03 July 2003
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BuddySpace: Instant Messaging, Maps, and Enhanced Presence For Knowledge Workers
The synchronous (real-time) presence of peer-group members can enhance the emotional well-being of tele-workers and improve problem solving performance and situated learning. To promote the deployment of next-generation presence-awareness tools in...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Tuesday 24 June 2003
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Networking a Sustainable Future
Dr. Gary Alexander is the author of "eGaia, Growing a peaceful, sustainable Earth through communications" (Lighthouse Books, 2002, and see http://www.ghpbooks.com), a book which offers a vision...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Monday 02 June 2003
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Practising Knowledge Art
Creating and producing situated knowledge artifacts -- for example, creating a model of a problem unique to a single group or organization -- involves a range of roles and skills. A role of special interest is that of the practitioner: the person...
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Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Thursday 22 May 2003
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The Internet Reasoning Service
The web is not only transforming work-practices, consumer behaviour, and the way we access information, but it is also changing the way systems are built.? Slowly, we are moving from the world of closed, standalone, centralised applications, to one...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University, UK
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 09 April 2003
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Back-end Stadium Systems
The KMi Stadium project has supported a vast range of educational webcasting experiments within the Open University and external clients. The presentation will discuss the logistical support systems which we call "Stadium XO Backlot" that are now...
Organisation: KMi, The Open University
Webcast time: 01:00
Webcast date: Wednesday 26 February 2003
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Maven of the Month
We are also inviting top experts in AI and Knowledge Technologies to discuss major socio-technological topics with an audience that comprises both members of the Knowledge Media Institute, as well as the wider staff at The Open University. Differently from our seminar series, these events follow a Q&A format.
