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This is a list of the publications of Victoria Uren. I try to keep it up to date, but my most recent papers may be missing. Here is a link to my page on DBLP, which contains links to electronic versions.
A.Dadzie, V.Uren, Z.Zhang, P.Webster, An Integrated Environment for Semantic Knowledge Work, Demonstration to be presented at CIKM 2011 Glasgow.
V.Uren, A.Dadzie, "Relative Trends in Scientific Terms on Twitter", In: altmetrics11: Tracking scholarly impact on the social Web, Workshop at: ACM Web Science Conference 2011. Slides.
V. Uren, F. Ciravegna, E Motta, C. Cadas, "Lessons learned Developing an Ontology about Aeroengines" University of Sheffield Technical Report CS-11-02
V. Lopez, V. Uren, R.M. Sabou, and E. Motta, (In Press) "Is question answering fit for the semantic web?: a survey," Accepted for publication in Semantic Web Journal.
M. Fernandez, Z. Zhang, V. Lopez, V. Uren, and E. Motta, "Ontology augmentation combining semantic web and text resources," Accepted at "Sixth International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2011"
GrassPortal: An online ecological and evolutionary data facility for the grasses Osborne CP, Visser V, Freckleton RP, Simpson D, Clayton D, Barker A, Chapman S, Salamin N, Uren V, GrassPortal Dev Team, S AFR J BOT 77(2) p.566 Apr 2011
M. Hartmann, M. Stander, and V. Uren, "Adapting workflows to Intelligent environments," Accepted at "Intelligent Environments 2011" Nottingham, 2011.
Dadzie, A.-S., Uren, V.S. & Ciravegna, F. (In Press) Ontology-Based Knowledge Capture & Sharing in Enterprise Organisations. In Wong, W., Liu, W, Bennamoun, M. (eds.), Ontology Learning and Knowledge Discovery Using the Web: Challenges and Recent Advances .
Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V. and Rüger, S. (2011) An Information Foraging Theory Based User Study of an Adaptive User Interaction Framework for Content-based Image Retrieval, Special Session: Interactive Image and Video Retrieval, The 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM2011), Taipei, Taiwan.
A.E. Cano, A.-S. Dadzie, V.S. Uren, and F. Ciravegna, "Sensing Presence (PreSense) Ontology - User Modelling in the Semantic SensorWeb," UWeb 2011 : International Workshop on User Profile Data on the Social Semantic Web, Workshop at ESWC2011, 2011.
Uren, V., Sabou, M., Motta, E., Fernandez, M., Lopez, V., and Lei, Y. (2010) Reflections on Five Years of Evaluating Semantic Search Systems, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), Special Issue on Semantic Search Evaluation. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, v.5 (2), May 2010 , pp. 87-98.
Liu, H., Mulholland, P., Song, D., Uren, V., Rüger, S. (2010) Applying Information Foraging Theory to Understand User Interaction with Content-based Image Retrieval. In: Information Interaction in Context (IIiX 2010).
Zhang, Z., Uren, V., Cirvegna, F. (2010) A comprehensive solution to procedural knowledge acquisition using information extraction. In: KDIR 2010.
Lopez, V., Nikolov, A., Sabou, M., Uren, V., Motta, E., D'Aquin, M. (2010) Scaling up Question Answering to Linked Data, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW-2010), Lisboa, Portugal.
Hartmann, M., Uren, V., Vildjiounaite, E. (2010) Gathering knowledge for supporting interaction with smart products. In: International Workshop on Digital Object Memories in the Internet of Things (DOME-IoT 2010) at UbiComp'10.
Webster, P., Uren, V., Ständer, M. (2010) Shaken not stirred: mixing semantics into XPDL. Presented at 5th International Workshop on Semantic Business Process Management co-located with ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Greece.
Lopez, V., Nikolov, A., Fernandez, M., Sabou, M., Uren, V., and Motta, E. (2009) Merging and Ranking Answers in the Semantic Web: The Wisdom of Crowds, The 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference, Shanghai, China. WINNER OF THE BEST PAPER AWARD at ASWC 2009.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., and Roeck, A. Overcoming Schema Heterogeneity between Linked Semantic Repositories to Improve Coreference Resolution, 4th Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2009), Shanghai, China.
Liu, H., Uren, V., Song, D., and Rüger, S. A Four-factor User Interaction Model for Content-Based Image Retrieval, The 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR 2009), pp. 297-304.
Nikolov, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., and Roeck, A. Towards data fusion in a multi-ontology environment Workshop: Linked Data on the Web at 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), Madrid, Spain.
M. Fernandez, V.Lopez, M.Sabou, V.Uren, D.Vallet, E.Motta, P.Castells. Using TREC for cross-comparison between classic IR and ontology-based search models at a Web scale . Workshop on Semantic Search at the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009). Madrid, Spain, April 2009.
Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta and Anne de Roeck. Overcoming schema heterogeneity for data-level integration Poster at ESWC 2009 6th European Semantic Web Conference, Heraklion, Greece 31 May- 4 June 2009.
Fawad Nazir, Victoria Uren, Andriy Nikolov: Algorithms for Generating Ontology Based Visualization from Semantic Search Results, To be presented at 1st International Workshop on Modelling and Visualization of XML and Semantic Web Data (MoViX'09) August 31, 2009.
Ullmann, T., Uren, V., and Nikolov, A. The SemSearchXplorer - Exploring Semantic Search Results with Semantic Visualizations, Workshop: AST 2009 - Applications of Semantic Technologies at the Informatik 2009, Luebeck, Germany., Informatik 2009 - Im Focus das Leben. GI Edition Lecture Notes in Informatics, eds. Gesellschaft fur Informatik e.V.; Fischer, Stefan; Maehle, Erik; Reischuk, Rudiger, Kollen Verlag.
Haiming Liu, Srdan Zagorac, Victoria Uren, Dawei Song, Stefan Rüger. Enabling Effective User Interactions in Content-based Image Retrieval. In: Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009), Hokkaido, Japan, Oct21-23 2009.
Lopez, V., Sabou, M., Uren, V., and Motta, E. Cross-Ontology Question Answering on the Semantic Web -an initial evaluation, Knowledge Capture Conference, 2009, California, DOI http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1597735.1597739.
Yuangui Lei, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, SemSearch: a ranking driven approach to semantic search, Poster at ASWC 2008, Bangkok Thailand WINNER OF THE BEST POSTER PRIZE at ASWC 2008.
A. Nikolov, V. Uren, E. Motta, A. de Roeck (2008). Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies. In: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I, Eds: Paulo C.G. da Costa, Claudia d'Amato, Nicola Fanizzi, Kathryn B. Laskey, Ken Laskey, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Matthias Nickles, Mike Pool (extended version of the workshop paper).
A. Nikolov, V. Uren, E. Motta, A. de Roeck (2008). Refining instance coreferencing results using belief propagation. ASWC 2008, Bangkok, Thailand.
A. Nikolov, V. Uren, E. Motta, A. de Roeck (2008). Integration of semantically annotated data by the KnoFuss architecture. EKAW 2008, Acitrezza, Italy.
A.Nikolov, V.Uren, E.Motta, A.de Roeck, Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture IRSW 2008 - ESWC 2008 Workshop Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web.
Miriam Fernandez, Vanessa Lopez, David Vallet, Enrico Motta, Marta Sabou, Victoria Uren, Pablo Castells, Semantic Search meets the Web. ICSC 2008.
Uren, V., Lei, Y., Motta, E., SemSearch: refining semantic search. ESWC Demonstration Session.
Liu, H., Song, D. Rüger S, Hu, R., Uren, V., Comparing Dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. 2008 Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS'2008).
Uren, V., Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Liu, H., Motta, E. and Giordanino, M. The usability of semantic search tools: a review, Knowledge Engineering Review, (2007), 22:361-377 Cambridge University Press.
Lei, Y., Lopez, V., Motta, E., Uren, V. An infrastructure for building semantic web portals. Journal of Web Engineering, vol.6 (4), 283-308, (2007).
Yuangui Lei, Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, and Enrico Motta, Detecting Quality Problems in Semantic Metadata without the Presence of a Gold Standard, presented at 5th International EON Workshop on Evaluation of Ontologies and Ontology-based tools, (EON2007) held at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 12 Nov.2007. Busan, Korea.
Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta and Anne de Roeck, Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies, presented at the Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web Workshop (URSW), held at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 12 Nov.2007. Busan, Korea.
Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren and Enrico Motta, KnoFuss: A Comprehensive Architecture for Knowledge Fusion, Poster at KCAP 2007, The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture Whistler, Canada, 28-31 Oct. 2007.
J. Iria, V. Uren, A. Lavelli, S. Blohm, A. Dadzie, T. Franz, J. Magalhaes, S. Nikolopoulos, I. Kompatsiaris, C. Preisach, P. Slavazza. Enhancing Enterprise Knowledge Processes via Cross-Media Extraction. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP 2007), Whistler, Canada, 28-31 Oct. 2007.
Simon Buckingham Shum, Victoria Uren, Gary Li, Bertrand Sereno, Clara Mancini (2007), Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures: Representation and Interaction Design Issues, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Special issue on Computational Models of Natural Argument, 22, 1, pp. 17-47).
Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rüger, S. (2007) Entity Association Discovery in Organizational Information Space, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, Hong Kong, China, IEEE.
Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2007) SemEval: A Framework for Evaluating Semantic Metadata, KCAP 2007, The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture Whistler, Canada, 28-31 Oct. 2007.
Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2007) SemRef: An Evaluation Refererence Model for Semantic Metadata, Poster at 4th European Semantic Web Conference.
Zhu, J., Eisenstadt, M., Gonçalves, A., Denham, C., Uren, V. and Song, D. (2007) Social Search With Missing Data: Which Ranking Algorithm?, Journal of Digital Information Management special issue on Web Information Retrieval, eds. Pit.Pichappan, Keith van Rijsbergen, and Iadh Ounis, Digital Information Research Foundation
Lopez, V., Uren, V., Motta, E. and Pasin, M. (2007) AquaLog: An ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets, Journal of Web Semantics, 5, 2, pp. 72-105, Elsevier.
Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Gonçalves, Victoria S. Uren, Enrico Motta, Roberto Pacheco, Marc Eisenstadt, Dawei Song (2007) Relation Discovery from Web Data for Competency Management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, Vol. 5, No. 4, IOS Press, ISSN 1570-1263.
Nikolaos Nanas, Anne de Roeck and Victoria Uren (2006), Immune-Inspired Adaptive Information Filtering , Artificial Immune Systems, LNCS 4163/2006, pp. 418-431.
N. Nanas, A.N. De Roeck, and V.S. Uren, "Immune-Inspired Adaptive Information Filtering," Artificial Immune Systems, 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006, H. Bersini and J. Carneiro, eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 418-431
Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta (2006), Semantic Search Components: a blueprint for effective query language interfaces, EKAW 2006 Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, pp. 222-237..
Yuangui Lei, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta (2006), SemSearch: a search engine for the semantic web, EKAW 2006 Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks, pp. 238-245.
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria S. Uren: PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web. presented at 3rd European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2006 pp. 393-410.
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Michelle Bachler, Gangmin Li, Sensemaking Tools for Understanding Research Literatures: Design, Implementation and User Evaluation , International Journal of Human Computer Studies, (2006), 64, 5, pp. 420-445.
Uren, Victoria; Cimiano, Philipp; Iria, José; Handschuh, Siegfried; Vargas-Vera, Maria; Motta, Enrico; Ciravegna, Fabio, Semantic Annotation for Knowledge Management: Requirements and a Survey of the State of the Art, Journal of Web Semantics, 2006, vol. 4, no. 1., pp.14-28.
Andriy Nikolov, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Anne De Roeck, Measuring similarity for fusing extracted knowledge, presented at the 9th Annual CLUK Research Colloquium , 8-9 March 2006, Milton Keynes, UK.
Alexandre Goncalves, Jianhan Zhu, Dawei Song, Victoria Uren, Roberto Pacheco , LRD: Latent Relation Discovery for Vector Space Expansion and Information Retrieval, Advances in Web-Age Information Management: 7th International Conference, WAIM 2006, June 17-19, 2006. Proceedings, Hong Kong, China, pp. 122 - 133, Springer Verlag.
Yuangui Lei, Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta (2006), An Infrastructure for Acquiring High Quality Semantic Metadata, the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro.
Marta Sabou, Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren (2006), Ontology Selection: Ontology Evaluation on the Real Semantic Web, Workshop: Evaluation of Ontologies for the Web (EON 2006) at 15th International World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh.
Vanessa Lopez, Enrico Motta, Victoria Uren (2006), AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web, HLT-NAACL 2006 - Demo session, New York.
J. Zhu, A.L. Gonçalves, V. Uren, E. Motta, R. Pacheco, CORDER: COmmunity Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition, Poster at Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'2005) , Banff, Canada.
Dileep Damle, Victoria Uren, Extracting Significant Words from Corpora for Ontology Extraction, Poster at Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP'2005) , Banff, Canada.
Dileep G. Damle , V.S. Uren, A. DeRoeck, J.B. Domingue, Identifying Important Words For Semi-automatically Building Ontologies From Natural Language Text, 2nd Indian International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IICAI-05), Pune, India, Dec. 2005.
J. Zhu, A.L. Gonçalves, V. Uren, E. Motta, R. Pacheco, Mining Web Data for Competency Management. In: Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2005 (WI'2005) IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2005, Compiegne University of Technology, France.
Uren, V., Motta, E. Dzbor, M., Cimiano P. Browsing for Information by Highlighting Automatically Generated Annotations: A User Study and Evaluation. KCAP 2005 , Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture. October 2-5, 2005. Banff, Canada.
Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, and Enrico Motta. ESpotter: Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing. In Professional Knowledge Management: Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers Editors: Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Dengel, Ralph Bergmann, Markus Nick, Thomas Roth-Berghofer. (Proc. of Workshop on IT Tools for Knowledge Management Systems at WM2005 Conference, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 11-13, 2005).
Alexandre Gonçalves, Victoria Uren, VinÃcius Kern, Roberto C. S. Pacheco: Mining Knowledge from Textual Databases: An Approach using Ontology-based Context Vectors. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2005), Innsbruck, Austria.
Victoria Uren, Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre Goncalves Applying Mined Social Networks to Knowledge Management Scenarios. AIS SIGSEMIS Bulletin, 2005.
Jianhan Zhu, Alexandre L. Goncalves, Victoria Uren (2004) Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Social Network Analysis and Domain Ontology Maintenance, KMi Technical Report kmi-04-30.
Uren, V., Motta, E., (2004) Lexicon Generation by Extraction of Context Patterns , Workshop on the Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes at EKAW 2004, 5-8th October 2004 - Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK .
Dzbor M., Motta E., Uren V., Lei Y., Domingue J. (2004) Reflection on the future of knowledge portals, SIGSEMIS Bulletin, 1(2).
N.Nanas, V.Uren, A. de Roeck, J.Domingue, Nootropia: A User Profiling Model Based on a Self-Organising Term Network, (2004) In: 3rd International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems (ICARIS),13 - 16 September, 2004 Catania, Italy.
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Clara Mancini and Gangmin Li , (2004) "Modelling Naturalistic Argumentation in Research Literatures", 4th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument at ECAI 23-24 Aug. 2004, Valencia.
Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, ESpotter: A Prototype System for Adaptive Named Entity Recognition Supporting Web Browsing, Demonstration at Fifteenth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext'04), Santa Cruz, USA, 9-13 August 2004.
Bertrand Sereno, Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, and Enrico Motta, Semantic Annotation Support in the Absence of Consensus, In proceedings: ESWS 2004 : European semantic web symposium, Heraklion, Greece 2004, LNCS vol. 3053, pp. 357-371.
N.Nanas, V.Uren, A.de Roeck, J.Domingue. Multi-Topic Information Filtering with a Single User Profile, 3rd Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, SETN 2004, Samos, 5-8 May 2004.
Nikolaos Nanas: Towards Nootropia: a non-linear approach to adaptive document filtering. SIGIR Forum 38(1): 78 (2004).
Jianhan Zhu, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Adaptive Named Entity Recognition for Web Browsing, KMi kmi-04-12 , (previously KMI-TR-146) May 2004.
Victoria Uren, Bertrand Sereno, Simon Buckingham Shum & Gangmin Li. Interfaces for Capturing Interpretations of Research Literature, In: Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture (DC-KCAP) Workshop, October 2003, Held in conjunction with K-CAP 2003.
N.Nanas, V.Uren, A. de Roeck. Building and Applying a Concept Hierarchy Representation of a User Profile. In Proceedings SIGIR 2003, Toronto Canada 28 July - 1 Aug. 2003, ACM Press.
Victoria Uren, Simon Buckingham Shum, Gangmin Li, John Domingue, Enrico Motta. Scholarly Publishing and Argument in Hyperspace. In Proceedings WWW2003, Budapest, Hungary, 20-24 May 2003, ACM Press 2003.
Simon Buckingham Shum, Victoria Uren, Gangmin Li, John Domingue, Enrico Motta. Visualizing Internetworked Argumentation. In: Visualizing Argumentation - Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense-making, P.A.Kirschner, S.Buckingham Shum, C.S.Carr (Eds), Springer Verlag 2003.
Colwell, Chetz and Di Paolo, Terry and Scanlon, Eileen and Cooper, Martyn and Uren, Victoria and Jelfs, Anne (2003) Redesigning practical work: web-based remote experimentation. In: Scanlon, Eileen and Holliman, Richard, (eds). Mediating science learning through information and communications technology. Routledge, London, pp. 169-187. ISBN 0-415-32832-2 & 978-0-415-32832-6.
Stix, V. and V. Uren (2003). _Semantic Structuring of Concepts found in Scholarly Literature: An Empirical Study using a Fuzzy Clustering Approach_. 7th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI2003), Orlando, Florida, 27 - 30 July 2003, pp.144 - 148.
Gangmin Li, Victoria Uren, Enrico Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum, John Domingue. ClaiMaker: Weaving a Semantic Web of Research Papers. In proceedings: International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia Italy 10-12 June 2002.
Simon Buckingham Shum, Victoria Uren, Gangmin Li, John Domingue, Enrico Motta, Clara Mancini. Designing Representational Coherence into an Infrastructure for Collective Sensemaking. Invited Discussion Paper 2nd International Workshop on Infrastructures for Distributed Collective Practices San Diego, 6-9 Feb. 2002.
Victoria S. Uren, Thomas A. Addis. How weak text categorizers based upon different principles can strengthen performance. The Computer Journal, 2002, 45, pp.511-524.
Victoria Uren. Thesis, Combining text categorizers, University of Portsmouth, 2001.
Victoria Uren. An evaluation of text categorisation errors. In: Proceedings of the One-day Workshop on Evaluation of Information Management Systems, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK, 15 September 2000. pp.79-87.
Victoria Uren. Two decades of change and development - the Weldasearch database. TWI Bulletin, v.34, n. 4, pp.76-79. July/August 1993.
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