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My background is in chemistry and information science. I worked for eight years on the production of technical databases at The Welding Institute and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. In those roles, I came to realise the potential of well structured knowledge resources, but also the cost and difficulty of producing them manually. This lead me to undertake a PhD in text categorisation at Portsmouth University.
I am now a lecturer at Aston University and a member of the Operations and Information Management group in Aston Business School. The creation, search and utilisation of structured knowledge is still the key theme in my research.
Prior to this I was a researcher and worked on a range of knowledge management projects first at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University from 2001-2009, and then in the OAK Group in the Computer Science Department at the University of Sheffield.
I presented this lecture on research and the current state of the art in semantic search for NetIKX in November 2011. This summarises much of the research I undertook with colleages at the OU and Sheffield University. The slides are available here.
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