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Introduction

This project aims to open up the semantic web to a wide audience through novel techniques that allow viewing and editing of semantic web representation languages in ordinary natural language, as opposed to the methods currently used, such as source coding or graphical interfaces, which require significant training.

OU Team

• Richard Power (Principal Investigator)
• Allan Third (Research Fellow)
• Sandra Williams (Research Fellow)
• Tu Anh Nguyen (PhD Student)

Project Partners

• Robert Stevens (Principal Investigator, Manchester University)
• Alan Rector (Co-Investigator, Manchester University
• Donia Scott (Co-Investigator, University of Sussex)
• Shao Fen (Fennie) Liang (Research Fellow, Manchester University)

Demos

• SWAT Natural Language Tools

Publications

• Richard Power (2011) Deriving rhetorical relationships from semantic content. To appear in Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, September 2011, Nancy, France.

• Sandra Williams, Allan Third and Richard Power (2011) Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation. To appear in Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, September 2011, Nancy, France.

• Robert Stevens, James Malone, Sandra Williams, Richard Power, Alan Third (2011) Automating generation of textual class definitions from OWL to English. Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2011 May 17, Vol. 2 Suppl 2:S5. [pdf]

• Richard Power (2011) Coherence relations in ontologies. Open University Computing Department Technical Report 2011/01. [pdf]

• Tu Anh T. Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2011) Justification Patterns for OWL DL Ontologies. Technical Report TR2011-05, Department of Computing, The Open University. ISSN 1744-1986. pdf (288KB)

• Richard Power and Allan Third (2010) Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing China. [pdf]

• Richard Power (2010) Complexity assumptions in ontology verbalisation. Proceedings of 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2010), Uppsala, Sweden. [pdf]

• Robert Stevens, James Malone, Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2010) Automating Class Definitions From OWL to English. Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies 2010: Semantic Applications in Life Sciences SIG at 18th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2010), Boston, USA. [pdf] [slides] [Links]

• Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2010) Grouping axioms for more coherent ontology descriptions. Proceedings of 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010), Dublin. [pdf]

• Power, R., Stevens, R., Scott, D. and Rector, A. (2009) Editing OWL through generated CNL. Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL'09) Marettimo Island, Italy. [slides] [pdf]

• Power, R. (2009) Towards a Generation-Based Semantic Web Authoring Tool. Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG'09), Athens. [pdf]

Advisory Board

World Health Organisation, Contact: Bedirhan Ustun

Siemens Medical Solutions Health Services Corp., Contact: Sam Brandt

NHS Connecting for Health, Contact: Ken Lunn

Ordnance Survey, Contact: Glen Hart

University of Manchester, MyGrid project, Contact: Carole Goble

Stanford Centre for Biomedical Informatics Research, Contact: Mark Musen

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Last modified: 10 May 2010, S.H.Williams