Funded by the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC grant no. G033579/1), 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.
Richard Power (2014) A Formal Dialogue Model for Ontology Authoring. In: Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary Convention of the AISB, 1st-4th April 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. [pdf]
Tu Anh T. Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2013). Predicting the understandability of OWL inferences. In: Extended Semantic Web Conference 2013 (ESWC 2013) - Research Track, 26th May to 30th May, 2013, Montpellier, France. Nominated for best paper award. [pdf] [Links]
Sandra Williams (2013) An Information Extraction System for English Ontology Identifier Names. Technical Report TR2013/03, Department of Computing, The Open University. pdf (360KB)
Sandra Williams (2013) An Analysis of POS Tag Patterns in Ontology Identifiers and Labels. Technical Report TR2013/02, Department of Computing, The Open University. pdf (385KB)
Nguyen, Tu Ahn; Power, Richard; Piwek, Paul and Williams, Sandra (2012). Measuring the understandability of deduction rules for OWL. In: First International Workshop on Debugging Ontologies and Ontology Mappings (WoDOOM12), 8th October 2012, Galway, Ireland. pdf (313KB)
Richard Power (2012) OWL Simplified English: a finite-state language for ontology editing. In T. Kuhn and N.E. Fuchs (eds) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012, Zurich), pp 44-60. Springer, Heidelberg. [pdf] [slides]
Allan Third (2012) "Hidden semantics": what can we learn from the names in an ontology? Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA. [pdf]
Tu Anh T. Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2012) Planning Accessible Explanations for Entailments in OWL Ontologies. Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA. [pdf]
Tu Anh T. Nguyen (2011) Explaining Justifications in OWL DL Ontologies.Proceedings of the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2011), 29th May - 2nd June 2011, Heraklion, Greece. [pdf]
Sandra Williams (2011) Generating mathematical word problems.Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fall Symposium on Question Generation, 4-6 November 2011, Arlington, Virginia, USA. [pdf]
Allan Third, Sandra Williams and Richard Power (2011) OWL to English: a tool for generating organised easily-navigated hypertexts from ontologies.10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011), 23 - 27 Oct 2011, Bonn, Germany. [pdf]
Richard Power (2011)Deriving rhetorical relationships from semantic content. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, September 2011, Nancy, France. [pdf]
Sandra Williams, Allan Third and Richard Power (2011)Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation. Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, September 2011, Nancy, France. [pdf]
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 SandraWilliams (2011) Justification Patterns for OWL DLOntologies. 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]
Details of the corpus of ontologies used in Tu Ahn Nguyen's PhD are here.
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