Open University SWAT Page

Introduction

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.

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

Allan Third (2012) "Hidden semantics": what can we learn from the names in an ontology? To appear in proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA.
Tu Anh T. Nguyen, Richard Power, Paul Piwek and Sandra Williams (2012) Planning Accessible Explanations for Entailments in OWL Ontologies. To appear in proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2012), 30 May - 1 June 2012, Starved Rock, IL, USA.
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 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

Last modified: April 2012, S.H.Williams