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The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded the AKT project as one of their Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations (IRC). AKT brought together a strong consortium of universities and complementary disciplines to address fundamental problems in knowledge management. It was a multi-million pound, six-year collaboration between renowned research groups at the Universities of Southampton, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Sheffield, and the Open University. Professor Nigel Shadbolt served as the Director of the AKT project, which aimed to develop and extend technologies for the capture, modelling, publishing, reuse, and management of knowledge. The IRC conducted fundamental research in knowledge technologies and produced practical results, attracting significant industrial support.

The project tackled the challenge of managing the vast amount of data, information, and knowledge in modern society. It focused on how to efficiently and effectively transform knowledge from its creation to its use. This process involved acquiring, modelling, representing, storing, retrieving, using, reusing, publishing, and maintaining knowledge. The AKT project aimed to address these issues through an integrated approach and focused its research agenda on overcoming six key challenges in knowledge management.

Publications


Pasin, M. and Motta, E. (2011) Ontological requirements for annotation and navigation of philosophical resources, Synthese, 182, 2, pp. 235-267, Springer Netherlands.

Heath, T. and Motta, E. (2008) Revyu: Linking reviews and ratings into the Web of Data, Journal of Web Semantics, 6, 4, pp. 266-273, Elsevier.

Zhu, J., (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.

Dzbor, M., Motta, E. and Domingue, J. (2007) Magpie: Experiences in supporting Semantic Web browsing, Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 5, 3, pp. 204-222, Elsevier B.V.

Zhu, J., Goncalves, A., Uren, V., Motta, E., Pacheco, R., Song, D. and Rueger, S. (2007) Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities, International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics 2007, Hong Kong, China, IEEE.

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.

Zhu, J., Song, D., Rueger, S., Eisenstadt, M. and Motta, E. (2006) The Open University at TREC 2006 Enterprise Track Expert Search Task, The Fifteenth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2006), Gaithersburg, Maryland USA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA.

Nagy, M., Vargas-Vera, M. and Motta, E. (2006) DSSim-ontology Mapping with Uncertainty, International Worshop on Ontology Matching OM-2006, collocated with the 5th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2006.

Lopez, V., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2006) PowerMap: Mapping the Real Semantic Web on the Fly, International Semantic Web Conference., Georgia, Atlanta.

Lei, Y., Uren, V. and Motta, E. (2006) SemSearch: A Search Engine for the Semantic Web, 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (EKAW 2006), Podebrady, Czech Republic.

Sabou, M., Lopez, V. and Motta, E. (2006) Ontology Selection on the Real Semantic Web: How to Cover the Queen’s Birthday Dinner?, EKAW 2006 – 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Podebrady, Czech Republic.

Motta, E. and Sabou, M. (2006) Next Generation Semantic Web Applications, 1st Asian Semantic Web Conference, Beijing.

Lopez, V., Motta, E. and Pasin, M. (2005) AquaLog: an ontology-portable question answering system for the semantic web, European Semantic Web Conference 2005, Heraklion, Crete.

Tanasescu, V., Domingue, J. and Cabral, L. (2004) OCML Ontologies to XML Schema Lowering, Workshop: First AKT Workshop on Semantic Web Services (AKT-SWS04), KMi, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Lopez, V. and Motta, E. (2004) Ontology Driven question answering in AquaLog, 9th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2004), Manchester, UK.

Motta, E., Domingue, J., Cabral, L. and Gaspari, M. (2003) IRS II: A Framework and Infrastructure for Semantic Web Services, 2nd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2003), Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA