From the Highlights of SEMANTiCS 2024 to the Anticipated Innovations of SEMANTiCS 2025

Last year, SEMANTiCS, leading conference in Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs (KGs), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), marked its 20th anniversary and I was honoured to serve as Research and Innovation Track Chair. My esteemed co-chairs were Mehwish Alam, from Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (FR), and Femke Ongenae, from IDLab research group – Ghent University … Read more

ISWC under the Nature Navigator lens

The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) is a leading annual event that brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry leaders in semantic web technologies. The conference promotes collaboration and knowledge exchange, focusing on innovative approaches to data interoperability, knowledge representation, and intelligent information retrieval. Participants discuss the development and application of semantic web standards, tools, and … Read more

OpenAlex CEO showcases the AIDA Dashboard as premier use case

On 12th September, the LISBibliometrics conference, an established gathering for Bibliometrics and Scientometrics practitioners, was held at the University of Brighton. The theme “Exploring the Bibliometric Universe” focused on diverse topics including research culture measurement, indicators, AI methodologies, research integrity, and addressing societal issues using bibliometrics. I was invited to speak on the influence of … Read more

What’s to expect from SEMANTiCS 2024?

TL;DR (full post below) SEMANTiCS 2024 marking its 20th anniversary as a leading conference in Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs (KGs), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), promises to tackle critical AI challenges in AI along three key axes: i) Neuro-symbolic AI, ii) the integration of LLMs and KGs, and iii) decentralised Semantics. In particular, this vicennial edition … Read more

1st​ Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKG2020)

In the last decade, we experienced an urgent need for a flexible, context-sensitive, fine-grained, and machine-actionable representation of scholarly knowledge and corresponding infrastructures for knowledge curation, publishing and processing. Such technical infrastructures are becoming increasingly popular in representing scholarly knowledge as structured, interlinked, and semantically rich Scholarly Knowledge Graphs (SKG).
The 1st​ Workshop on Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKG2020) aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different fields (including, but not limited to, Digital Libraries, Information Extraction, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Knowledge Engineering, Natural Language Processing, Scholarly Communication, and Bibliometrics) in order to explore innovative solutions and ideas for the production and consumption of Scientific Knowledge Graphs (SKGs).

Defended my Thesis

On 31st May 2019, I defended my thesis on the “Early Detection of Research Trends”.

The exam panel consisted of Dr Pallavi Anand from the Open University as chair, and two external examiners Prof Kalina Bontcheva from the University of Sheffield, and Prof Alun Preece from Cardiff University.

New release: CSO Classifier v2.1

We are pleased to announce that we recently created a new release of the CSO Classifier (v2.1), an application for automatically classifying research papers according to the Computer Science Ontology (CSO). Recently, we have been intensively working on improving its scalability, removing all its bottlenecks and making sure it could be run on large corpus. … Read more

The World Wide Web turns 30

I have always been passionate about technology. When I bought my first computer (special thanks to my father for funding it), and got it connected to the internet, it soon became part of my life: downloading movies, music, studying, chatting, engaging with different communities, writing a blog, buying and selling stuff. The web gave me … Read more

The Open University and Springer Nature launch the Computer Science Ontology

Springer Nature and the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of The Open University are partnering to provide a comprehensive Computer Science Ontology (CSO) to a broad range of communities engaged with scholarly data. CSO can be accessed free of charge through the CSO Portal, a web application that enables users to download, explore, and provide feedback on the ontology.