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Dadzie, Aba-Sah; Uren, Victoria; Miller, Tim and Abba-Dabo, Al-Amin (2018). Value-driven partner search for Energy from Waste projects. In: Procedia Computer Science vol.137, pp. 21–32.

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Uren, Victoria; Wright, Daniel; Scott, James; He, Yulan and Saif, Hassan (2016). Social media and sentiment in bioenergy consultation. International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 10(1) pp. 87–98.

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Lopez, Vanessa; Uren, Victoria; Sabou, Marta and Motta, Enrico (2011). Is question answering fit for the Semantic Web? A survey. Semantic Web, 2(2) pp. 125–155.

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Liu, Haiming; Mulholland, Paul; Song, Dawei; Uren, Victoria and Rüger, Stefan (2011). An information foraging theory based user study of an adaptive user interaction framework for content-based image retrieval. In: 17th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM), Jan 2011, Taipei, Taiwan, Springer LNCS 6524, pp. 241–251.

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Fernandez, Miriam; Zhang, Ziqui; Lopez, Vanessa; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2011). Ontology augmentation: combining semantic web and text resources. In: 6th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2011), 25-29 Jun 2011, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

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Lopez, Vanessa; Nikolov, Andriy; Sabou, Marta; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2010). Scaling up question-answering to linked data. In: EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses, 11-15 Oct 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Liu, Haiming; Mulholland, Paul; Song, Dawei; Uren, Victoria and Rüger, Stefan (2010). Applying information foraging theory to understand user interaction with content-based image retrieval. In: The Information Interaction in Context Conference (IIiX 2010), 18-22 Aug 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2010). Data linking: capturing and utilising implicit schema-level relations. In: Linked Data on the Web (LDOW 2010) at 19th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), 27 Apr 2010, Raleigh, USA.

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Fernandez, Miriam; Lopez, Vanessa; Sabou, Marta; Uren, Victoria; Vallet, David; Motta, Enrico and Castells, Pablo (2009). Using TREC for cross-comparison between classic IR and ontology-based search models at a Web scale. In: Semantic Search 2009 Workshop at the 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20 Apr 2009, Madrid, Spain.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Overcoming schema heterogeneity between linked semantic repositories to improve coreference resolution. In: The Semantic Web, Springer.

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Lopez, Vanessa; Nikolov, Andriy; Fernandez, Miriam; Sabou, Marta; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2009). Merging and ranking answers in the Semantic Web: the wisdom of crowds. In: The Semantic Web.

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Lopez, Vanessa; Sabou, Marta; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2009). Cross-ontology question answering on the Semantic Web – an initial evaluation. In: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture, ACM, pp. 17–24.

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Liu, Haiming; Uren, Victoria; Song, Dawei and Rüger, Stefan (2009). A four-factor user interaction model for content-based image retrieval. In: The 2nd International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval (ICTIR2009), 10-12 Sep 2009, Cambridge, UK.

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Liu, Haiming; Zagorac, Serge; Uren, Victoria; Song, Dawei and Rüger, Stefan (2009). Enabling effective user interactions in content-based image retrieval. In: The 5th Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2009), 21-23 Oct 2009, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2009). Towards data fusion in a multi-ontology environment. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009), 20-24 Apr 2009, Madrid, Spain.

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Ullmann, Thomas Daniel; Uren, Victoria and Nikolov, Andriy (2009). The SemSearchXplorer - exploring semantic search results with semantic visualizations. In: AST 2009 Applications of Semantic Technologies, located at the Informatik 2009, 2 Oct 2009, Lübeck, Germany.

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Fernandez, Miriam; Lopez, Vanessa; Motta, Enrico; Sabou, Marta; Uren, Victoria; Vallet, David and Castells, Pablo (2008). Semantic search meets the Web. In: Semantic Computing, 2008 IEEE International Conference on, pp. 253–260.

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Liu, Haiming; Song, Dawei; Rüger, Stefan; Hu, Rui and Uren, Victoria (2008). Comparing dissimilarity measures for content-based image retrieval. In: Information Retrieval Technology.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Using the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence to resolve ABox inconsistencies. In: Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web I. URSW 2006, URSW 2007, URSW 2005 (da Costa, P. C. G.; d’Amato, Claudia; Fanizzi, Nicola; Laskey, Kathryn B.; Laskey, Kenneth J.; Lukasiewicz, Thomas; Nickles, Matthias and Michael, Pool eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, UK, pp. 143–160.

Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Refining instance coreferencing results using belief propagation. In: The Semantic Web: proceedings the of 3rd Asian SemanticWeb Conference, ASWC 2008, Springer, pp. 405–419.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Handling instance coreferencing in the KnoFuss architecture. In: 1st international workshop on Identity and Reference on the Semantic Web (IRSW2008) - at ESWC-08, 1 Jun 2008, Tenerife, Spain.

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Nikolov, Andriy; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and De Roeck, Anne (2008). Integration of semantically annotated data by the KnoFuss architecture. In: Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns (Gangemi, Aldo and Euzenat, Jérôme eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 265–274.

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Zhu, Jianhan; Goncalves, Alexandre L.; Uren, Victoria S.; Motta, Enrico; Pacheco, Roberto; Eisenstadt, Marc and Song, Dawei (2007). Relation Discovery from web data for competency management. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems, 5(4) pp. 405–417.

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Zhu, Jianhan; Eisenstadt, Marc; Goncalves, Alexandre; Denham, Chris; Uren, Victoria and Song, Dawei (2007). Social Search with Missing Data: Which Ranking Algorithm? Journal of Digital Information Management: Special Issue on Web Retrieval, 5(5) pp. 249–261.

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Zhu, Jian-Han; Goncalves, Alexandre L.; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico; Pacheco, Roberto; Song, Dawei and Rüger, Stefan (2007). Community Relation Discovery by Named Entities. In: 2007 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, p. 1966.

Lopez, Vanessa; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and Pasin, Michele (2007). AquaLog: an ontology-driven question answering system for organizational semantic intranets. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 5(2) pp. 72–105.

Buckingham Shum, Simon J.; Uren, Victoria; Li, Gangmin; Sereno, Bertrand and Mancini, Clara (2007). Modelling naturalistic argumentation in research literatures: representation and interaction design issues. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 22(1) pp. 17–47.

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Uren, Victoria; Lei, Yuangui; Lopez, Vanessa; Liu, Haiming; Motta, Enrico and Giordanino, Marina (2007). The usability of semantic search tools: a review. The Knowledge Engineering Review, 22(4) pp. 361–377.

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Lopez, Vanessa; Fernandez, Miriam; Motta, Enrico; Sabou, Marta and Uren, Victoria (2007). Question Answering on the Real Semantic Web. In: The 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), 11-15 Nov 2007, Busan, Korea.

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Nanas, Nikolaos; De Roeck, Anne and Uren, Victoria (2006). Immune-inspired adaptive information filtering. In: Artificial immune systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin/Heidelburg, Germany, pp. 418–431.

Lei, Yuangui; Sabou, Marta; Lopez, Vanessa; Zhu, Jianhan; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2006). An Infrastructure for acquiring high quality semantic metadata. In: 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), 11-14 Jun 2006, Budva, Montenegro.

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Uren, Victoria; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Bachler, Michelle and Li, Gangmin (2006). Sensemaking tools for understanding research literatures: design, implementation and user evaluation. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 64(5) pp. 420–445.

Uren, Victoria; Cimiano, Philipp; Iria, Jose; Hanndschuh, Siegfried; Vargas-Vera, Maria; Motta, Enrico and Ciravegna, Fabio (2006). Semantic annotation for knowledge management: requirements and a survey of the state of the art. Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 4(1) pp. 14–28.

Gonçalves, Alexandre; Zhu, Jianhan; Song, Dawei; Uren, Victoria and Pacheco, Roberto (2006). LRD: latent relation discovery for vector space expansion and information retrieval. In: ed. Advances in Web-Age Information Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 401. Berlin: Springer, pp. 122–133.

Lei, Yuangui; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2006). SemSearch: A search engine for the semantic web. In: Staab, S. and Svatek, V. eds. Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks. Berlin: Springer, pp. 238–245.

Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2006). Semantic search components: A blueprint for effective query language interfaces. In: Managing Knowledge in a World of Networks (Staab, S. and Svatek, V. eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 222–237.

Sabou, Marta; Lopez, Vanessa; Motta, Enrico and Uren, Victoria (2006). Ontology selection: ontology evaluation on the real Semantic Web. In: 15th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2006), 23-26 May 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Lopez, Vanessa; Motta, Enrico and Uren, Victoria (2006). AquaLog: an ontology-driven question answering system to interface the semantic web. In: HLT-NAACL 2006 - Demo session, 12 May 2006, New York, USA.

Zhu, J.; Goncalves, A.L.; Uren, V.S.; Motta, E. and Pacheco, R. (2005). Mining web data for competency management. In: Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence 2005 (WI'2005) (Zhong, Andrzej Skowron, Rakesh Agrawal, Michael Luck, Takahira Yamaguch ed.), IEEE Computer Society, Compiegne University of Technology, France, pp. 94–100.

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Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico; Dzbor, Martin and Cimiano, Philipp (2005). Browsing for information by highlighting automatically generated annotations: a user study and evaluation. In: ed. Not Set Not Set, pp. 75–82.

Zhu, Jianhan; Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2005). ESpotter: adaptive named entity recognition for web browsing. In: Professional Knowledge Management, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 518–529.

Zhu, Jianhan; Gonçalves, Alexandre; Uren, Victoria; Motta, Enrico and Pacheco, Roberto (2005). CORDER: Community Relation Discovery by named Entity Recognition. In: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Knowledge capture - K-CAP '05 (Association for Computing Machinery, ACM ed.), ACM, New York, NY U.S., pp. 219–220.

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Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria and De Roeck, Anne (2004). A Comparative Evaluation of Term Weighting Methods for Information Filtering. In: Galindo, Fernando; Takizawa, Makoto and Traunmüller, Roland eds. Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 13–17.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria and De Roeck, Anne (2004). Nootropia: a user profiling model based on a self-organising term network. In: Artificial Immune Systems: Third International conference. ICARIS 2004, 13-16 Sep 2004, Catania, Italy.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria; De Roeck, Anne and Domingue, John (2004). Multi-topic information filtering with a single user profile. In: Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Vouros, George A. and Panayiotopoulos, Themistoklis eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, pp. 400–409.

Sereno, Bertrand; Uren, Victoria; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Motta, Enrico (2004). Semantic annotation support in the absence of consensus. In: Bussler, Christoph; Davies, John; Fensel, Dieter and Studer, Rudi eds. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3053 (2004). Berlin: Springer, pp. 357–371.

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Dzbor, Martin; Motta, Enrico; Uren, Victoria; Lei, Yuangui and Domingue, John (2004). Reflection on the future of knowledge portals. SIGSEMIS Bulletin, 1(2) pp. 32–36.

Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria; De Roeck, Anne and Domingue, John (2004). Beyond TREC's filtering track. In: In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC04), Springer, pp. 1651–1654.

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Uren, Victoria and Motta, Enrico (2004). Lexicon generation by extraction of context patterns. In: Workshop on Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to support Knowledge Management Processes at The 14th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2004), 05-08 Oct 2004, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK.

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Uren, Victoria; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Mancini, Clara and Li, Gangmin (2004). Modelling of naturalistic argumentation in research literatures. In: 4th Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument at The 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2004), 22-27 Aug 2004, Valencia, Spain.

Colwell, Chetz; Di Paolo, Terry; Scanlon, Eileen; Cooper, Martyn; Uren, Victoria and Jelfs, Anne (2003). Redesigning practical work: web-based remote experimentation. In: Scanlon, Eileen and Holliman, Richard eds. Mediating science learning through information and communications technology. London: Routledge, pp. 169–187.

Uren, Victoria; Buckingham Shum, Simon; Li, Gangmin; Domingue, John and Motta, Enrico (2003). Scholarly publishing and argument in hyperspace. In: ed. Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web. ACM Press, pp. 244–250.

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Nanas, Nikolaos; Uren, Victoria; De Roeck, Anne and Domingue, John (2003). Building and applying a Concept Hierarchy Representation of a user profile. In: 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval., 28 Jul - 1 Aug 2003, Toronto, Canada.

Buckingham Shum, Simon; Uren, Victoria; Li, Gangmi; Domingue, John and Motta, Enrico (2003). Visualizing internetworked argumentation. In: Kirschner, Paul A.; Buckingham Shum, Simon J. and Carr, Chad S. eds. Visualizing Argumentation: Software Tools for Collaborative and Educational Sense-Making. Computer supported cooperative work. London: Springer-Verlag, pp. 185–204.

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Uren, Victoria; Sereno, Bertrand; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Li, Gangman (2003). Interfaces for capturing interpretations of research literature. In: Distributed and Collective Knowledge Capture (DC-KCAP) Workshop at 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2003), 23-25 Oct 2003, Sanibel island, FL, USA.

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Li, G.; Uren, V; Motta, E.; Buckingham Shum, S. and Domingue, J. (2002). ClaiMaker: weaving a semantic web of research papers. In: First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2002), 9-12 Jun 2002, Sardinia, Italy.

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