Web Intelligence Technologies

Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield

Welcome

The Web Intelligence Technologies group is part of the NLP Research Group within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield.

We do research on, and provide applications of, Intelligent Technologies for tomorrow's Web, with a particular focus on their use for Knowledge Management. Our activity develops in two directions:

  1. Technologies for Acquisition of Knowledge from document collections; this includes:
    • Large Scale Mining of Document Repositories;
    • Information Extraction from Documents.
  2. Technologies for Knowledge Sharing and Reuse; this includes:
    • Document annotation methodologies, with a particular focus on semi-automatic methods for document annotation;
    • Intelligent methods to access dispersed information in large repositories.

The group is coordinated by Professor Fabio Ciravegna and is comprised of researchers and PhD students.

News

New Projects

  • WeKnowIt: European Integrated Project on Collective Intelligence invited to negotiation under FP7 (expected start: April 2008)
  • eArchaeology: new project funded by AHRC + EPSRC approved! In collaboration with the "University of York, Department of Archaeology (£370,000)
  • Summer Internship funded by Lycos (4 months, 3 students; September 2007-December 2007)

Invited Talks

Tutorials