Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa

• Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

This study critically evaluates gender assignment methods within academic contexts, employing a comparative analysis of diverse techniques, including a SVM classifier, gender-guesser, genderize.io, and a Cultural Consensus Theory based classifier. Emphasizing the significance of transparency, data sources, and methodological considerations, the res...

This study critically evaluates gender assignment methods within academic contexts, employing a comparative analysis of diverse techniques, including a SVM classifier, gender-guesser, genderize.io, and a Cultural Consensus Theory based classifier. Emphasizing the significance of transparency, data sources, and methodological considerations, the res...

The Easy-to-Read (E2R) Methodology was created to improve the daily life of people with cognitive disabilities. This methodology aims to present clear and easily understood documents. The E2R Methodology includes, among others, a set of guidelines related to the writing of texts. Some of these guidelines focus on morphological features that may cau...

Modelling the knowledge behind human experiences is a complex process: it should take into account, among others, the activities performed, human observations and the documentation of the evidence. To represent this knowledge in a declarative way means to support data interoperability in the context of cultural heritage artefacts, as linked dataset...

Doctoral education is a key feature of university systems, as well as a basic foundation of scientific practice. That period culminates in a dissertation and examination of the candidate that has been studied from several points of view. This paper reports the results of an analysis on the evolution and characteristics of gender imbalance of a comp...

The application of the easy-to-read (E2R) methodology is one of the ways to achieve cognitive accessibility and specifically, it is a path that guarantees the right of access to information of people with reading comprehension difficulties and thus improves their daily life. This methodology includes a set of guidelines and recommendations whose go...

Subtitles of audiovisual content produced in the same language as the oral discourse are called captions. Such type of subtitles is crucial to ensure that audiovisual resources have inclusive and equal access for people with functional diversity. When talking about people with reading comprehension difficulties, captions must be written in easy rea...

The Easy-to-Read (E2R) Methodology was created to improve the daily life of people with cognitive disabilities, who have difficulties in reading comprehension. The main goal of the E2R Methodology is to present clear and easily understood documents. This methodology includes a set of guidelines and recommendations that affect the writing of texts,...

OpenCourseWare (OCW) has become a desirable source for sharing free educational resources which means there will always be users with differing needs. It is therefore the responsibility of OCW platform developers to consider accessibility as one of their prioritized requirements to ensure ease of use for all, including those with disabilities. Howe...

Large scale cultural heritage datasets and computational methods for the Humanities research framework are the two pillars of Digital Humanities (DH), a research field aiming to expand Humanities studies beyond specific sources and periods to address macro-scale research questions on broad human phenomena. In this regard, the development of machine...

The syllabus is a relevant document to organize how the teaching-learning process will be carried out during an academic course in Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Usually, this document is written in a human-readable format that do not enable automatic processing through intelligent services to support teaching and learning. Therefore, we crea...

The fight against social exclusion is at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy: 120 million people are at risk of suffering this condition in the EU. Risk prediction models are widely used in insurance companies and health services. However, the use of these models to allow an early detection of social exclusion by social workers is not a common pr...

First look at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3315457 Even though one of the main characteristics of ontologies has always been claimed to be their reusability, throughout this paper it will be shown that ontology reuse across a given domain is not a consolidated practice. We have carried out a statistical study on ontology re...

This book contains extended versions of the best papers presented at the 14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, ICTERI 2018, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2018. The 14 revised full papers included in this volume along with one invited full paper were carefull...

Even though one of the main characteristics of ontologies has always been claimed to be their reusability, throughout this paper it will be shown that ontology reuse across a given domain is not a consolidated practice. We have carried out a statistical study on ontology reuse in the ontologies collected in Linked Open Vocabularies (LOV), in additi...

The fight against social exclusion is at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy: 120 million people are at risk of suffering this condition in the EU. Risk prediction models are widely used in insurance companies and health services. However, the use of these models to allow an early detection of social exclusion by social workers is not a common pr...

This volume represents the proceedings of the Main Conference, with Posters and Demonstrations track, of the 14th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2018. It comprises 47 contributed papers that were carefully peer-reviewed and selected from 119 sub-missions. The volume...

Data scientists are currently among the most demanded professionals in many spheres, including industries, governments, public sector, among others. This is due to several good reasons. Probably an important one of those reasons is the growing demand to find proper ways to face the challenges of establishing data-driven economies and societies. As...

This volume presents the proceedings of the Workshops co-located with the 14th International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications, held in Kyiv, Ukraine, in May 2018. It comprises 60 contributed papers that were carefully peer-reviewed and selected from 118 submissions for the five co-located workshops: ITER, TheRMI...

OpenCourseWare platforms for educational resources have the potential to open new horizons for knowledge sharing and e-learning by reaching learners beyond the constraints of traditional learning systems. SlideWiki is a crowd-sourcing platform that aims to rethink the creation and sharing of knowledge by providing an environment where authors can c...

Paper 'The SPAR Ontologies' is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The two-volume set LNCS 11136 and 11137 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2018, held in Monterey, USA, in October 2018. The ISWC conference is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community. The total of 62 full papers included in this volume was selected from...

The first contribution of this paper consists on a live catalogue of pitfalls that extends previous works on modeling errors with pitfalls resulting from an empirical analysis of numerous ontologies. Such a catalogue classifies pitfalls according to the Structural, Functional and Usability-Profiling dimensions. For each pitfall, we include the valu...

Prediction models are widely used in insurance companies and health services. Even when 120 million people are at risk of suffering poverty or social exclusion in the EU, this kind of models are surprisingly unusual in the field of social services. A fundamental reason for this gap is the difficulty in labeling and annotating social services data....

This book contains the best selected papers of two Satellite Events held at the 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, EKAW 2016, in November 2016 in Bologna, Italy: The Second International Workshop on Educational Knowledge Management, EKM 2016, and the First Workshop: Detection, Representation and Managem...

In the ontology engineering field, key aspects of real-world business contexts are not normally taken into account. One of these crucial aspects is that of planning and scheduling. Software engineering practitioners use different approaches and tools for planning and scheduling software development projects, whereas their counterparts in ontology e...

This paper describes a scenario-based methodology called the NeOn Methodology framework. The aim of this framework is to speed up the construction of ontologies and ontology networks by reusing available knowledge resources (ontologies, non-ontological resources and ontology design patterns). The methodology is founded on four pillars: (1)a glossar...

A growing number of ontologies are already available thanks to development initiatives in many different fields. In such ontology developments, developers must tackle a wide range of difficulties and handicaps, which can result in the appearance of anomalies in the resulting ontologies. Therefore, ontology evaluation plays a key role in ontology de...

This paper presents two contributions to the field of Ontology Evaluation. First, a live catalogue of pitfalls that extends previous works on modeling errors with new pitfalls resulting from an empirical analysis of over 693 ontologies. Such a catalogue classifies pitfalls according to the Structural, Functional and Usability- Profiling dimensions....

This paper addresses the lack of an explicitly agreed and defined terminology in the ontology engineering field, and particularly, the need for a glossary, which consists of terms and definitions for actions when developing ontologies. The novelty of this paper lies in the precise description of a methodology for building a glossary with the proces...

Knowledge resource reuse is becoming a widespread approach in the ontology engineering field because it can speed up the ontology development process. In this context, the NeOn Methodology specifies some guidelines for reusing different types of knowledge resources (ontologies, nonontological resources, and ontology design patterns). These guidelin...

Nowadays, a growing number of information retrieval systems make use of ontologies to improve the access to textual information, especially in domain-specific scenarios, where the knowledge provided by ontologies represents a key factor. Such kinds of retrieval systems are often referred to as ontology-based or semantic information retrieval system...

The growth in multimedia production has increased the size of audiovisual repositories, and has also led to the formation of increasingly large metadata collections about these contents. Deciding how these collections are effectively represented is challenging due to their variety and volume. Besides, large volumes also affect the performance of me...

Currently, there is a great deal of well-founded explicit knowledge formalizing general notions, such as time concepts and the part_of relation. Yet, it is often the case that instead of reusing ontologies that implement such notions (the so-called general ontologies), engineers create procedural programs that implicitly implement this knowledge. T...

The goal of the W3C’s Media Annotation Working Group is to promote interoperability between multimedia meta-data formats on the Web. As experienced by everybody, audio-visual data is omnipresent on today’s Web. However, different interaction interfaces and especially diverse metadata formats prevent unified access and navigation. Related to this, t...

The goal of the W3C’s Media Annotation Working Group (MAWG) is to promote interoperability between multimedia metadata formats on the Web. As experienced by everybody, audiovisual data is omnipresent on today’s Web. However, different interaction interfaces and especially diverse metadata formats prevent unified search, access, and navigation. MAWG...

A growing number of ontologies are already available thanks to development initiatives in many different fields. In such ontology developments, developers must tackle a wide range of difficulties and handicaps, which can result in the appearance of anomalies in the resulting ontologies. Therefore, ontology evaluation plays a key role in ontology de...

Research on Agents and Multi-agent Systems has matured during the last decade and many effective applications of this technology are now deployed. PAAMS provides an international forum to presents and discuss the latest scientific developments and their effective applications, to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology trans...

This chapter presents methodological guidelines that allow engineers to reuse generic ontologies. This kind of ontologies represents notions generic across many fields, (is part of, temporal interval, etc.). The guidelines helps the developer (a) to identify the type of generic ontology to be reused, (b) to find out the axioms and definitions that...

In order to manage properly ontology development projects in complex settings and to apply correctly the NeOn Methodology, it is crucial to have knowledge of the entire ontology development life cycle before starting the development projects. The ontology project plan and scheduling helps the ontology development team to have this knowledge and to...

The goal of the ontology requirements specification activity is to state why the ontology is being built, what its intended uses are, who the end users are, and which requirements the ontology should fulfill. This chapter presents detailed methodological guidelines for specifying ontology requirements efficiently. These guidelines will help ontolog...

While ontology engineering is rapidly entering the mainstream, expert ontology engineers are a scarce resource. Hence, there is a need for practical methodologies and technologies, which can assist a variety of user types with ontology development tasks. To address this need, this book presents a scenario-based methodology, the NeOn Methodology, wh...

Ontology quality can be affected by the difficulties involved in ontology modelling which may imply the appearance of anomalies in ontologies. This situation leads to the need of validating ontologies, that is, assessing their quality and correctness. Ontology validation is a key activity in different ontology engineering scenarios such as developm...

The application of methodologies for building ontologies can improve ontology quality. However, such quality is not guaranteed because of the difficulties involved in ontology modelling. These difficulties are related to the inclusion of anomalies or bad practices within the ontology development. Several authors have provided lists of typical anoma...

Knowledge resource reuse has become a popular approach within the ontology engineering field, mainly because it can speed up the ontology development process, saving time and money and promoting the application of good practices. The NeOn Methodology provides guidelines for reuse. These guidelines include the selection of the most appropriate knowl...

In this position paper, we claim that the need for time consuming da-ta preparation and result interpretation tasks in knowledge discovery, as well as for costly expert consultation and consensus building activities required for on-tology building can be reduced through exploiting the interplay of data mining and ontology engineering. The aim is to...

In contrast to other approaches that provide methodological guidance for ontology engineering, the NeOn Methodology does not prescribe a rigid workflow, but instead it suggests a variety of pathways for developing ontologies. The nine scenarios proposed in the methodology cover commonly occurring situations, for example, when available ontologies n...

The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies. These ontologies in turn are interlinked through a variety of different meta-relationships such as versioning, inclusion, and many more. This scenario is radically different from the relatively...

To speed up the ontology development process, ontology developers are reusing all available ontological and non-ontological resources, such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons, and so forth, that have already reached some consensus. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and storage system (or implementatio...

Many efforts have been made in the area of multimedia to bridge the so-called "semantic-gap" with the implementation of ontologies from 2001 to the present. In this paper, we provide a comparative study of the most well-known ontologies related to multimedia aspects. This comparative study has been done based on a framework proposed in this paper a...

Nowadays, ontologies have become a key mechanism to represent the knowledge of a specific domain. Domain ontologies can be used for different purposes, one of them is the development of semantic search engines that obtain precise results by considering the meaning of the Web content. The construction of these ontologies usually requires a large amo...

In the beginning of the 90s, ontology development was similar to an art: ontology developers did not have clear guidelines on how to build ontologies but only some design criteria to be followed. Work on principles, methods and methodologies, together with supporting technologies and languages, made ontology development become an engineering discip...

Ontologies implemented in RDF(S), DAML+OIL, and OWL should be evaluated from the point of view of knowledge representation before using them in Semantic Web applications. Several language-dependent ontology validation tools and ontology platforms, such as OilEd with FaCT, can be used in order to evaluate RDF(S), DAML+OIL and OWL ontologies. This pa...

To speed up the ontology development process, ontology developers are reusing all available ontological and non-ontological resources, such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons, and so forth, that have already reached some consensus. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and storage system (or implementatio...

The widespread use of mobile devices is leading to a next generation of applications that exploit user contextual information to provide a richer experience. One of the activities to perform during the development of these context-aware applications is to define a model to represent and manage context information. Currently, there is a lack of cons...

Reusing knowledge resources, specifically Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), has became a popular technique within the ontology engineering field. Such a reuse allows speeding up the ontology development process, saving time and money, and promoting the application of good practices. Recently methods and tools to support the reuse of ODPs have emerge...

The so-called Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), which have been defined as solutions to ontological design problems, are of great help to developers when modelling ontologies since these patterns provide a development guide and improve the quality of the resulting ontologies. However, it has been demonstrated that, in many cases, developers encounte...

The goal of the ontology requirements specification activity is to state why the ontology is being built, what its intended uses are, who the end-users are, and which requirements the ontology should fulfill. The novelty of this paper lies in the systematization of the ontology requirements specification activity since the paper proposes detailed m...

In this poster, we present a set of nine scenarios, identified in the NeOn Methodology, for building ontology networks.

In this paper we describe how linguistic patterns can contribute to ontology development by enabling an easier reuse of some ontological resources. In particular, our research focuses on the reuse of ontology design patterns and ontology statements by relying on linguistic constructs at different stages of the reuse process. With this aim, we propo...

Untrained users in the development of ontologies are challenged by the formal representation languages that underlie the most common ontology editing tools. To reduce that barrier, many efforts have gone in the creation of Controlled Languages (CL) translatable into ontology structures. However, CLs fall short of addressing a more profound problem:...

Los denominados patrones de diseño ontológico (Ontology Design Patterns u ODPs), definidos como soluciones a problemas de diseño, suponen una ayuda para los desarrolladores durante la modelización de ontologías, proporcionan una guía en el desarrollo y en la evaluación, y mejoran la calidad de las ontologías resultantes. Sin embargo, se ha demostra...

This pattern for re-engineering non-ontological resources (PR-NOR) fits in the Schema Re-engineering Category proposed by [3]. The pattern defines a procedure that transforms the term-based thesaurus components into ontology representational primitives. This pattern comes from the experience of ontology engineers in developing ontologies using thesau...

The so-called Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), which have been defined as solutions to ontological design problems, are of great help to developers when modelling ontologies since these patterns provide a development guide and improve the quality of the resulting ontologies. However, it has been demonstrated that, in many cases, developers encounte...

The 1990s and the first years of this new millennium have witnessed the growing interest of many practitioners in methodologies that support the creation of single or isolated ontologies. All these approaches have supposed a step forward since they have transformed the art of constructing single ontologies into an engineering activity. With the goa...

With the goal of speeding up the ontology development process, ontology engineers are starting to reuse as much as possible available ontologies and non-ontological resources such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons and folksonomies, that already have some degree of consensus. The reuse of such non-ontological resources necessarily involv...

Experiments in the reuse of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have revealed that users with different levels of expertise in ontology modelling face difficulties when reusing ODPs. With the aim of tackling this problem we propose a method and a tool for supporting a semi-automatic reuse of ODPs that takes as input formulations in natural language (NL...

The Semantic Web of the future will be characterized by using a very large number of ontologies embedded in ontology networks. It is important to provide strong methodological support for collaborative and context-sensitive development of networks of ontologies. This methodological support includes the identification and definition of which activit...

This paper presents our experience in reusing mereology ontologies in a Pharmaceutical Product ontology, an ontology built by the EU NeOn project. It shows a set of mereology ontologies implemented in different machine interpretable languages and analyzes them according to the different types of mereology identified by Varzi. Then, it describes the...

To build an ontology, ontology developers should devise first a concrete plan for the ontology development, that is, they should establish the ontology life cycle. To do this, ontology developers should answer two key questions: a) which ontology life cycle model is the most appropriate for their ontology project? and b) which particular activities...

In this paper we describe the relationship between Urban Civil

This project aims at creating a network of distributed interoperable semantic services for building more complex ones. These services will be available in semantic Web service libraries, so that they can be invoked by other systems (e.g., semantic portals, software agents, etc.). Thus, to accomplish this objective, the project proposes: a) To creat...

This document describes the software architecture for implementing a system for managing thefisheries ontologies lifecycle, cornerstone of WP7. The lifecycle described in this deliverable is aninstantiation of the possible lifecycles that can be carried out with the NeOn toolkit, and has beenselected according to FAO needs, style of work and organi...

ODESeW allows developing ontology-based Web portals. We describe the functionalities offered by a specific deployment of the ODESeW application development platform, oriented to the management of EU R&D projects. As an example of this specific deployment, we focus on the project management functionalities currently provided for the EU KnowledgeWeb1...

This demo presents a Semantic-Web-based knowledge management system that supports R&D European Projects in different aspects: dissemination of project information and generation of management reports for the European Commission (EC).

Ontologies have seen quite an enormous development and application in many domains within the last years, especially in the context of the next web generation, the Semantic Web. Besides the work of countless researchers across the world, industry starts developing ontologies to support their daily operative business. Currently, most ontologies exis...

EU-IST Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482 KWEB Deliverable D1.3.2 (WP1.3). This deliverable presents a set of structured metadata for evaluated and certified ontologies.

Both ontology content and ontology building tools evaluations play an important role before using ontologies in Semantic Web applications. In this paper we try to assess ontology evaluation functionalities of the following ontology platforms: OilEd, OntoEdit, Protégé-2000, and WebODE. The goal of this paper is to analyze whether such ontology platf...

This paper presents ODESeW (Semantic Web Portal based on WebODE platform (1)) as an ontology-based application that automatically generates and manages a knowledge portal for Intranets and Extranets. ODESeW is designed on the top of WebODE ontology engineering platform. This paper shows the service architecture that allows configuring the visualiza...

This paper presents the results of the interoperability experiment proposed in EON2003, using the following ontology tools: Prot?g?-2000 and WebODE. We will show which knowledge is preserved and which knowledge is lost in the import/export processes between tools when using RDF(S) as an intermediate language.

Before using RDF(S) and DAML+OIL ontologies in Semantic Web applications, its content should be evaluated from a knowledge representation point of view. In recent years, some RDF(S) and DAML+OIL ‘checkers’, ‘validators’, and ‘parsers’ have been created and several ontology platforms are able to import RDF(S) and DAML+OIL ontologies. Two are the exp...

EU-IST Network of Excellence (NoE) IST-2004-507482 KWEB Deliverable D1.3.2 (WP1.3) This deliverable presents a set of structured metadata for evaluated and certified ontologies.