Labs Events

Latest Update

NHS self assessment in BBC story: is this the answer? http://labs.sitekit.net/Default.aspx.LocID-02qnew01n.RefLocID-02q00d002.Lang-EN.htm
Mon Mar 08

RT: @patientopinion "60% of hospitals inspected gave inaccurate information in assessing their performance" says #BBC http://bit.ly/vQju9
Mon Mar 08

Sitekit Lab Notes newsletter 2010/1 is out.
Fri Mar 05

Erik's paper on Crowd Validation of health services accepted for WebSci 2010 conference in Raleigh NC
Wed Mar 03

Campbell at Intellectual Assets Centre (IAC) board meeting today
Thu Feb 25

Erik and Chris are now registered for WebSci10
Thu Feb 25

Do you know a really good internal sales/marketing assistant? Let me know as we are currently recruiting www.sitekit.net/Internal-Sales.htm
Tue Feb 23

Campbell attending Glasgow University industry open day today
Tue Feb 23

RT @websciencetrust: Web Science 'comes of age' http://webscience.org/article/83
Tue Feb 23

RT @WWW2010: Registration for WWW2010 and the collocated conferences (WebScience, W4A and FutureWeb) is now open. http://is.gd/8yesP
Tue Feb 23

Intelligent Web Applications

This EPSRC funded Industrial CASE Studentship PhD research project aims to: ‘develop and apply novel software agents using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for blending the “OpenMind" database with any given ontology'.

Hence, to build a novel intelligent software agent that can auto-categorise documents for Knowledge and Content Management applications more accurately than current (statistical based) techniques. We expect the engine to have commercial applications in supporting the development of intelligent web applications whose design and content can dynamically adapt to the user.

Thanks to ‘Common Sense Computing’, web applications are learning to understand the real meaning that lies in the data they are dealing with, instead of just blindly search and retrieve information by keywords, and hence provide a more accurate service.

Moreover, Common Sense Computing can make web services be more intuitive and people-friendly. Applied in conjunction with NLP technologies, it dramatically enhances the HCI, which is a key element for many applications especially in the fields of e-commerce, e-tourism and e-health.

The primary researcher is Erik Cambria (Italy) working under the principal academic supervision of Dr. Amir Hussain, the Project's Principal Investigator and Reader in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, (Scotland), and with industrial supervision of Chris Eckl, Research Director at Sitekit Labs (Isle of Skye, Scotland).

The research will be in collaboration with Catherine Havasi of MIT Media Lab (USA) who was part of the research team that pioneered the concept of Common Sense Computing, which will be further developed and researched as part of the project in the context of semantic web mining.