Dr Maria Vargas-Vera Home Page
Maria - photo taken in York,
United Kingdom (2003) ---
photos from Mexico can be found
at the bottom of this
page.
Note: this page does not cover all my professional
activities.
I graduated in Mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences, National
Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM),
Then, I did a Master in Computer Sciences at UNAM and I obtained my PhD from the Artificial Intelligence
Department at Edinburgh University Scotland UK.
Research Interests:
I am interested in the use of Ontologies
in NLP (Natural Language Processing). Currently, I work on Ontology-Based
Information Extraction, Question Answering, Automated Assessment of Student
Essays, Semi-Automatic Construction of Ontologies
from text , Information Retrieval and Ontology mapping.
Teaching:
De Montfort University, England, UK. (terms).
- MSc course
''Intelligent Systems'', Faculty of
Computing Sciences and Engineering, Department of Computer &
Information Sciences, Autumn term (September 2002 until January 2003).
Sciences Faculty -
Mathematics Department, National University of Mexico (UNAM) (semesters).
- Artificial Intelligence, Science Faculty UNAM,
semester 98-2 and semester 2000-1.
- Database Systems, Science Faculty UNAM, semester 2000-1.
- Functional and Logic Programming, Science
Faculty UNAM, semester 99-1 and semester 99-2.
- Expert Systems, Science Faculty UNAM, semester
98-2.
Edinburgh University, Scotland UK. Demonstrator of the following courses (terms):
- Artificial Intelligence II Edinburgh
University, term 92-I
- Artificial Intelligence I Edinburgh
University, term 91-II
National University of Mexico (UNAM)- courses in Mathematics and Computer
Science (semesters).
- Data Structures: 6 month course (given twice), 1990-1991.
- Compiler Theory: 6 month course, 1991.
- Linear Algebra I, II, and Advanced: each 6
months long (I gave this series 3
times) 1980-1982.
- Introduction to Computers: 6 month course (given 3 times), 1980-1982.
- Discrete Mathematics: 6 months course, 1990.
- Data
Structures: Instituto Tecnologico Monterrey Campus Toluca, Mexico, 1989.
- Expert Systems course for the ``Continuing
Education for Engineers'' Programme, 1991.
My Students:
Current students:
Former students:
Supervised internships:
- David Celjuska,
2003.
- Mattia Lanzoni, 2001.
Member of PhD related Committees:
External Examiner:
- External Examiner (President of the Jury),
National University of Mexico,
September 2006.
- PhD External Examiner, Robert
Gordon University,
February, 2004. Aberdeen, Scotland
UK.
Teaching interests:
Artificial Intelligence, Expert Systems, Knowledge Representation,
Database Systems, Logic Programming, Natural Language Processing, Information
Retrieval and Machine Learning.
Research:
Current Projects:
KnowledgeWeb. Knowledge Web
is a FP6 Network of Excellence that aims to support the transition of Ontology
technology from Academia to Industry. The current consortium is integrated by
18 participants including leading partners in Semantic Web, Multimedia, Human
Language Technology, Workflow and Agents.
AKT is a multi-million pound, six-year
collaboration between internationally recognized research groups at the
Universities of Southampton, Aberdeen,
Edinburgh, Sheffield
and the Open University. AKT aims to tackle fundamental problems associated
with the management of knowledge.
·
CONQUIRO
A Cluster-Based
Information Retrieval Meta-search Engine. CONQUIRO
provides a suite of
clustering methods: hierarchical and
non-hierarchical clustering methods. CONQUIRO
represents a solution to the problem of information management.
·
AGENT_AQUA Agent
Based Question Answering System.
·
AQUA Ontology driven Question Answering System.
AQUA combines Natural Language processing (NLP), Ontologies,
Logic, and Information Retrieval technologies in a uniform framework. AQUA makes intensive use
of an ontology in several parts of the question answering system. Typical
questions using AQUA as closed-domain Question Answering System can be found at AQUA-QUESTIONS.
·
MAOM-QA Multi-Agent
Ontology Mapping for Question Answering. We are
participating in the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative Contest 2006.(DSSim system).
Past Projects:
1. AKT related projects (The Open University)
·
SVE
Student
Essay Viewer. A tool that allows tutors and students to visualize argumentation
in student essays.
·
EVENT (Event
Recognition on News Stories). A tool which allows to
recognize events happening in a news stories and populates a
hand-crafted ontology.
·
ONTOSOPHIE is our new tool for Semi-Automatic Population of Ontologies from Text with confidence values associated to both
the extraction rules and extracted values (extracted slots).
·
MnM Semi-Automatic Population of Ontologies
from Text using Amilcare. MnM is the most well
known tool (in the Semantic Web Community) for ontology-driven semantic mark-up.
MnM allows also to populate a given ontology.
·
INFOEXTRACTOR
Semi-Automatic Population of Ontologies from Text
using Marmot, Crystal and Badger.
2. Machine Learning
Extraction
of Fuzzy Rules (National University of Mexico)
3. Fuzzy Logic and Objects
Fril++: An Object-Oriented Fuzzy Logic Programming Language (Bristol University, England UK)
4. Construction of Logic Programs using the idea of Program Schemata
Automatic
Programming -- Program Composition (Edinburgh University, Scotland UK)
5. Object-Oriented Databases & Logic Programming
A Copy
Structure-Based Prolog interpreter for a Unix System (National University of Mexico)
Program Committees (Conference/Workshops):
- Member
of the Program Committee of the Workshop Building and Applying Ontologies for the Semantic Web, in association
with 12th Portuguese Conference on
Artificial Intelligence EPIA 2005.
- Member of the Program Committee of the
2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2005).
September 19-22, 2005,
Compiègne University of
Technology, France.
- Member of the Program
Committee of the IADIS Virtual
Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems MULTI 2005.
Web Applications and Research (WAR2005).
- Member of the Program
Committee of the 4rd International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and
Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot 2004) in
Association with 3rd International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2004, Hiroshima,
Japan, 8 November 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on the
Application of Language and Semantic Technologies to Support Knowledge
Management Processes EKAW-04. Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK.
8 October, 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of the 2004 IEEE/WIC/ACM
International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2004). Beijing
China, September 20-24 2004.
- Member of the Program Committee of The
Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology,
Systems, Applications (AIMSA 2004). Varna
Bulgaria September 2-4, 2004.
- Member of
the Program Committee of the Knowledge
Markup & Semantic Annotation Workshop, K-CAP 2003, Sanibel Island,
Florida Orlando, October
25-26, 2003.
- Member of
the Program Committee of the Second
International Semantic Web
Conference (ISWC-2003) , October 20-23, Sanibel Island, Florida
Orlando, 2003.
- Member of the Program Committee of the Human Language
Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services Workshop. ISWC-2003,
20-23 October, Sanibel Island, Florida
Orlando, 2003.
Reviewer:
- IEEE
Joint Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC-06) and Enterprise
Computing, E-Commerce and E-Services (EEE-06), San
Francisco California, June 26-29, 2006.
- ACM Transaction on Asian
Languages Information Processing (TALIP) Special Issue on Reasoning in
NLP. February 2006.
- The Seventh
International Conference on Web-Age Information Management. Hong Kong,
China, June 17-19, 2006.
- The
8th Asia Pacific Web Conference APWeb2006. Harbin
China, January 16-18, 2006.
- IEEE Journal on
Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B : Cybernetics,
September 2005.
- IJHCS special issue on
ontologies and knowledge representation.
September, 2005.
- AAAI-05:
Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, July 9-13 2005.
- RANLP-05: Recent Advances in Natural
Language Processing 2005. Borovets,
Bulgaria, 18-24
September 2005.
- The
Fourth International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(MICAI-2005), Monterrey Mexico, November
14-18 2005.
- Ontologies in
the Context of Information Systems. Editors Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh and Raj Sharman. Springer Verlag
Fall 2005.
- Workshop
on Semantic Web Technology for Mobile and Ubiquitous Applications,
ISWC 04. Hiroshima Japan,
November 7 2004.
- IEEE
Journal on Systems, Man and Cybernetics -
Part B : Cybernetics, June 2004.
- The
1st European Semantic Web Symposium, Heraklion, Greece,
May 10-12, 2004.
- The International Journal ACM
Transactions on Internet Technology, November 2004.
- The 8th ACM International Conference on Intelligent User
Interfaces IUI 2004. Funchal, Madeira
Island, Portugal,
January 13-16, 2004,
- Book: New Directions
on Question Answering, MIT press, 2003.
- The
Second
International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-03),
Oct 23-25, USA, 2003.
- The
2003 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2003). Budapest,
Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.
- Special
issue on the Semantic Web of the Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks,
October 2002.
- Euroweb 2002
Conference. The Web and the GRID: from e-science to e-business. St
Anne's College Oxford UK,
December 17-18, 2002.
- The
13th
International Conference on Knowledge Engineering on
Knowledge Management (EKAW02). Siguenza Spain,
October 1-4, 2002.
- The Workshop on Knowledge Management through
Corporate Semantic Webs (KMSW) held in association with The 13th
International Conference on Knowledge Engineering on Knowledge
Management (EKAW02). Siguenza Spain,
September 30, 2002.
- Workshop
on Ontologies for Multi-Agent systems (OMAS)
held in conjuction with the 13th International Conference on Knowledge
Engineering on Knowledge Management (EKAW02). Siguenza
Spain, September 30, 2002.
- The
International Semantic Web Conference ISWC2002, Sardinia
Italy. June 10-12, 2002.
- The
International Workshop on the Semantic Web in conjunction with The Eleventh International World Wide
Web Conference (WWW2002), Honolulu, Hawaii. May 7,
2002.
- Ontologies and
Information Sharing Workshop at IJCAI-01, Seattle
Washington, USA.
August 4-5, 2001.
- First
International Conference on Knowledge Capture (KCAP-01), Victoria
B.C. Canada.
Oct 21-23, 2001.
- Human
Language Technology and Knowledge Management Workshop (HTL & KM) ACL-EACL 2001,
Toulouse France. July 6-11 2001. (Association for Computational
Linguistic).
Most recent publications:
Refereed Books/Journals:
- Maria
Vargas-Vera, Emanuela Moreale,
Arthur Stutt, Enrico
Motta and Fabio Ciravegna. MnM: Semi-Automatic
Ontology Population from Text. Ontologies:
A Handbook of Principles, Concepts and Applications in Information Systems,
Editors Rajiv Kishore, Ram Ramesh,
and Raj Sharman. Chapter 13, Springer Verlag, ISBN-10:
0-387-37019-6. December, 2006.
- Victoria Uren, Philipp Cimiano, Siegfried Hanndschuh, Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta and Fabio Ciravegna. Semantic
Annotation Systems for Knowledge Management: A Survey of Requirements and
State of the Art: Journal of Web Semantics, Volume 4, Issue
1, pp. 14-28, Elsevier,
January 2006. http://www.semanticwebjournal.org/ or alternatively can be found at
http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1570826805000338
- Emanuela Moreale and Maria Vargas-Vera. Semantic
Services in E-Learning: an Argumentation Case Study. IFETS Journal
Special issue Ontologies and the Semantic Web
for E-learning,
IEEE Educational Technology Journal, Volume 7 Issue 4, pp.
112-128, October 2004. http://www.ifets.info/journals/7_4/ets_7_4_contents.pdf
Alternatively can be also found at http://www.ifets.info/index.php?
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
Enrico Motta, John Domingue,
Mattia Lanzoni,
Arthur Stutt
and Fabio Ciravegna. MnM: Ontology Driven
Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup. Selected AKT
papers (2003), pp. 42-55. Ed. N. Shadbolt, ISBN
0854 327932. http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/06.pdf
- David Celjuska
and Maria Vargas-Vera. Semi-automatic
Population of Ontologies from Text. Workshop
on Data Analysis WDA 2004, pp. 33-49. Eds. J Paralic,
G. Polzlbauer and A. Rauber.
ISBN 80-89066-87-9, Slovakia, June 2004.
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta
and Simon Buckingham-Shum. Template-Driven
Information Extraction for PopulatingOntologies. Selected AKT papers
(2003), pp. 17-22. Ed N. Shadbolt, ISBN 0854
327932. http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/03.pdf
- Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, Enrico
Motta, Maria Vargas-Vera
and Simon Buckingham-Shum. myPlanet:
an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service. Selected AKT
papers (2003), pp. 140-148. Ed. N. Shadbolt, ISBN 0854. http://www.aktors.org/publications/selected-papers/15.pdf
- James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria
Vargas-Vera. Fril++: an Object-based Extensions
to Fril. Logic Programming and Soft
Computing, by Research Studies Press, pp 223-240. Eds. Trevor Martin and Francesca Arcelli, 1998.
- Andy Bowles, Dave Robertson, Wamberto Vasconcelos, Maria
Vargas-Vera and Diana Bental. Applying
Prolog Programming Techniques. International Journal of Human-Computer
Studies, 41(3):329-350, 1994.(Also research paper 641, Dept. of Artificial
Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1993).
Refereed Conferences/Workshops:
- Maria Vargas-Vera and
Yesica Castellanos. CONQUIRO: A Cluster-Based Information Retrieval
Engine. The
First International Congress of Computing CiComp-06. Ensenada, BC, Mexico, November 6-8, 2006.
- Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and
Enrico Motta. DSSim-ontology
Mapping with Uncertainty. International Worshop on Ontology Matching OM-2006, collocated
with the 5th International Semantic Web Conference ISWC-2006, Athens Georgia
USA, November 5-9 2006.
- Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Uncertainty Handling in the
Context of Ontology Mapping for Question Answering. AAAI-2006 Symposium
on Semantic Web for Collaborative Knowledge Acquisition. Hyatt Crystal
City, Arlington VA, October 12-15, 2006.
- David Celjuska
and Maria Vargas-Vera. Ontosophie: A Semi-Automatic System for Ontology
Population from Text.
International Conference on Natural Language Processing ICON 2004,
Hyderabad, India, December 19-22,
2004
- Maria Vargas-Vera
and David Celjuska.
Event
Recognition on News Stories and Semi-Automatic Population of an Ontology.
IEEE/ACM International Joint Conference on Intelligent Agent and Web
Intelligence (WI 2004), pp. 615-618. Beijing,
China, September 20-24, 2004, publisher IEEE Computer Society Press,
2004.
- Emanuela
Moreale and Maria
Vargas-Vera. A
Question-Answering System Using Argumentation. Third International
Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence(MICAI-2004), Lecture Notes
in Computer Science 2972 Springer Verlag, Eds R. Monroy, G. Arroyo-Figueroa, L.E. Sucar
and J.H Sossa Azuela. pp.400-409,
Mexico City, April
26-30, 2004.
- Maria Vargas-Vera
and Enrico Motta. AQUA - Ontology-based Question Answering System.
Third International Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(MICAI-2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2972 Springer Verlag. Eds R. Monroy, G. Arroyo-Figueroa, L.E. Sucar and J.H. Sossa Azuela.
pp. 468-477, Mexico City, April 26-30, 2004.
- Emanuela Moreale
and Maria Vargas-Vera. Genre
Analysis and the Automated Extraction of Arguments from Student Essays.
The Seventh International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference
(CAA-2003), pp.
271-286, Loughborough
University, 8-9 July 2003.
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
Enrico Motta and John Domingue. AQUA:
An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System. AAAI Spring Symposium, New Directions in
Question Answering, Stanford University,
pp. 53-57, March 24-26, 2003.
- Maria
Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni,Arthur Stutt and Fabio Ciravegna. MnM:
Ontology Driven Semi-Automatic and Automatic Support for Semantic Markup.
The 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Management
(EKAW 2002), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2473, pp. 379-391. Ed. Gomez-Perez, A., Springer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-540-44268-5. Note that this paper has been cited widely in different research communities
such as: NLP, Bioinformatics, Semantic Web, Databases, Ontologies,
Knowledge Acquisition, Agents, Learning, E-Commerce, E-Government and
Hypertext.
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
Enrico Motta, John Domingue,
Mattia Lanzoni,
Arthur Stutt
and Fabio Ciravegna. MnM:
Ontology Driven Tool for Semantic
Markup. In proceedings of the Workshop Semantic Authoring, Annotation
& Knowledge Markup (SAAKM 2002), held in conjuction
with the 15th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2002), pp. 43-47, Lyon France, July 22-23, 2002. http://SunSITE.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-100/
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
John Domingue, Enrico Motta,
Simon Buckingham Shum and Mattia Lanzoni.
Knowledge
Extraction by using an Ontology-based Annotation Tool. In proceedings of the Workshop Knowledge Markup & Semantic
Annotation, held in conjuction with the First International Conference on
Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2001), pp.
5-12. Victoria Canada, October 2001.
- John Domingue, Enrico
Motta, Simon Buckingham Shum,
Maria Vargas-Vera and Yannis
Kalfoglou. Supporting
Ontology Driven Document Enrichment within Communities of Practice.The First
International Conference on Knowledge Capture, pp. 30-37. Victoria Canada,October 21-13, 2001.
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta
and Simon Buckingham-Shum. Template-Driven
Information Extraction for Populating Ontologies. In proceedings of
the Workshop Ontology Learning IJCAI-2001, Seattle,
USA, 4 August 2001. http://ceur-ws.org
(CEUR Workshop proceedings Vol-38).
- Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue, Enrico
Motta, Maria Vargas-Vera
and Simon Buckingham-Shum. myPlanet:
an ontology-driven Web-based personalised news service. In proceedings
of the Workshop Ontologies and Information
Sharing IJCAI-2001, pp. 44-52. Seattle, USA,
4-5 August 2001. http://ceur-ws.org (CEUR Workshop proceedings Vol-47).
- James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria
Vargas-Vera. Fril++ a Language for Object-Oriented Programming with
Uncertainty. Lectures Notes of Artificial Intelligence 1566. Ed. Anca Ralescu, Springer Verlag, 1999, pp. 62-78. ISBN 3-540-66374-6.
- James F. Baldwin, Trevor. P. Martin and Maria
Vargas-Vera. Integration
of Fuzzy Logic and the Object-Oriented Paradigm. In proceedings of the
workshop Fuzzy
Logic in Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-97, pp. 13-18. Nagoya
Japan,
23-24 August 1997.
- James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria
Vargas-Vera. A Data Browser using
Fuzzy Objects and Fril++. In proceedings of
the Workshop Fuzzy Logic: Applications and Future Directions, pp. 167-182.
London, 18-19 March 1997.
- James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria
Vargas-Vera Fril++:
Design and Implementation. In proceedings of the Workshop Fuzzy Logic: Applications and
Future Directions, pp. 183-194. London,
18-19 March 1997.
- Trevor P. Martin, Maria
Vargas-Vera and James F. Baldwin. Learning Fuzzy
Classes in Object Models. EUFIT-97: The 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft
Computing, pp. 1142-1146. Aachen
Germany,
8-11 September 1997.
- Maria Vargas-Vera
and James F. Baldwin. Combining Objects
and Fuzzy Logic. EUFIT-97: The 5th European Congress on Intelligent
Techniques and Soft Computing, pp. 992-996. Aachen
Germany,
8-11 September 1997.
- James.F. Baldwin,
Trevor P. Martin and Maria Vargas-Vera. A Data
Browser in Fril++ using Object-Oriented Logic Programming
with Uncertainty. PAP97: The Fifth International Conference on
Practical Application of Prolog, pp. 32-51, London,
April 1997.
- Maria Vargas-Vera. Using Prolog
Techniques to Guide Program Composition. PhD. Thesis, Dept. of
Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh
University, 1995. PhD. Thesis
number 9508.
- Maria Vargas-Vera and Dave Robertson. An
Environment for Combining Prolog Programs Based on Knowledge about their Construction.The 10th
Workshop on Logic Programming (WLP 94), University of Zurich, pp. 73-76, October
1994. (Also research paper 718, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Edinburgh, 1994 and also Technical Report 94/10, Institut fur Informatik der Universitat Zurich, September
1994).
- Maria
Vargas-Vera, Wamberto W. Vasconcelos and Dave Robertson. Building
Large-Scale Prolog Programs using a Techniques Editing System. Presented
as poster in International Logic Programming Symposium. MIT Press, pp 636,
October 1993. (Also research paper 635, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Edinburgh, 1993).
- Maria Vargas-Vera, Dave Robertson and Robert Inder. Combining
Prolog Programs in a Techniques Editing System. Third International
Workshop on Logic Programming Synthesis and Transformation, Springer Verlag, pp. 82-84, July 1993. (Also research paper
636, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1993).
- Maria Vargas-Vera. Combining
Prolog Programs using Knowledge about their Construction History.
ALP-UK Workshop on Logic Programming Support Environments}. Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University
of Edinburgh, 16-17 September
1993.
- Maria
Vargas-Vera, Rolando Carrera and Francisco Cervantes. CELOG: an Environment for C, Assembler and Logic.
Second Iberoamerican Congress on Artificial
Intelligence (IBERAMIA 90), Morelia,
Michoacan, Mexico,
1990.(Also research paper 553, IIMAS-National
University of Mexico, 1989).
- Maria Vargas-Vera. A
Copy Structure-Based Prolog Interpreter. M Sc Thesis at National
University of Mexico.
- Maria
Vargas-Vera and Rolando Carrera. An
Interpreter for Prolog using Copy-Structure Technique.
International Conference on
Information Science, Habana,
Cuba, 1988.(Also research paper 496, IIMAS-National University of
Mexico, 1987).
- Maria
Vargas-Vera and Rolando Carrera. An Interpreter
for Prolog. First Iberoamerican Congress
on Artificial Intelligence IBERAMIA 88), Spain
1988. (Also research paper 481, IIMAS-National University of Mexico,
1987).
- Maria Vargas-Vera. Undergraduate thesis at
National University of Mexico. This not listed in this page.
Technical Reports:
- Miklos Nagy, Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. Probabilistic
Methods for Data Integration in a Multi-Agent Query Answering System.,
KMI-06-08,The Open University, March 2006.
- Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. AQUA a
Question Answering System for Heterogeneous Sources. KMI-04-20, The Open University, October, 2004.
- Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. A
Knowledge-Based Approach to Ontologies Data
Integration. KMI-TR-152, The Open University,
July 2004.
- Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. An
Ontology-driven Similarity Algorithm. KMI-TR-151, Knowledge Media Institute,
The Open University,
July 2004.
- Maria Vargas-Vera and Enrico Motta. AQUA:A Knowledge-Based Architecture for Question Answering,
KMI-TR-150, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, July, 2004.
- Gaston Burek
and Maria Vargas-Vera. Document retrieval
based on intelligent query formulation. KMI-TR-147, Knowledge Media
Institute, The Open University, June 2004.
- Maria
Vargas-Vera and David Celjuska. Ontology-Driven
Event Recognition on Stories. KMI-TR-135,
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, November
2003.
- Maria
Vargas-Vera and David Celjuska. Event
Recognition using Information Extraction Techniques. KMI-TR-134,
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, October
2003.
- Maria Vargas-Vera, Enrico Motta, John Domingue, Mattia Lanzoni, Arthur Stutt, Fabio Ciravegna. MnM: A Tool for Automatic Support on Semantic Markup.
KMI-TR-133, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open
University, October 2003.
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
Enrico Motta and John Domingue.
An
Ontology-Driven Question Answering System (AQUA). KMI-TR-129,
Knowledge Media Institute,The
Open University, June 2003.
- Md Maruf Hasan,
Enrico Motta, John Domingue,
Simon Buckingham Shum, Maria
Vargas-Vera and Mattia
Lanzoni. A Spreading
Activation Framework for Ontology-enhanced Adaptive Information Access.
KMI-TR-122, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open
University, September 2002.
- Maria Vargas-Vera,
John Domingue, Yannis Kalfoglou, Enrico Motta
and Simon Buckingham Shum. Integration of
Information Extraction with an Ontology.
KMI-TR-109, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, May 2001.
- Yannis Kalfoglou, John Domingue,
Leslie Carr, Enrico Motta, Maria
Vargas-Vera, Simon Buckingham Shum.
On the
integration of technologies for capturing and navigating knowledge with
ontology-driven services. KMI-TR-106, Knowledge Media Institute, The
Open University, May 2001.
- James F. Baldwin, Trevor P. Martin and Maria
Vargas-Vera. Fril++ an Object-Oriented Fuzzy Logic Programming Language.
ITRC 240A, Dept. Of Engineering Maths, University
of Bristol, 1996.
- Maria Vargas-Vera, Dave Robertson and Robert Inder. A Mathematical
Framework for the Problem of Combination of Prolog Programs, Research Paper 612,
Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1992.
- Maria Vargas-Vera, Dave Robertson and Robert Inder. An Environment
for Combining Prolog Programs, Research Paper 610, Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, 1992.
- Maria Vargas-Vera. A Techniques
Editor for Prolog, DP-106, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University
of Edinburgh, 1991.
·
Publications in Citeseer DataBase
Keynote speeches:
Session Chair:
Organized workshops:
Expert Project Evaluator:
- I have been involved in referring international
project bids for the European Commission (Brussels 2005). In particular Expert
Evaluator for the 6th EU Framework programme for
research, technology development and demonstration (FP6), call under the
strategic objective "Semantic based Knowledge and Content
Systems", Brussels, 18 to
27 April 2005.
Editorial Board:
·
Associated Editor: Revista Iberoamericana Computacion y Sistemas
(included in the list of Scientific Journals of Excellence, of CONACyT—Mexican Ministry of Science and Technology);
internationally refereed, ISSN 1405-5546, from March 2006 to present.
Memberships:
- Member of Florida
Artificial Intelligence Research Society.
- Member of Mexican Society of Artificial
Intelligence (SMIA).
Talks:
- Invited departamental seminar, AQUA-Ontology-Driven
Question Answering System. The
Robert Gordon
University, Scotland,
UK. February 11 2004.
- Internal departamental seminar, AQUA:
An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System. Mathematics and
Computing Department, The Open University, England, UK.
March 2003.
- Internal KMI seminar, AQUA: An Ontology-Driven Question Answering System. Knowledge
Media Institute, The Open University, England, UK.
March 2003.
- Internal departmental seminar,. Pattern-Driven Information
Extraction. Department of Computing Science, University
of Aberdeen, Scotland,
UK. April
2002.
- Invited departmental seminar,
Pattern-Driven Information Extraction. Department
of Computing Science, Brock University, Ontario,
Canada. February
2002.
- Internal KMI seminar, Template-Driven Information Extraction. Knowledge
Media Institute, the Open University, England,
UK. August
2001.
- Invited internal seminar, Combining objects and Fuzzy Logic. IIMAS, National University of Mexico,
Mexico City, Mexico. December 1998.
- Invited internal seminar, Fril++: Object Oriented Programming with Uncertainty.
Artificial Intelligence Department (Software Systems & Processes
Group), Edinburgh University, Scotland,
UK. December
1997.
- Internal seminar, Fril++: Object Oriented Fuzzy Logic Programming Language.
The ACRC (Advanced Computing Research Centre), Bristol
University, England,
UK. December
1996.
- Internal seminar, Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition.
The ACRC (Advanced Computing Research Centre), Bristol
University, England,
UK. December
1995.
- Invited seminar, Using
Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition, CICESE, Ensenada
Mexico, September 1995.
- Internal seminar, Using Prolog Techniques to Guide Program Composition. Artificial Intelligence department, Edinburgh
University, Scotland,
UK. May
1995.
- Internal seminar, A Techniques Editor for Prolog. Artificial
Intelligence department, Edinburgh University,
Scotland, UK.
February 1992.
- Internal seminar, A Copy Structure-Based Prolog Interpreter. IIMAS, National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. January 1988.
FLINK:
Social
Network: Semantic Web.
People (collaborate or
work with):
- Pedro
Miramontes (National University of Mexico). (join supervision of students).
- Emanuela Moreale
(School of Computer
Science and Information Technology, Nottingham
University).
- Miklos Nagy (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England
UK).
- Victoria
Uren (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open
University, England UK).
- Arthur
Stutt (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England
UK).
- John
Domingue (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University).
- Simon
Buckingham Shum (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, England
UK).
- Enrico
Motta (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open
University).
- Gaston
Burek (Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University).
- Jan
Paralic (Technical
University Kosice
Slovakia).
(join supervision of students).
- David Celjuska (Technical
University Kosice
Slovakia).
- Mattia Lanzoni (Knowledge
Media Institute, The Open University).
- Fabio
Ciravegna (Sheffield
University, UK).
- Yannis Kalfoglou (Knowledge
Media Institute, The Open University).
- Eliot
Pen^a (National
University of Mexico).
- James
F. Baldwin (Bristol
University, England
UK).
- T.P.
Martin (Bristol University, England
UK).
- Diana
Bental (Edinburgh
University, Scotland
UK).
- Andy
Bowles (Edinburgh University, Scotland
UK).
- Wamberto Vasconcelos (Edinburgh
University, Scotland
UK).
- Alberto
Castro (Edinburgh
University, Scotland
UK).
- Gabriel
Duncan (Edinburgh
University, Scotland
UK).
- David
Robertson (Edinburgh University, Scotland
UK).
- Robert
Inder (Edinburgh University,
Scotland UK).
- R Carrera (National
University of Mexico).
- Francisco
Cervantes (National University
of Mexico).
Photos at Frida Kahlo House (Mexico
2004):
Maria
and a Mexican friend Maria
Photos from Mexico City and Teotihuacan Mexico :
Independence
Angel Sun
Pyramid
Photos were taken by Emanuela
Moreale
Hobby:
I collect old brooches (Eighteen
Century or later).
Contact Details:
Email: [email protected]