Event Archive

Abstract: Linked Programs are designed for the declarative specification of applications based on web-accessible APIs to data and functionality. Linked-Data-Fu provides a general-purpose engine that allows to perform Linked Programs (describing interactions with web resources) combining data integration, communication and interaction, reasoning and query processing.  Linked Data-Fu executes such specifications by orders...

Magnetic properties of SrFe1-xCoxO3-y (x= 0.75 ; 0.5) upon oxidation and reduction in relation with a heterogeneous distribution of oxidation states  

Presentations by Computing Science postgraduates about their research.

Abstract: In this talk I will, firstly, review the state of the art of Referring Expressions Generation, viewed as computational models of human reference production. I will ask how successful existing algorithms are from this theoretical perspective, and discuss some recent improvements, for instance relating to the modelling of variation between...

Abstract:  Factor-based reasoning provides an established approach to reasoning with legal cases.  Factors are stereotypical patterns of facts that are sufficiently abstract to apply to a number of cases and within a body of case law factors favour a particular side, plaintiff or defendant.  In this talk I will report...

In this mini-workshop, students and faculty at the University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh will present their research projects on topics in law and computing. Initial list of presenters and topics. Ruta Liepina.  Arguing about evidence in law.  Law School, University of Aberdeen. Jesus Niebla.  Copyright enforcement and AI: an automated approach....

Abstract: Belief revision is concerned with incorporating new information into a pre-existing set of beliefs. When the new information comes from another agent, we must first determine if that agent should be trusted. In this talk, we define trust as a pre-processing step before revision. We emphasise that trust in an...

At this meeting, we will discuss the Computing Science Seminar.  Topics: What role could it/should it play in the life of the department? Suggestions for improvement, change, development? How can Lecturers, ..., Professors contribute? How can Post-docs and Post-grads contribute? How can Undergrads contribute? Invitations for seminars? Ideas for 'mini-workshops'? What is the state of the budget? Time/place?  Receptions? Other? Everyone...

Abstract: Retrieval system effectiveness can be measured in two quite different ways: by monitoring the behaviour of users and gathering data about the ease and accuracy with which they accomplish certain specified information-seeking tasks; or by using numeric effectiveness metrics to score system runs in reference to a set of relevance...

Abstract: Named Entity Resolution (NER) is an information extraction task that involves detecting mentions of named entities (e.g. people, organisations or locations) within texts and mapping them to their corresponding entities in a given knowledge source. Systems and frameworks for performing NER have been developed both by the academia and...