Programme

We had a great UKON meeting. We thank all speakers and participants, and look forward to next year's meeting.

Please click here to access Allyson Lister's live UKON posts. 

The programme:

9:20-9:30 WELCOME and INTRODUCTION, Phillip Lord (Newcastle)
  

SESSION I

Chaired by Phillip Lord
9:30-9:45  Dan Gordon (Great North Museum: Hancock) - Talk
9:45-10:00 Short Talks
   George Demetriou (Manchester), Warren Read (Unilever), Noel Ruddock (Unilever), Martyn Fletcher (York), Goran Nenadic (Manchester), Tom Jackson (York), Robert Stevens (Manchester) and Jerry Winter (Unilever)
Integrating literature mining and curation for ontology-driven knowledge discovery - Talk, Abstract
   Chris Smith and Alex Newsham (Leeds)
Integrating Concept Dynamism Into Longitudinal Analysis Of Electronic Health Records - Abstract
   Mirko Michele Dimartino (London), Vania Dimitrova (Leeds) and Alexandra Poulovassilis (London)
INSPIRE: An Ontological Approach to Augment Careers Guidance - Talk, Abstract
10:00-10:15 Alan Bundy and Ewen Maclean (Edinburgh)
The Use of Reformation to Repair Faulty Analogical Blends - Talk, Abstract
10:15-10:30  Short Talks
   Terry Payne and Valentina Tamma (Liverpool)
Dialogues for finding Correspondences between partially disclosed Ontologies - Talk, Abstract
   Gabrielle Santos, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne and Floriana Grasso (Liverpool) - Talk, Abstract
Dialogue Based Meaning Negotiation
   Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro (Manchester), Julie Klein (INSERM) and Robert Stevens (Manchester)
The Cardiovascular Disease Ontology (CVDO) - Talk, ‌Abstract
10:30-10:45  Alexander Carruth (Durham)
Modelling Dispositions - Talk, ‌Abstract
10:45-11:15  COFFEE BREAK 
  

SESSION II

Chaired by Jennifer Warrender
11:15-11:30  Short Talks 
   Colin Puleston (Manchester)
Ontology-Driven Applications with MEKON and HOBO - Talk, Abstract
   Goksel Misirli, James McLaughlin, Matthew Pocock and Anil Wipat (Newcastle)
The Synthetic Biology Open Language - Talk, Abstract
   Matthew Pocock, Chris Taylor, James Alastair McLaughlin and Anil Wipat (Newcastle)
ConSBOL: A terminology for biopolymer design
11:30-11:45  Paul Warren (Knowledge Media Institute, OU)
Making sense of Description Logics - Talk, Abstract
11:45-12:00  Short Talks
   Viachaslau Sazonau and Uli Sattler (Manchester)
Mining informative OWL axioms with DL-Miner - Talk, Abstract
   Michael Lee, Bijan Parsia and Uli Sattler (Manchester)
Justification and Reasoner Verification Talk, Abstract
   Tie Hou (Brighton), Peter Chapman (Edinburgh Napier University) and Andrew Blake (Brighton)
Antipattern Comprehension: An Empirical Evaluation - TalkAbstract
12:00-12:15  Markel Vigo, Nicolas Matentzoglu, Caroline Jay and Robert Stevens (Manchester)
The Workflows of Ontology Authoring: Controlled vs Naturalistic Settings - Talk, Abstract
12:15-12:30  Short Talks 
   Manuel Quesada-Martínez (Murcia), Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis (Murcia), Robert Stevens (Manchester), Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT CNRS) and Daniel Karlsson (Linköping)
The OntoEnrich platform: using workflows for quality assurance and axiomatic enrichment of ontologies - Talk, Abstract
   Szymon Klarman (Brunel), Larisa Soldatova (Brunel), Robert Stevens (Manchester) and Ross King (Manchester)
Probabilistic Annotation Framework: Knowledge Assembly at Scale with Semantic and Probabilistic Techniques Talk, Abstract
   Pier Luigi Buttigieg (Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung)
The growing scope of environmental ontology Talk, Abstract
12:30-13:30  LUNCH 
  

SESSION III

Chaired by Goksel Misirli
13:30-13:45 Miriam Dowle (The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) - Talk
13:45-14:00 Short Talks
   Phillip Lord (Newcastle)
What's in a name: identifiers in ontologies, Abstract
   Simon Jupp, Tony Burdett, Catherine Leroy, Thomas Liener, Olga Vrousgou and Helen Parkinson (European Bioinformatics Institute)
A New Ontology Lookup Service at EMBL-EBI - Talk, Abstract
   Mercedes Arguello Casteleiro, Julie Klein and Robert Stevens (Manchester)
An ontology-supported approach to predict automatically the proteases involved in the generation of peptides - Talk, Abstract
 14:00-14:15 Albert Burger (Heriot-Watt), Kenneth McLeod (Heriot-Watt), Chris Armit (Edinburgh), Bill Hill (Edinburgh) and Richard Baldock (Edinburgh)
The Straightened Mouse: translating spatial relations between ontologies and geometric models - Talk, Abstract
14:15-14:30 Short Talks
   Joseph Mullen, Anil Wipat and Simon Cockell (Newcastle)
DReNIn_O: An application ontology for drug repositioning - Talk, Abstract
   Maria Herrero-Zazo (King's College London), Isabel Segura-Bedmar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Paloma Martínez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Pharmacological Data Integration for Drug-Drug Interactions: Recent Developments and Future Challenges - Talk, Abstract
   Jennifer Warrender and Phillip Lord (Newcastle)
Exploring modelling choices: using non-functional characteristics to test an ontology add-on - Talk, Abstract
14:30-15:00 POSTERS AND DEMOS
15:00-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
  

SESSION IV

Chaired by James Malone
15:30-15:45 Saisakul Chernbumroong, Heshan Du, Derek Magee, Vania Dimitrova and Anthony Cohn (Leeds)
Assessing the Underworld Ontology for Integrated Inter-asset Management, Abstract
15:45-16:00 Short Talks
   Aisha Blfgeh, Catharien Hilkens and Phillip Lord (Newcastle)
A workflow of developing biological ontologies using document approach - Talk, ‌Abstract
   Paolo Pareti (Edinburgh)
A Semantic Web of Human Tasks, Instructions and Activities - Talk, Abstract
   Yiannis Gatsoulis, Owais Mehmood, Vania Dimitrova and Anthony G. Cohn (Leeds)
Combining Ontologies and Machine Learning to Capture Tacit Knowledge in Complex Decision Making - Talk, Abstract 
16:00-16:15 Marwan Al-Tawil (Leeds), Vania Dimitrova (Leeds), Dhaval Thakker (Bradford) and Brandon Bennett (Leeds)
Identifying Basic Level Entities in a Data Graph - Talk, Abstract
16:15-16:30 Short Talks
   Mohammad Alqahtani and Eric Atwell (Leeds)
Aligning and Merging Ontology in Al-Quran Domain
   Patricia Charlton (London)
A formal ontological model of creativity for supporting and sharing creative insights of ‘digital living artifacts’ - Talk, Abstract
   Allyson Lister, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Eamonn Maguire, Peter McQuilton, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Milo Thurston and Susanna-Assunta Sansone (Oxford)
The BioSharing Registry: connecting data standards, policies and databases in the life sciences - Talk, Abstract
16:30-16:40 CLOSING REMARKS, James Malone

 

POSTERs

Tie Hou (Brighton), Peter Chapman (Edinburgh Napier University) and Andrew Blake (Brighton)
Antipattern Comprehension: An Empirical Evaluation
Joseph Mullen, Anil Wipat and Simon Cockell (Newcastle)
DReNIn_O: An application ontology for drug repositioning
Gabrielle Santos, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne and Floriana Grasso (Liverpool)
Dialogue Based Meaning Negotiation
Venkatesh Muthukrishnan, Christoph Steinbeck (EBI)
ChEBI for systems biology and metabolic modelling
Jiakang Chang, Christoph Steinbeck (EBI)
Development of the eNanoMapper ontology and usability within the nano safety domain
Maria Herrero-Zazo (King's College London), Isabel Segura-Bedmar (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Paloma Martínez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Pharmacological Data Integration for Drug-Drug Interactions: Recent Developments and Future Challenges

DEMOs

Colin Puleston (Manchester)
Ontology-Driven Applications with MEKON and HOBO
Viachaslau Sazonau and Uli Sattler (Manchester)
Mining informative OWL axioms with DL-Miner
Manuel Quesada-Martínez (Murcia), Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis (Murcia), Robert Stevens (Manchester), Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles (IRIT CNRS) and Daniel Karlsson (Linköping)
The OntoEnrich platform: using workflows for quality assurance and axiomatic enrichment of ontologies