Victoria Uren


2012

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Automatically Extracting Procedural Knowledge from Instructional Texts using Natural Language Processing
Ziqi Zhang | Philip Webster | Victoria Uren | Andrea Varga | Fabio Ciravegna
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)

Procedural knowledge is the knowledge required to perform certain tasks, and forms an important part of expertise. A major source of procedural knowledge is natural language instructions. While these readable instructions have been useful learning resources for human, they are not interpretable by machines. Automatically acquiring procedural knowledge in machine interpretable formats from instructions has become an increasingly popular research topic due to their potential applications in process automation. However, it has been insufficiently addressed. This paper presents an approach and an implemented system to assist users to automatically acquire procedural knowledge in structured forms from instructions. We introduce a generic semantic representation of procedures for analysing instructions, using which natural language techniques are applied to automatically extract structured procedures from instructions. The method is evaluated in three domains to justify the generality of the proposed semantic representation as well as the effectiveness of the implemented automatic system.

2006

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AquaLog: An ontology-driven Question Answering System to interface the Semantic Web
Vanessa Lopez Garcia | Enrico Motta | Victoria Uren
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Demonstrations

2004

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Beyond TREC’s Filtering Track
Nikolaos Nanas | Victoria Uren | Anne de Roeck | John Domingue
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’04)