TWINE: Supporting Assessment of Trustworthiness of Web Information Using Linked Data
A research paper by Jarutas Pattanaphanchai, Kieron O’Hara and Wendy Hall on a new tool for assessing the trustworthiness of Web information.
Our Thinking
Links to papers, talks and other publications in the media, highlighting the academic research and thought leadership undertaken by Seme4 founders and staff
Nigel Shadbolt on “The Life Scientific” on BBC Radio 4
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt interviewed by author and Professor of Theoretical Physics Jim al-Khalili on “The Life Scientific” on BBC Radio 4.
Sir Nigel discusses the importance of Open Data, the issue of privacy and working with two UK Prime Ministers.
Socio-technical Computation
A paper by Markus Luczak-Rösch, Ramine Tinati, Kieron O’Hara and Nigel Shadbolt on “Socio-technical Computation:” collaborative problem solving through information sharing. The authors pose the question: Can the accumulated information propagation behaviour on the Web be conceived as a giant machine, and reasoned about accordingly?
AI might be a threat to humans but not for the reasons you think
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt in the Guardian on AI (Artificial Intelligence). He discusses the benefits, dangers and ethics of AI. The future and the responsibilities of researchers in the field of AI are also discussed.
Knowledge Elicitation: Methods, Tools and Techniques
A paper by Nigel Shadbolt and Paul Smart (a chapter in the book “Evaluation of Human Work” edited by J. R. Wilson and S. Sharples, 4th edition), discussing knowledge elicitation (techniques for obtaining knowledge from an expert) for knowledge intensive systems.
Why Won’t Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science
A paper by Markus Luczak-Roesch, Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, Max Van Kleek, Nigel Shadbolt and Robert Simpson describing research into 10 “Citizen Science” projects, in which members of the public are involved in scientific research. The study examined the factors that affect user engagement, the discussions between the citizen scientists and the transference of scientific expertise, with over 50 million activities of 250, 000 users being analysed.
Wendy Hall interviewed in CNET
Professor Dame Wendy Hall discusses the past, present and future of Web Science, data observatories, Open Data and Social Machines in an interview with Aloysius Low of CNET.
Improving on Popularity as a Proxy for Generality When Building Tag Hierarchies from Folksonomies
Designing and building taxonomies (structures for the identification, classification and description of items) for the Web is time consuming and costly. “Folksonomies”, which are created by the website users themselves, have emerged, however, they can be ambiguous and can have an inconsistent structure. This research paper by Fahad Almoqhim, David E. Millard and Nigel Shadbolt, suggests an improved method (based on the Heymann-Benz algorithm).
Motivations of Citizen Scientists – A Quantitative Investigation of Forum Participation
A research paper by Ramine Tinati, Markus Luczak-Roesch, Elena Simperl and Nigel Shadbolt, describing an analysis of the citizen science discussion forum Galaxy Zoo. Citizen
science is a term which describes the enabling of citizens to participate in research using their own personal equipment. The study investigates the characteristics of people who participate in citizen science and the factors that affect participation.
"Web pioneer Dame Wendy Hall on the future of the internet"
Wendy Hall interviewed in the Life and Arts section of the FT. She discusses the multidisciplinary nature of Web Science, personal data, cyber crime and women in IT.