Open exploration

An Open Toolkit for Reverse Engineering Data Visualisation and Exploration

Maintenance and evolution of complex software systems (such as mobile telephones) involves activities such as reverse engineering (RE) and software visualisation. The RE conceptual framework for describing software understanding and concept abstraction is implemented up to different degrees by several RE tools. We found the architecture of most such tools hard to adapt to the domain specific re...

Open Mashup Platform - A Smart Data Exploration Environment

The number of applications designed around Linked Open Data (LOD) has expanded rapidly in recent years. However, these applications typically do not make use of the vast amounts of LOD datasets, but only provide access to predefined, domain-specific subsets. Exceptions that do allow for more flexible exploration of LOD are not targeted at end users, which excludes users who have limited experie...

Assessing Effective Exploration in Open Learning Environments Using Bayesian Networks

Extracting Temporal Information from Open Domain Text: A Comparative Exploration

The utility of data-driven techniques in the end-to-end problem of temporal information extraction is unclear. Recognition of temporal expressions yields readily to machine learning, but normalization seems to call for a rule-based approach. We explore two aspects of the (potential) utility of data-driven methods in the temporal information extraction task. First, we look at whether improving r...

Linked Widgets Platform: Lowering the Barrier for Open Data Exploration

Despite a drastic increase in available Open and Linked Data, unmediated utilization of these data by end users is still relatively uncommon. Applications built on top of Open Data are typically domainspecific and discovering appropriate solutions that fit users’ rapidly shifting needs is a cumbersome process. In line with the Linked Data paradigm, end user tools should be based on openness, fo...