Knowledge acquisition is the essential process of extracting and encoding knowledge, both domain specific and commonsense, to be used in intelligent systems. While many large knowledge bases have been constructed, none is close to complete. This paper presents an approach to improving a knowledge base efficiently under resource constraints. Using a guiding knowledge base, questions are generate...

1. ABSTRACT OF THE INVITED TALK Reviewing literature is painful albeit intellectually rewarding. I will describe SUNFLOWER, a system we developed in collaboration with Bloomsbury, a publisher of scientific material , member of Qatar Foundation. SUNFLOWER combines the power of search and collaborative editing to review and summarize a large number of articles around a topic. It works in three st...

Crowd accessibility services for people with disabilities, driven by crowd-sourcing methods, are gaining traction as a viable means of realizing innovative services by leveraging both human and machine intelligence. As the approach matures, researchers and practitioners are seeking to build various types of services. However, many of them encounter similar challenges, such as variations in qual...

The aim of this interactive workshop was for the learning developers participating to be empowered engage with these changes in their own institutions. Much facilitated discussion looked at new approaches development that support education sustainability. It comprised a series mini-presentations case-studies derived from original research into teaching climate change including 35 in-depth inter...

This paper explores trust related issues arising from the use of a crowd-sourcing method. Crowd-sourcing is a relatively new method that utilises modern technologies to gather, analyse and visualise specific “onthe-fly” data. The data is typically acquired through the employment of mobile technology, with each device running a bespoke application that captures the desired information. The resul...