Research

The group participates in a large number of research projects which stretch throughout the many fields of Web Intelligence. In addition to the industrially funded projects, our Ph.D. students conduct their own, independant research. (For more information on this, please refer to their home-pages.)

This page outlines our research projects and publications.

Current Projects

X-Media

IP project started in March 2006. X-Media is coordinated by our group. With a budget topping €13m, it is one of the largest projects funded in the area of IST knowledge and content technologies within Framework 6 of the European Union.

WeKnowIt

The main objective of WeKnowIt is to develop novel techniques for exploiting multiple layers of intelligence from user-contributed content, which together constitute Collective Intelligence, a form of intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition among many individuals, and that seemingly has a mind of its own.

Archaeotools

Archaeotools is a two year project to be cooperated between the University of Sheffield and the Archaeology Data Service, aimed at building an e-archaeology application to allow archaeologists to discover, share, and analyse datasets and legacy publications which have hitherto been very difficult to integrate into existing digital frameworks.

Cilla

Kodak have funded Cilla, a project to investigate and devise systems that enable users to retrieve personal and immediate community images using search and browse functionalities based on captured knowledge of the image content. A prerequisite to these activities is an understanding of the image, knowledge of the user, name, relations etc, and a method by which the user’s desire can be represented for search and ordering activities.

IPAS

IPAS is a project on Distributed Products and Services funded by the DTI and coordinated by Rolls Royce . Participants are Rolls Royce, the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, Aberdeen and Southampton; Abiuri and Epistemics.

Lycos

Lycos have funded a project to investigate the current market for knowledge sharing platforms. Out research focuses on the integration of semantic technologies with the management of user generated knowledge, which will in turn generate new features and ideas for user generated knowledge management.

MultiMatch

On the web, cultural heritage content is everywhere, in traditional environments such as libraries, museums, galleries and audiovisual archives, but also in popular magazines and newspapers, in multiple languages and multiple media. The aim of the MultiMATCH project is to enable users to explore and interact with online accessible cultural heritage content, across media types and languages boundaries.