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Dr Francesco Osborne
Professional biography
I am a Research Associate at the Knowledge Media institute (KMi) of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK. My research focuses on Semantic Web, Semantic Publishing, User Modelling, Data Mining and Human Computer Interaction. Currently, I am working on the Rexplore project and on the MKSmart project.
Publications
Journal articles
User data discovery and aggregation: the CS-UDD algorithm (2014-06)
Carmagnola, Francesca; Osborne, Francesco and Torre, Ilaria
Information Sciences, 270(20) (pp. 41-72)
Escaping the Big Brother: an empirical study on factors influencing identification and information leakage on the Web (2014-04)
Carmagnola, Francesca; Osborne, Francesco and Torre, Ilaria
Journal of Information Science, 40(2) (pp. 180-197)
Anisotropic propagation of user interests in ontology-based user models (2013-11-20)
Cena, Federica; Likavec, Silvia and Osborne, Francesco
Information Sciences, 250 (pp. 40-60)
Exploring research trends with Rexplore (2013-09)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
D-Lib Magazine, 19(9/10)
Carmagnola, Francesca; Osborne, Francesco and Torre, Ilaria
Information Sciences, 270(20) (pp. 41-72)
Escaping the Big Brother: an empirical study on factors influencing identification and information leakage on the Web (2014-04)
Carmagnola, Francesca; Osborne, Francesco and Torre, Ilaria
Journal of Information Science, 40(2) (pp. 180-197)
Anisotropic propagation of user interests in ontology-based user models (2013-11-20)
Cena, Federica; Likavec, Silvia and Osborne, Francesco
Information Sciences, 250 (pp. 40-60)
Exploring research trends with Rexplore (2013-09)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
D-Lib Magazine, 19(9/10)
Conference items
Combining NLP and Semantics for Mining Software Technologies from Research Publications (2016-04-11)
de Ribaupierre, Hélène; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : World Wide Web Conference 2016 (11 April 2016, Montreal, Canada) (pp. 23-24)
It ROCS! The RASH Online Conversion Service (2016-04-11)
Di Iorio, Angelo; Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra; Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio; Poggi, Francesco and Vitali, Fabio
In : World Wide Web Conference 2016 (11 April 2016, Montreal, Canada) (pp. 25-26)
Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors (2016)
Cano Basave, Amparo; Osborne, Francesco and Salatino, Angelo
In : 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) (19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy)
Automatic Classification of Springer Nature Proceedings with Smart Topic Miner (2016)
Osborne, Francesco; Salatino, Angelo; Birukou, Aliaksandr and Motta, Enrico
In : The 15th International Semantic Web Conference (17-21 October 2016, Kobe, Japan) ((Forthcoming))
Smart Topic Miner: Supporting Springer Nature Editors with Semantic Web Technologies (2016)
Osborne, Francesco; Salatino, Angelo; Birukou, Aliaksandr and Motta, Enrico
In : International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016) (17-21 October 2016, Kobe, Japan)
Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors (2016)
Cano Basave, Amparo; Osborne, Francesco and Salatino, Angelo
In : 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) (19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy (forthcoming))
TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications (2016)
Osborne, Francesco; de Ribaupierre, Helene and Motta, Enrico
In : 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) (19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy)
Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networks (2015-10-30)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : 14th International Semantic Web Conference 2015 (11-15 October 2015, Bethlehem, PA) (pp. 408-424)
The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF submissions in scholarly venues (2015-10-11)
Di Iorio, Angelo; Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni ; Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio; Poggi, Francesco; Smith, Michael; Vitali, Fabio and Zhao, Jun
In : 14th International Semantic Web Conferences (ISWC 2015) (11-15 October 2015, Bethlehem, PA)
Rexplore: unveiling the dynamics of scholarly data (2014)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : Digital Libraries 2014 (8-12 September 2014, London, UK )
Identifying diachronic topic-based research communities by clustering shared research trajectories (2014)
Osborne, Francesco; Scavo, Beppe and Motta, Enrico
In : Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC 2014) - Research Track (26-30 May 2014, Montpellier, France)
Understanding research dynamics (2014)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : 11th ESWC 2014 (25-29 May 2014, Limenas Hersonissou, Crete)
Clustering citation distributions for semantic categorization and citation prediction (2014)
Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio and Motta, Enrico
In : I4th Workshop on Linked Science 2014— Making Sense Out of Data (LISC2014) (19-23 October 2014, Riva Del Garda, Trentino, Italy (Forthcoming))
Inferring semantic relations by user feedback (2014)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : EKAW 2014 (24 - 28 November 2014, Linköping, Sweden ) (pp. 339-255)
A hybrid semantic approach to building dynamic maps of research communities (2014)
Osborne, Francesco; Scavo, Giuseppe and Motta, Enrico
In : EKAW 2014 (24-28 November 2014, Linköping, Sweden ) (pp. 356-372)
TellEat: sharing experiences on the move (2014)
Chiabrando, Elisa; Furnari, Roberto; Likavec, Silvia; Osborne, Francesco; Picardi, Claudia and Dupré, Daniele Theseider
In : 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: HCI International 2014 Conference (22-27 June 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece) (pp. 377-388)
Exploring scholarly data with Rexplore. (2013)
Osborne, Francesco; Motta, Enrico and Mulholland, Paul
In : International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) (21-25 October 2013, Sydney, Australia) (pp. 460-477)
Granular semantic user similarity in the presence of sparse data (2013)
Osborne, Francesco; Likavec, Silvia and Cena, Federica
In : AI*IA 2013: XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (4-6 December, 2013, Turin, Italy) (pp. 385-396)
Mining semantic relations between research areas (2012)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) (11-15 November 2012, Boston, MA, USA) (pp. 410-426)
Making sense of research with Rexplore (2012)
Motta, Enrico and Osborne, Francesco
In : International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) (11-15 November 2012, Boston, USA)
Property-based interest propagation in ontology-based user model (2012)
Cena, Frederica; Likavec, Silvia and Osborne, Francesco
In : 20th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization-UMAP 2012 (16-20 July 2012, Montreal, Canada) (pp. 38-50)
Propagating user interests in ontology-based user model (2011)
Cena, Federica; Likavec, Silvia and Osborne, Francesco
In : AI*IA 2011: XIIth Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence "Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond" (15-17 September 2011, Palermo, Italy) (pp. 299-311)
A new approach to social behavior simulation: the mask model (2011)
Osborne, Francesco
In : Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2011) (28 November-01 December 2011, Vancouver, Canada) (pp. 97-108)
User data distributed on the social web: how to identify users on different social systems and collecting data about them (2010)
Carmagnola, Francesca; Osborne, Francesco and Torre, Ilaria
In : International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2010) (26 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain) (pp. 9-15)
de Ribaupierre, Hélène; Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : World Wide Web Conference 2016 (11 April 2016, Montreal, Canada) (pp. 23-24)
It ROCS! The RASH Online Conversion Service (2016-04-11)
Di Iorio, Angelo; Gonzalez-Beltran, Alejandra; Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio; Poggi, Francesco and Vitali, Fabio
In : World Wide Web Conference 2016 (11 April 2016, Montreal, Canada) (pp. 25-26)
Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors (2016)
Cano Basave, Amparo; Osborne, Francesco and Salatino, Angelo
In : 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) (19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy)
Automatic Classification of Springer Nature Proceedings with Smart Topic Miner (2016)
Osborne, Francesco; Salatino, Angelo; Birukou, Aliaksandr and Motta, Enrico
In : The 15th International Semantic Web Conference (17-21 October 2016, Kobe, Japan) ((Forthcoming))
Smart Topic Miner: Supporting Springer Nature Editors with Semantic Web Technologies (2016)
Osborne, Francesco; Salatino, Angelo; Birukou, Aliaksandr and Motta, Enrico
In : International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2016) (17-21 October 2016, Kobe, Japan)
Ontology Forecasting in Scientific Literature: Semantic Concepts Prediction based on Innovation-Adoption Priors (2016)
Cano Basave, Amparo; Osborne, Francesco and Salatino, Angelo
In : 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) (19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy (forthcoming))
TechMiner: Extracting Technologies from Academic Publications (2016)
Osborne, Francesco; de Ribaupierre, Helene and Motta, Enrico
In : 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2016) (19-23 November 2016, Bologna, Italy)
Klink-2: integrating multiple web sources to generate semantic topic networks (2015-10-30)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : 14th International Semantic Web Conference 2015 (11-15 October 2015, Bethlehem, PA) (pp. 408-424)
The RASH Framework: enabling HTML+RDF submissions in scholarly venues (2015-10-11)
Di Iorio, Angelo; Nuzzolese, Andrea Giovanni ; Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio; Poggi, Francesco; Smith, Michael; Vitali, Fabio and Zhao, Jun
In : 14th International Semantic Web Conferences (ISWC 2015) (11-15 October 2015, Bethlehem, PA)
Rexplore: unveiling the dynamics of scholarly data (2014)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : Digital Libraries 2014 (8-12 September 2014, London, UK )
Identifying diachronic topic-based research communities by clustering shared research trajectories (2014)
Osborne, Francesco; Scavo, Beppe and Motta, Enrico
In : Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 (ESWC 2014) - Research Track (26-30 May 2014, Montpellier, France)
Understanding research dynamics (2014)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : 11th ESWC 2014 (25-29 May 2014, Limenas Hersonissou, Crete)
Clustering citation distributions for semantic categorization and citation prediction (2014)
Osborne, Francesco; Peroni, Silvio and Motta, Enrico
In : I4th Workshop on Linked Science 2014— Making Sense Out of Data (LISC2014) (19-23 October 2014, Riva Del Garda, Trentino, Italy (Forthcoming))
Inferring semantic relations by user feedback (2014)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : EKAW 2014 (24 - 28 November 2014, Linköping, Sweden ) (pp. 339-255)
A hybrid semantic approach to building dynamic maps of research communities (2014)
Osborne, Francesco; Scavo, Giuseppe and Motta, Enrico
In : EKAW 2014 (24-28 November 2014, Linköping, Sweden ) (pp. 356-372)
TellEat: sharing experiences on the move (2014)
Chiabrando, Elisa; Furnari, Roberto; Likavec, Silvia; Osborne, Francesco; Picardi, Claudia and Dupré, Daniele Theseider
In : 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: HCI International 2014 Conference (22-27 June 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece) (pp. 377-388)
Exploring scholarly data with Rexplore. (2013)
Osborne, Francesco; Motta, Enrico and Mulholland, Paul
In : International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2013) (21-25 October 2013, Sydney, Australia) (pp. 460-477)
Granular semantic user similarity in the presence of sparse data (2013)
Osborne, Francesco; Likavec, Silvia and Cena, Federica
In : AI*IA 2013: XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (4-6 December, 2013, Turin, Italy) (pp. 385-396)
Mining semantic relations between research areas (2012)
Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico
In : 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) (11-15 November 2012, Boston, MA, USA) (pp. 410-426)
Making sense of research with Rexplore (2012)
Motta, Enrico and Osborne, Francesco
In : International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) (11-15 November 2012, Boston, USA)
Property-based interest propagation in ontology-based user model (2012)
Cena, Frederica; Likavec, Silvia and Osborne, Francesco
In : 20th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization-UMAP 2012 (16-20 July 2012, Montreal, Canada) (pp. 38-50)
Propagating user interests in ontology-based user model (2011)
Cena, Federica; Likavec, Silvia and Osborne, Francesco
In : AI*IA 2011: XIIth Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence "Artificial Intelligence Around Man and Beyond" (15-17 September 2011, Palermo, Italy) (pp. 299-311)
A new approach to social behavior simulation: the mask model (2011)
Osborne, Francesco
In : Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS 2011) (28 November-01 December 2011, Vancouver, Canada) (pp. 97-108)
User data distributed on the social web: how to identify users on different social systems and collecting data about them (2010)
Carmagnola, Francesca; Osborne, Francesco and Torre, Ilaria
In : International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems (HetRec 2010) (26 September 2010, Barcelona, Spain) (pp. 9-15)
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