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Projects
- Matrex's Web Site
- MaTREx Making Tacit Knowledge in Requirements Explicit
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 The MaTREx project is investigating techniques for analysing natural language
requirements, in order to discover, manage, and mitigate the negative effects
of tacit knowledge in requirements. Tacit knowledge is knowledge that we know
we have but can't articulate, or knowledge that we don't know that we have but
nevertheless use. We rely on tacit knowledge to communicate effectively:
we need not make every assumption we hold explicit, allowing us to focus on the
essence of what we wish to communicate.
The MaTRex Project is a collaboration between the Computing Departments
of Lancaster University and The Open University.)
and ranked top of EPSRC .
- OntoLancs's Web Site
- Ensemble Methods for Ontology Learning
- OntoLancs is a new framework for ontology learning.
OntoLancs, was created for investigating how best to combine individual techniques
as ensembles. OntoLancs provides a protocol that enables NLP techniques to be treated
as plug-ins. Once integrated, different techniques can be combined using a simple
language. OntoLancs also provides support for organizing the discovered concepts
into a domain ontology and encoded using the OWL ontology language.
If a domain ontology already exists, the results of applying NLP techniques can
be compared against it and the techniques performance can be benchmarked.
We are using this feature to evaluate the relative performance of different ensembles
of NLP techniques in order to guide their application in analysis problems.
(PhD Thesis - 2006/2008).
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