Research
This Industrial CASE research project is the result of a new
collaboration
between the University of Stirling, the MIT Media Laboratory and Sitekit Labs.
The main aim of the project is to further develop and apply software
agent and natural language processing based technologies in order to
blend the Open Mind database with any given ontology, and hence build a
novel intelligent software 
engine that can
auto-categorize or auto-tag documents. The developed software engine
will enable the development of future semantic web applications whose
design and content can dynamically adapt to the user. The primary
researcher is Erik Cambria, working under the principal academic
supervision of Dr. Amir Hussain, reader at Stirling Department of
Computing Science & Maths, and with industrial supervision of Chris
Eckl, research director at Sitekit Labs. The research is in
collaboration with Dr. Catherine Havasi of MIT Media Lab who was part of
the research team that pioneered the Common Sense Computing Initiative,
which will be further developed as part of the project in the context of
semantic web mining. Besides document classification, the research work
aims to develop intelligent web applications in fields such as
e-health,
software agents, e-games, customer care, e-learning and e-tourism.
To
this end, the research is currently carried out in the areas of:
