Dr. Francesco Osborne

Research Fellow

I am Research Fellow at the Knowledge Media institute of the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, where I lead the Scholarly Knowledge Mining (SKM) team. My research covers Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, Science of Science, Semantic Web, Research Analytics, and Semantic Publishing. I have authored more than eighty peer-reviewed publications in top journals and conferences in my research areas, including the Semantic Web Journal, ISWC, ESWC, WebConf, JCDL, TPDL, UMAP, Data Science, Data Intelligence, and the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies.

The SKM team aims at producing innovative approaches leveraging large-scale data mining, semantic technologies, machine learning and visual analytics for making sense of scholarly data and forecast research dynamics. We collaborate with a number of commercial organizations (e.g., Springer Nature, Elsevier, Microsoft, Digital Science, Figshare), non-profit organizations, and universities.

More information about the SKM team at http://skm.kmi.open.ac.uk.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, Science of Science, Semantic Web, Research Analytics, Semantic Publishing.

Publications

DessÃ¬, Danilo, Osborne, Francesco, Reforgiato Recupero, Diego, Buscaldi, Davide and Motta, Enrico ,(2021). Generating knowledge graphs by employing Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques within the scholarly domain. Future Generation Computer Systems, 116 pp. 253â264.

DessÃ¬, Danilo, Osborne, Francesco, Reforgiato Recupero, Diego, Buscaldi, Davide, Motta, Enrico and Sack, Harald ,(2020). AI-KG: an Automatically Generated Knowledge Graph of Artificial Intelligence. In: 19th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2020), 2-6 Nov 2020, Athens (Greece) - Virtual.

Salatino, Angelo, Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico ,(2020). ResearchFlow: Understanding the Knowledge Flow between Academia and Industry. In: 22nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2020), 16-20 Sep 2020, Bolzano (Italy) (Online).

Salatino, Angelo, Thanapalasingam, Thiviyan, Mannocci, Andrea, Birukou, Aliaksandr, Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico ,(2020). The Computer Science Ontology: A Comprehensive Automatically-Generated Taxonomy of Research Areas. Data Intelligence, 2(3), pp. 379â416.

Salatino, Angelo, Osborne, Francesco, Birukou, Aliaksandr and Motta, Enrico ,(2019). Improving Editorial Workflow and Metadata Quality at Springer Nature. In: The 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), 26-30 Oct 2019, Auckland, New Zealand.

Salatino, Angelo, Osborne, Francesco, Thanapalasingam, Thiviyan and Motta, Enrico ,(2019). The CSO Classifier: Ontology-Driven Detection of Research Topics in Scholarly Articles. In: TPDL 2019: 23rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, 9-12 Sep 2019, Oslo, Norway.

Mannocci, Andrea, Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico ,(2019). The Evolution of IJHCS and CHI: A Quantitative Analysis. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 131 pp. 23â40.

Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico ,(2018). Pragmatic Ontology Evolution: Reconciling User Requirements and Application Performance. In: 17th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) 2018, 8-12 Oct 2018, Monterey, CA, USA.

Salatino, Angelo A., Thanapalasingam, Thiviyan, Mannocci, Andrea, Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico ,(2018). The Computer Science Ontology: A Large-Scale Taxonomy of Research Areas. In: International Semantic Web Conference 2018, 8-12 Oct 2018, Monterey, California, USA.

Salatino, Angelo A., Osborne, Francesco and Motta, Enrico ,(2018). AUGUR: Forecasting the Emergence of New Research Topics. In: JCDL â18: The 18th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 3-7 Jun 2018, Fort Worth, TX, USA.