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most citedAn Experiment in Retrofitting Competency Questions for Existing Ontologies

17 citations · 17 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2026

Knowledge Graph Re-engineering Along the Ontological Continuum (extended version)

Enrico Daga, Valentina Tamma, Terry Payne

Knowledge graphs have become the primary vehicle for data integration and are critical to the success of modern AI, but the diversity of KG modelling practices, from lightweight vo…

cs.AI2026

Discoverable Agent Knowledge -- A Formal Framework for Agentic KG Affordances (Extended Version)

Terry R. Payne, Valentina Tamma, Enrico Daga

Two decades ago, the Semantic Web Services community was asked how agents with different ontological commitments could discover, compose, and invoke web services coherently. The re…

cs.AI2026

Characterising LLM-Generated Competency Questions: a Cross-Domain Empirical Study using Open and Closed Models

Reham Alharbi, Valentina Tamma, Terry R. Payne +1

Competency Questions (CQs) are a cornerstone of requirement elicitation in ontology engineering. CQs represent requirements as a set of natural language questions that an ontology…

cs.AI2026

The AnIML Ontology: Enabling Semantic Interoperability for Large-Scale Experimental Data in Interconnected Scientific Labs

Wilf Morlidge, Elliott Watkiss-Leek, George Hannah +7

Achieving semantic interoperability across heterogeneous experimental data systems remains a major barrier to data-driven scientific discovery. The Analytical Information Markup La…

cs.AI2026

IDEA2: Expert-in-the-loop competency question elicitation for collaborative ontology engineering

Elliott Watkiss-Leek, Reham Alharbi, Harry Rostron +6

Competency question (CQ) elicitation represents a critical but resource-intensive bottleneck in ontology engineering. This foundational phase is often hampered by the communication…

cs.AI2025

RELRaE: LLM-Based Relationship Extraction, Labelling, Refinement, and Evaluation

George Hannah, Jacopo de Berardinis, Terry R. Payne +7

A large volume of XML data is produced in experiments carried out by robots in laboratories. In order to support the interoperability of data between labs, there is a motivation to…

cs.CL2025

A Comparative Study of Competency Question Elicitation Methods from Ontology Requirements

Reham Alharbi, Valentina Tamma, Terry R. Payne +1

Competency Questions (CQs) are pivotal in knowledge engineering, guiding the design, validation, and testing of ontologies. A number of diverse formulation approaches have been pro…

cs.CL2025

Evaluating the Fitness of Ontologies for the Task of Question Generation

Samah Alkhuzaey, Floriana Grasso, Terry R. Payne +1

Ontology-based question generation is an important application of semantic-aware systems that enables the creation of large question banks for diverse learning environments. The ef…

cs.CL2025

Spatio-Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Infant Language Acquisition Prediction

Andrew Roxburgh, Floriana Grasso, Terry R. Payne

Predicting the words that a child is going to learn next can be useful for boosting language acquisition, and such predictions have been shown to be possible with both neural netwo…

cs.AI2023★ 17 cited

An Experiment in Retrofitting Competency Questions for Existing Ontologies

Reham Alharbi, Valentina Tamma, Floriana Grasso +1

Competency Questions (CQs) are a form of ontology functional requirements expressed as natural language questions. Inspecting CQs together with the axioms in an ontology provides c…