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Past Projects

  1. Automatic Interpretation of Log Files
  2. Automatic Interpretation of Log Files
  3. Graph of Relations
  4. MTLD: Interpreting Medical Tables as Linked Data
  5. SemNews
  6. Swoogle
  7. Tables to Linked Data
  8. UMBC OntoMapper: A Tool For Mapping Between Two Ontologies

Publications

2024

  1. H. Oh, B. (. Kulvatunyou, A. Jones, and T. Finin, "Employing Word-Embedding for Schema Matching in Standard Lifecycle Management", Article, Journal of Industrial Information Integration, March 2024, 1868 downloads.

2023

  1. V. S. Kumar, V. Mulwad, J. W. Williams, T. Finin, S. Dixit, and A. Joshi, "Knowledge Graph-driven Tabular Data Discovery from Scientific Documents", InProceedings, VLDB 2023 Workshop on Tabular Data Analysis, September 2023, 1889 downloads.
  2. V. Mulwad, V. S. Kumar, J. W. Williams, T. Finin, S. Dixit, and A. Joshi, "Towards Semantic Exploration of Tables in Scientific Documents", InProceedings, Workshop on Semantic Technologies for Scientific, Technical and Legal Data, Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 2023, 1497 downloads.
  3. K. Roy, M. Gaur, M. Soltani, V. Rawte, and A. Sheth, "ProKnow: Process knowledge for safety constrained and explainable question generation for mental health diagnostic assistance", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, January 2023, 434 downloads.

2022

  1. V. Rawte, K. Roy, M. Chakraborty, M. Gaur, K. Faldu, P. Kikani, H. Akbari, and A. Sheth, "TDLR: Top (Semantic)-Down (Syntactic) Language Representation", InProceedings, Attention Workshop, 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), November 2022, 486 downloads.

2021

  1. N. Pillai, C. Matuszek, and F. Ferraro, "Neural Variational Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition", InProceedings, IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), August 2021, 584 downloads.

2020

  1. S. N. Narayanan, A. Joshi, and R. Bose, "ABATe: Automatic Behavioral Abstraction Technique to Detect Anomalies in Smart Cyber-Physical Systems", InProceedings, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, October 2020, 1623 downloads.

2019

  1. A. Padia, "Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2019, 697 downloads.
  2. A. Padia, "Joint Models to Refine Knowledge Graphs", PhdThesis, October 2019, 1397 downloads.
  3. A. S. White, E. Stengel-Eskin, S. Vashishtha, V. Govindarajan, D. Reisinger, T. Vieira, K. Sakaguchi, S. Zhang, F. Ferraro, R. Rudinger, K. Rawlins, and B. Van Durme, "The Universal Decompositional Semantics Dataset and Decomp Toolkit", Article, arXiv:1909.13851 [cs.CL], September 2019, 839 downloads.
  4. N. Pillai, F. Ferraro, and C. Matuszek, "Deep Learning for Category-Free Grounded Language Acquisition", NAACL Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics, June 2019, 670 downloads.

2018

  1. A. Padia, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "SURFACE: Semantically Rich Fact Validation with Explanations", InCollection, arXiv, November 2018, 1045 downloads.
  2. M. M. Rahman and T. Finin, "Understanding and representing the semantics of large structured documents", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Deep Learning (SemDeep-4, ISWC), October 2018, 1322 downloads, 27 citations.

2017

  1. F. Ferraro, A. Poliak, R. Cotterell, and B. Van Durme, "Frame-Based Continuous Lexical Semantics through Exponential Family Tensor Factorization and Semantic Proto-Roles", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), August 2017, 928 downloads.
  2. A. L. Kashyap, "Deep Representation of Lyrical Style and Semantics for Music Recommendation", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2017, 700 downloads.

2016

  1. P. Nimbalkar, V. Mulwad, N. Puranik, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Semantic Interpretation of Structured Log Files", InProceedings, 17th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, July 2016, 1646 downloads.
  2. F. Ferraro and B. Van Durme, "A Unified Bayesian Model of Scripts, Frames and Language.", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2016, 923 downloads.

2015

  1. Z. Syed, L. Han, M. M. Rahman, T. Finin, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "Querying Large Linked Data Resources", InProceedings, 14th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2015, 1559 downloads.
  2. C. Grasso, A. Joshi, and E. Siegel, "Beyond NER: Towards Semantics in Clinical Text", InProceedings, Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration (BDM2I); co-located with the 14th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2015), Bethlehem, PA (USA), October 2015, 1398 downloads.
  3. P. Nimbalkar, "Semantic Interpretation of Structured Log Files", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2015, 1499 downloads.
  4. L. Han, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and D. Cheng, "Querying RDF Data with Text Annotated Graphs", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, June 2015, 3191 downloads.
  5. A. A. Krisnadhi, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, M. Cheatham, T. Finin, P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, T. Narock, L. Raymond, and P. Wiebe, "Ontology Pattern Modeling for Cross-Repository Data Integration in the Ocean Sciences: The Oceanographic Cruise Example", InBook, The Semantic Web in Earth and Space Science: Current Status and Future Directions, June 2015, 1744 downloads.
  6. Z. Syed, L. Han, M. M. Rahman, T. Finin, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "UMBC_Ebiquity-SFQ: Schema Free Querying System", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Semantic Web Evaluation Challenge, ESWC, June 2015, 1547 downloads.
  7. V. Mulwad, "TABEL - A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, January 2015, 3233 downloads.

2014

  1. R. Yus, P. Pappachan, P. K. Das, T. Finin, A. Joshi, and E. Mena, "Semantics for Privacy and Shared Context", InProceedings, Second International Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology, October 2014, 1661 downloads.
  2. A. L. Kashyap, L. Han, R. Yus, J. Sleeman, T. W. Satyapanich, S. R. Gandhi, and T. Finin, "Meerkat Mafia: Multilingual and Cross-Level Semantic Textual Similarity systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2014), August 2014, 5032 downloads.
  3. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Interpreting Medical Tables as Linked Data to Generate Meta-Analysis Reports", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, August 2014, 1674 downloads.
  4. L. Han, "Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2014, 1932 downloads.
  5. A. A. Krisnadhi, R. Arko, S. Carbotte, C. Chandler, M. Cheatham, T. Finin, P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, T. Narock, L. Raymond, A. Shepherd, and P. Wiebe, "An Ontology Pattern for Oceanograhic Cruises: Towards an Oceanograhper's Dream of Integrated Knowledge Discovery", TechReport, June 2014, 1237 downloads.

2013

  1. J. Lee, K. Jung, B. Kim, Y. Peng, and H. Cho, "Semantic web-based supplier discovery system for building a long-term supply chain", Article, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, November 2013.
  2. D. Lawrie, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and P. McNamee, "Comparing and Evaluating Semantic Data Automatically Extracted from Text,", InProceedings, AAAI 2013 Fall Symposium on Semantics for Big Data, November 2013, 1535 downloads.
  3. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Semantic Message Passing for Generating Linked Data from Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference, October 2013, 2678 downloads.
  4. Y. Peng and Y. Kang, "Ontology-Based Dynamic Forms for Manufacturing Capability Information Collection", InProceedings, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, September 2013.
  5. L. Han, A. L. Kashyap, T. Finin, J. Mayfield, and J. Weese, "UMBC_EBIQUITY-CORE: Semantic Textual Similarity Systems", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics, June 2013, 4271 downloads.
  6. L. Han, T. Finin, P. McNamee, A. Joshi, and Y. Yesha, "Improving Word Similarity by Augmenting PMI with Estimates of Word Polysemy", Article, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), June 2013, 3330 downloads.

2012

  1. G. Berg-Cross, I. Cruz, M. Dean, T. Finin, and e., "Semantics and Ontologies For EarthCube", Proceedings, Workshop on GIScience in the Big Data Age, 7th Int. Conf. on Geographic Information Science, September 2012, 1310 downloads.
  2. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "A Domain Independent Framework for Extracting Linked Semantic Data from Tables", InCollection, Search Computing - Broadening Web Search, July 2012, 2207 downloads.
  3. P. Hitzler, K. Janowicz, G. Berg-Cross, L. Obrst, A. Sheth, T. Finin, and I. Cruz, "Semantic Aspects of EarthCube", TechReport, May 2012, 1131 downloads.
  4. K. P. Joshi, Y. Yesha, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Policy based Cloud Services on a VCL platform", InProceedings, Proceedings of the first International IBM Cloud Academy Conference (ICA CON 2012), April 2012, 3467 downloads.
  5. A. Joshi, T. Finin, K. P. Joshi, and M. Oberoi, "A Policy Driven Semantic Approach to Data Usage Management", InProceedings, Data Usage Management on the Web Workshop in conjunction with WWW 2012, April 2012, 1885 downloads.
  6. L. Han, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "GoRelations: Towards an Intuitive Query System for RDF Data", TechReport, TR-CS-11-08, February 2012, 1776 downloads, 20 citations.

2011

  1. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Automatically Generating Government Linked Data from Tables", InCollection, Working notes of AAAI Fall Symposium on Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges, November 2011, 3871 downloads.
  2. V. Mulwad, "DC Proposal: Graphical Models and Probabilistic Reasoning for Generating Linked Data from Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of Tenth International Semantic Web Conference, Part II, October 2011, 3114 downloads.
  3. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Generating Linked Data by Inferring the Semantics of Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Searching and Integrating New Web Data Sources, September 2011, 4033 downloads.
  4. A. Mahale, "Group Centric Information Sharing using Hierarchical Models", MastersThesis, UMBC, May 2011, 1921 downloads.
  5. A. Gupta, K. Viswanathan, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and P. Kumaraguru, "Integrating Linked Open Data with Unstructured Text for Intelligence Gathering Tasks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Information Integration on the Web, March 2011, 2179 downloads.
  6. P. A. Kodeswaran, S. B. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks", Article, Computer Standards and Interfaces, January 2011, 2342 downloads, 1 citation.

2010

  1. P. A. Kodeswaran and E. Viegas, "Towards a privacy preserving policy based infrastructure for social data access to enable scientific research", InProceedings, Eighth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, August 2010, 380 downloads.
  2. P. A. Kodeswaran and E. Viegas, "A Policy Based Infrastructure for Social Data Access with Privacy Guarantees", InProceedings, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks, July 2010, 5981 downloads, 6 citations.

2008

  1. L. Han, T. Finin, C. Parr, J. Sachs, and A. Joshi, "RDF123: from Spreadsheets to RDF", InProceedings, Seventh International Semantic Web Conference, October 2008, 7777 downloads, 26 citations.
  2. S. Gupta, "Trust-based Data Management in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", MastersThesis, University of Maryland at Baltimore County, July 2008, 2163 downloads.
  3. S. Gupta, A. Joshi, and A. Patwardhan, "Query Distribution Estimation and Predictive Caching in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Seventh International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access, June 2008, 3068 downloads, 1 citation.
  4. P. A. Kodeswaran, S. B. Kodeswaran, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Enforcing security in semantics driven policy based networks", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, Secure Semantic Web, April 2008, 2867 downloads.

2007

  1. S. B. Kodeswaran, O. V. Ratsimor, F. Perich, and A. Joshi, "Utilizing Semantic Tags for Policy Based Networking", InProceedings, IEEE Globecom 2007 Internet Protocol Symposium, November 2007, 3181 downloads, 6 citations.
  2. A. Java, S. Nirenburg, M. McShane, T. Finin, J. English, and A. Joshi, "Using a Natural Language Understanding System to Generate Semantic Web Content", Article, International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, November 2007, 4606 downloads, 89 citations.
  3. C. Parr, J. Sachs, L. Han, T. Wang, and T. Finin, "RDF123 and Spotter: Tools for generating OWL and RDF for biodiversity data in spreadsheets and unstructured text", InProceedings, Proceedings of Biodiversity Information Standards Annual Conference (TDWG 2007), October 2007, 2694 downloads, 3 citations.
  4. L. Han, C. Parr, J. Sachs, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "RDF123: a mechanism to transform spreadsheets to RDF", TechReport, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2007, 9906 downloads, 9 citations.
  5. A. Parafiynyk, C. Parr, J. Sachs, and T. Finin, "Adding Semantics to Social Websites for Citizen Science", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic e-Science (AAAI 07), June 2007, 6761 downloads, 3 citations.
  6. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", Article, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, April 2007, 3228 downloads.

2006

  1. T. Finin, L. Ding, and A. Joshi, "Information Integration and the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Notes from the Information Integration Workshop, October 2006, 7145 downloads, 2 citations.
  2. A. Java, S. Nirenburg, M. McShane, T. Finin, J. English, and A. Joshi, "Using a Natural Language Understanding System to Generate Semantic Web Content", TechReport, October 2006, 3416 downloads.

2005

  1. Z. Ding, "BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Semantic Web", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2005, 9928 downloads, 10 citations.
  2. S. Ganjugunte, "Extending the Non-monotonic Reasoning Infrastructure for the Semantic Web via Well-founded Negation and incremental Support for Courteous Logic Programs,", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2005, 3499 downloads.
  3. T. Finin, L. Ding, R. Pan, A. Joshi, P. Kolari, A. Java, and Y. Peng, "Swoogle: Searching for knowledge on the Semantic Web", InProceedings, AAAI 05 (intelligent systems demo), July 2005, 6173 downloads, 35 citations.
  4. V. Parekh, "Applying Ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to Environmental Sciences and Engineering", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2005, 14956 downloads, 1 citation.
  5. L. Ding, P. Kolari, T. Finin, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, and Y. Yesha, "On Homeland Security and the Semantic Web: A Provenance and Trust Aware Inference Framework", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security, March 2005, 4778 downloads, 32 citations.
  6. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Communicative Behavior using Permissions and Obligations", InBook, Developments in Agent Communication, Eds. Frank Dignum, Rogier van Eijk, Marc-Philippe Huget, January 2005, 4248 downloads, 14 citations.

2004

  1. M. Sheshagiri, "Automatic Composition and Invocation of Semantic Web Services", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2004, 3203 downloads, 11 citations.
  2. L. Kagal and T. Finin, "Modeling Conversation Policies using Permissions and Obligations", InProceedings, AAMAS 2004 Workshop on Agent Communication (AC2004), July 2004, 5708 downloads, 50 citations.
  3. D. Khushraj, "Semantic Tuple Spaces: A Coordination", MastersThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, January 2004.
  4. Z. Ding and Y. Peng, "A Probabilistic Extension to Ontology Language OWL", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference On System Sciences (HICSS-37)., January 2004, 6571 downloads, 154 citations.

2003

  1. A. Joshi, "Data Mining, Semantics and Intrusion Detection: What to dig for and Where to find it", InBook, Next Generation Data Mining, December 2003, 2 citations.
  2. A. Joshi, "On Web, Semantics, and Data Mining: Intrusion Detection as a Case Study", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NSF Workshop on Next Generation Data Mining, May 2003, 3903 downloads, 4 citations.

2001

  1. H. Chen, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Dynamic Service Discovery for Mobile Computing: Intelligent Agents Meet Jini in the Aether", Article, Cluster Computing, February 2001, 4263 downloads, 69 citations.

2000

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "History, State of the Art and Challenges for Agent Communication Languages", Article, Informatik/Informatique, January 2000, 2988 downloads, 9 citations.

1999

  1. T. Finin and Y. K. Labrou, "Tutorial on Agent Communication Languages", Presentation slides, IEEE Computer Society, October 1999, 402 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou, T. Finin, and Y. Peng, "Agent Communication Languages: the Current Landscape", Article, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 1999, 3564 downloads, 446 citations.

1998

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", Readings in Agents, January 1998, 375 downloads.

1997

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Towards a Standard for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Working Notes of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Communicative Action in Humans and Machines, November 1997, 438 downloads.
  2. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics and Conversations for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), August 1997, 526 downloads.
  3. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", InProceedings, 4th International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, July 1997, 471 downloads.

1996

  1. Y. K. Labrou, "Semantics for an Agent Communication Language", PhdThesis, UMBC, August 1996, 607 downloads, 234 citations.
  2. T. Finin, Y. K. Labrou, and J. Mayfield, "Evaluating KQML as an agent communication language", InBook, Intelligent Agents II -- Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, January 1996, 2584 downloads, 47 citations.
  3. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Evaluation of KQML as an Agent Communication Language", InCollection, Intelligent Agents Volume II - 1995 Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures and Languages, January 1996, 829 downloads.

1995

  1. J. Mayfield, Y. K. Labrou, and T. Finin, "Desiderata for Agent Communication Languages", InProceedings, AAAI Spring Symposium on Information Gathering in Distributed Environments, March 1995, 563 downloads.

1994

  1. Y. K. Labrou and T. Finin, "A semantics approach for KQML -- a general purpose communication language for software agents", InProceedings, Third International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 1994, 678 downloads.

Presentation

  1. A Schema-Based Approach Combined with Inter-Ontology Reasoning to Construct Consensus Ontologies
  2. Automatically Generating Linked Data from Tables
  3. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web
  4. BayesOWL: A Probabilistic Framework for Uncertainty in Semantic Web (pdf)
  5. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables
  6. GoRelations: an Intuitive Query System for DBPedia (and LOD)
  7. Linked Data for the Rest of Us
  8. LOD for the rest of us
  9. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use
  10. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use for Sharing Science Data
  11. Personalized Information Retrieval in Context
  12. Research challenges for "The web, semantics and data mining"
  13. Semantics for big data security and privacy
  14. Semantics for Cybersecurity and Privacy
  15. Semantics for Privacy and Context
  16. Semantics for Privacy and Context on the IoT
  17. The Semantic Web: there and back again
  18. Theory and Practice of Agent Communication in the Semantic Web Era

Poster

  1. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables
  2. Generating Linked Data by inferring the semantics of tables
  3. SEMDIS poster (March 2005)

Dataset

  1. UMBC webbase corpus

Demonstration

  1. Word and phrase similarity

Old News

  1. SemNews: news text to Semantic Web
    January 12, 2006
  2. Zhongli Ding defends dissertation
    December 5, 2005
  3. Finin to serve as editor-in-chief of Journal of Web Semantics
    September 1, 2005
  4. SweetRules v2.1 released
    April 25, 2005

Old Events

  1. Beyond NER: Towards Semantics in Clinical Text
    October 5, 2015
  2. Semantics for Cybersecurity and Privacy
    May 1, 2015
  3. TABEL -- A Domain Independent and Extensible Framework for Inferring the Semantics of Tables
    January 8, 2015
  4. Semantics for Privacy and Context
    October 20, 2014
  5. Semantics for Big Data (,) Security and Privacy
    September 16, 2014
  6. PhD defense: Lushan Han, Schema Free Querying of Semantic Data
    May 23, 2014
  7. Phd proposal: A Semantic Resolution Framework for Manufacturing Capability Data Integration
    May 14, 2013
  8. The Semantic Web: there and back again
    April 18, 2013
  9. Generating Linked Data from Tables.
    March 24, 2013
  10. Making the Semantic Web Easier to Use
    April 1, 2012