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Research Areas

  1. Social media
  2. Web based information systems

Past Projects

  1. Wikitology

Publications

2021

  1. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Understanding Cybersecurity Threat Trends through Dynamic Topic Modeling", Article, Frontiers in Big Data, June 2021, 694 downloads.

2020

  1. J. Sleeman, T. Finin, and M. Halem, "Temporal Understanding of Cybersecurity Threats", InProceedings, IEEE 6th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud, May 2020, 1424 downloads.
  2. C. H. Song, D. Lawrie, and T. Finin, "Improving Neural Named Entity Recognition with Gazetteers", Article, arXiv:2003.03072, March 2020, 3413 downloads.

2018

  1. A. Padia, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "Team UMBC-FEVER: Claim verification using Semantic Lexical Resources", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First Workshop on Fact Extraction and Verification, November 2018, 1694 downloads.
  2. A. Padia, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "SURFACE: Semantically Rich Fact Validation with Explanations", InCollection, arXiv, November 2018, 1103 downloads.
  3. A. Padia, D. Martin, and P. Patel-Schneider, "Automating Class/Instance Representational Choices in Knowledge Bases", InProceedings, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2018), October 2018.
  4. A. Padia, F. Ferraro, and T. Finin, "SURFACE: Semantically Rich Fact Validation with Explanations", Article, arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.13223, October 2018, 880 downloads.

2015

  1. Z. Syed, T. Finin, M. M. Rahman, J. Kukla, and J. Yun, "Discovering and Querying Hybrid Linked Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Meets Linked Open Data co-located with 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference, May 2015, 1656 downloads.

2014

  1. J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, C. Harmon, T. Finin, and D. Lawrie, "KELVIN: Extracting Knowledge from Large Text Collections", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Natural Language Access to Big Data, November 2014, 1926 downloads.
  2. R. Yus, V. Mulwad, T. Finin, and E. Mena, "Infoboxer: Using Statistical and Semantic Knowledge to Help Create Wikipedia Infoboxes", InProceedings, 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), Riva del Garda (Italy), October 2014, 1555 downloads.

2013

  1. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Entity Type Recognition for Heterogeneous Semantic Graphs", InProceedings, AAAI 2013 Fall Symposium on Semantics for Big Data, November 2013, 2113 downloads.
  2. 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, 2792 downloads.
  3. J. Sleeman and T. Finin, "Type Prediction for Efficient Coreference Resolution in Heterogeneous Semantic Graphs", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, September 2013, 1781 downloads.
  4. P. McNamee, J. Mayfield, T. Finin, T. Oates, D. Lawrie, T. Xu, and D. Oard, "KELVIN: a tool for automated knowledge base construction", InProceedings, Proceedings Conf. of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, June 2013, 1761 downloads.
  5. 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, 3392 downloads.

2011

  1. V. Mulwad, W. Li, A. Joshi, T. Finin, and K. Viswanathan, "Extracting Information about Security Vulnerabilities from Web Text", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Web Intelligence for Information Security Workshop, August 2011, 3700 downloads.
  2. Z. Syed and T. Finin, "Creating and Exploiting a Hybrid Knowledge Base for Linked Data", InBook, Agents and Artificial Intelligence, April 2011, 2703 downloads.

2010

  1. V. Mulwad, T. Finin, Z. Syed, and A. Joshi, "Using linked data to interpret tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the the First International Workshop on Consuming Linked Data, November 2010, 3828 downloads, 7 citations.
  2. V. Mulwad, "T2LD - An automatic framework for extracting, interpreting and representing tables as Linked Data", MastersThesis, UMBC, August 2010, 4255 downloads.
  3. Z. Syed, "Wikitology: A novel hybrid knowledge base derived from wikipedia", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, August 2010, 1911 downloads.
  4. Z. Syed and T. Finin, "Approaches for Automatically Enriching Wikipedia", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI-2010 Workshop on Collaboratively-built Knowledge Sources and Artificial Intelligence, June 2010, 3125 downloads.
  5. Z. Syed and T. Finin, "Unsupervised techniques for discovering ontology elements from Wikipedia article links", InProceedings, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Formalisms and Methodology for Learning by Reading , June 2010, 3077 downloads.
  6. Z. Syed, T. Finin, V. Mulwad, and A. Joshi, "Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data for Interpreting Tables", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second Web Science Conference, April 2010, 6294 downloads, 6 citations.
  7. Z. Syed, , and T. Finin, "Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, January 2010, 6979 downloads, 9 citations.

2009

  1. T. Finin, Z. Syed, J. Mayfield, P. McNamee, and C. Piatko, "Using Wikitology for Cross-Document Entity Coreference Resolution", InProceedings, Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Learning by Reading and Learning to Read, March 2009, 3295 downloads, 7 citations.

2008

  1. A. Java, "Mining Social Media Communities and Content", PhdThesis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, December 2008, 57540 downloads.
  2. J. Mayfield, B. J. Dorr, T. Finin, D. Oard, and C. Piatko, "Knowledge Base Evaluation for Semantic Knowledge Discovery", InProceedings, Proceedings of the NSF Sponsored Symposium Semantic Knowledge Discovery, Organization and Use, November 2008, 3148 downloads.
  3. Z. Syed, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, October 2008, 235 downloads.
  4. A. Java, A. Joshi, and T. Finin, "Detecting Commmunities via Simultaneous Clustering of Graphs and Folksonomies", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on Web Mining and Web Usage Analysis (WebKDD), August 2008, 7644 downloads, 60 citations.
  5. Z. Syed, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), March 2008, 10731 downloads, 199 citations.
  6. Z. Syed, T. Finin, and A. Joshi, "Wikitology: Using Wikipedia as an Ontology", TechReport, February 2008, 7246 downloads.

2006

  1. H. Zeng, M. Alhossaini, L. Ding, R. Fikes, and D. L. McGuinness, "Computing Trust from Revision History", InProceedings, Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, October 2006, 3733 downloads, 55 citations.
  2. D. L. McGuinness, H. Zeng, P. Pinheiro da Silva, L. Ding, D. Narayanan, and M. Bhaowal, "Investigations into Trust for Collaborative Information Repositories: A Wikipedia Case Study", InProceedings, Proceedings of the Workshop on Models of Trust for the Web, May 2006, 4404 downloads, 45 citations.

2004

  1. Y. Zou, T. Finin, and H. Chen, "F-OWL: an Inference Engine for the Semantic Web", InBook, Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems, November 2004, 12731 downloads, 55 citations.
  2. W. Krueger, J. Nilsson, T. Oates, and T. Finin, "Automatically Generated DAML Markup for Semistructured Documents", InBook, Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management, January 2004, 2678 downloads, 11 citations.

2002

  1. L. Kagal, F. Perich, H. Chen, S. Tolia, Y. Zou, A. Joshi, Y. Peng, R. S. Cost, C. Nicholas, and T. Finin, "Agents Making Sense of the Semantic Web", InProceedings, Workshop on Radical Agent Concepts (WRAC): Innovative Concepts for Agent-Based Systems, January 2002, 5336 downloads, 9 citations.

1997

  1. R. S. Cost, I. Soboroff, J. Lakhani, T. Finin, E. Miller, and C. Nicholas, "Agent Development Support for Tcl", Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop, July 1997, 109 downloads.

Presentation

  1. Creating and Exploiting a Web of Semantic Data
  2. Tables to Linked Data
  3. Tables to Linked Data
  4. The Semantic Web: there and back again
  5. Using linked data to interpret tables
  6. WIkipedia as an ontology
  7. Wikitology: A Wikipedia Derived Knowledge Base
  8. Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology
  9. Wikitology: Wikipedia as an ontology

Poster

  1. Wikipedia as an ontology

Old News

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    September 5, 2006
  2. Welcome to the Splogosphere
    December 16, 2005

Old Events

  1. Generative Adversarial Networks, An Introduction
    February 1, 2017
  2. Responsive design with Twitter Bootstrap: a tutorial and demonstration
    October 15, 2014
  3. Infoboxer: Using Statistical and Semantic Knowledge to Help Create Wikipedia Infoboxes
    October 1, 2014
  4. The Semantic Web: there and back again
    April 18, 2013
  5. The why and how of LaTeX
    February 18, 2013
  6. An architecture for enterprise information interoperability
    November 9, 2012
  7. Cyber-Physical Social Systems: Research Challenges
    April 6, 2012
  8. Securing Cyber-Physical Systems
    March 26, 2012
  9. PowerRelations: A Question Answering System for DBPedia
    April 26, 2011
  10. Extracting Information about Security Vulnerabilities from Web Text
    April 19, 2011