This is the home page for the ASKNet project. The following is a list of resources which will provide more information regarding this project. There will be more information available as the project progresses. (Note that prior to Dec 2006, the project was known as SaskNet).

Papers

• Semantic Knowledge Representation. [Editor]
  Special Issue of the International Journal of Semantic Computing.
  to appear 2011.
  
• Discovering Novel Biomedical Relations using ASKNet Semantic Networks. [invited paper]
  Brian Harrington
  Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium On Applied Sciences In Biomedical And Communication Technologies (ISABEL 2011)
  Barcelona Spain, 2011
  [PDF]
• Creating a Standardized Markup Language for Semantic Networks
  Brian Harrington and Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek
  Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011)
  [PDF]
• OMEX: Software for Mining Mathematical Expression Semantics from Scientific Documents
  Yiannos A. Stathopoulos and Brian Harrington
  Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2011)
  [PDF]
• Optimising Parameters for ASKNet: A Large Scale Semantic Knowledge Network Creation System
  Brian Harrington and Simon Kempner
  Proceedings of the The First International Conference on Advances in Information Mining and Management (IMMM 2011)
  [PDF]
• ASKNet: Leveraging Bio-Cognitive Models in Natural Language Processing
  Brian Harrington
  Proceedings of the The Second International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA 2011)
  [PDF]
• A Semantic Network Approach to Measuring Relatedness
  Brian Harrington
  Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing China, 2010
  [PDF]
• Managing Uncertainty, Importance and Differing World-Views in ASKNet Semantic Networks
  Brian Harrington
  Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Pittsburgh PA, 2010
  [PDF]
• Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition Using Automatically Generated Large-Scale Semantic Networks
  Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek, Brian Harrington, Sebastian Rudolph and Stephen Pulman
  Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2010
  [PDF]
• ASKNet: Automatically Creating Semantic Knowledge Networks from Natural Language Text
  Brian Harrington
  DPhil Thesis. University of Oxford. 2009
  [PDF]
• ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
  Brian Harrington & Stephen Clark
  International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2(3), pp.343-364, 2009.
  [LINK]
• ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks
  Brian Harrington & Stephen Clark
  Proceedings of the second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC-08)
  Santa Clara, CA, 2008.
  [PDF]
• ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
  Brian Harrington & Stephen Clark
  Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07)
  Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
  [PDF]
• SaskNet: A Spreading Activation Based Semantic Network - Report on the Current State of Development
  Brian Harrington
  Unpublished. Submitted in Partial Completion of the Requirements for Transfer to DPhil Status
  Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 2006.
  [PDF]

Posters

• ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network
  Presented at the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010)
  [PDF]
  

Supplimentary Files

• Evaluation Files
  Formatted ASKNet output files and evaluation forms provided to test subjects for human evaluation of ASKNet output.
  Zip File: [ZIP]