The mission of the Advanced Knowledge Technologies consortium is to identify where we can, and invent where we must, the next generation of technologies for organisations to create, manage and extract value from their knowledge assets, and to integrate these technologies to create a complete approach to the knowledge life cycle.

During our research, a number of component technologies have been implemented, exploring the different challenges encountered through the various stages of the knowledge lifecycle.

In addition to our core research during the summers of 2005 and 2006 , Southampton employed a dozen or so undergraduate students to work on activities supporting our the research aims. The result of this work has been gathered together on separate pages for the summer of 2005 and 2006.

• 3store
  A core C library that uses MySQL to store its raw RDF data and caches, forming an important part of the infrastructure required to support a range of knowledgeable services.
  
  
• AKTive Media
  AKtive Media is an ontology based cross-media annotation (Images and Text) system. Our goal is to automate the process of annoation by suggesting knowledge to the user in an interactive way while the user is annotating and hence minimizing user effort. The system actively works in the background, interacting with web services and queries our central annotational store to look for context specific knowledge.
  
  
• AKTiveDoc
  AktiveDoc is a tool for supporting knowledge management in the process of document editing and reading. Its main goal is to support users (both readers and writers) in timely sharing and reusing relevant knowledge.
  
  
• Abraxas
  A tri-partite, dynamic and iterative approach to automatic ontology learning.
  
  
• AKT Research Map
  A competence map for members of the AKT project
  
  
• AKT-Bus
  An open, lightweight, Web standards-based communication infrastructure to support interoperability among knowledge services.
  
  
• ANNIE - Open Source Information Extraction
  An open-source robust information extraction system
  
  
• Adaptiva
  A user-centred ontology building environment, based on using multiple strategies to construct an ontology, minimising user input by using adaptive information extraction.
  
  
• Amilcare
  An adaptive information extraction tool designed to support document annotation for the Semantic Web.
  
  
• Applications of FCA in AKT
  Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used in a variety of application scenarios in AKT in order to perform concept-based domain analysis and automatically deduce a taxonomy lattice of that domain.
  
  
• Aqua
  AQUA is a system which answer questions written in English. It combines several technologies Natural Language Processing, Logic, Information Retrieval and Ontologies.
  
  
• AquaLog
  AquaLog is a Natural Language Question Answering System for corporate semantics intranets. The next generation of AquaLog, PowerAqua, will be a QA system able to provide answers drawn from multiple heterogeneous ontologies on the Semantic Web in the large.
  
  
• Armadillo
  Exploits the redundancies apparent in the Internet, combining many information sources to perform document annotation with minimal human intervention.
  
  
• ArtEquAkt
  A system that automatically extracts information about artists from the web, populates an ontology, then uses the knowledge to generate personalised biographies.
  
  
• Automatic Support for Enterprise Modelling and Workflow
  Knowledge management using multi-modelling techniques and how modelling activities may be assisted with automation based on formal methods.
  
  
• BuddySpace
  Instant messaging with custom map visualizations, semantics of presence (beyond 'offline'/'online'/'away' status) and value-added web services (group alerts, bots, inferences via personal profiles)
  
  
• CASD
  A tool for producing system architecture diagrams from service and data descriptions.
  
  
• CJJTOE
  A tool that produces an OWL Lite ontology containing all the fact templates as classes, structured in the inferred taxonomy.
  
  
• COCKATOO
  A knowledge acquisition tool which can be used to produce a set of cases for use with a Case-Based Reasoning system.
  
  
• COHSE - Conceptual Open Hypermedia Services Environment
  COHSE researches methods to improve significantly the quality, consistency and breadth of linking of WWW documents at retrieval and authoring time.
  
  
• CS AKTiveSpace
  CS AKTiveSpace is a smart browser interface for a Semantic Web application that provides ontologically motivated information about the UK computer science research community.
  
  
• ClassAKT
  A text classification web service for classifying documents according to the ACM Computing Classification System.
  
  
• Compendium
  Compendium is a semantic, visual hypertext tool for supporting collaborative domain modelling and real time meeting capture
  
  
• ConRef
  A service discovery system which uses ontology mapping techniques to support different user vocabularies
  
  
• ConcepTool
  A system to model, analyse, verify, validate, share, combine, and reuse domain knowledge bases and ontologies, reasoning about their implication.
  
  
• D3E - Digital Document Discourse Environment
  D3E enables the easy conversion of websites or structured documents into interactive discussion sites
  
  
• Dome
  A programmable XML editor which is being used in a knowledge extraction role to transform Web pages into RDF.
  
  
• Eprep
  An add-on for the Eprints document archive which uses text extraction to automatically create the bibliographic metadata needed for the submission of a new document.
  
  
• ExtrAKT
  ExtrAKT is a tool for extracting ontologies from Prolog knowledge bases.
  
  
• eServices
  The e-Services framework provides advanced scholarly services (in particular visualisations) using distributed metadata.
  
  
• F-Life
  F-Life is a tool for analysing and maintaining life-cycle patterns in ontology development.
  
  
• Floodsim
  A prototype system which demonstrates the benefits of applying semantically rich service descriptions (expressed using Semantic Web technologies) to Web Services.
  
  
• Foxtrot
  Foxtrot is a recommender system which represents user profiles in ontological terms, allowing inference, bootstrapping and profile visualization.
  
  
• GATE - General Architecture for Text Engineering
  GATE is a stable, robust, and scalable open-source infrastructure which allows users to build and customise language processing components, while it handles mundane tasks like data storage, format analysis and data visualisation.
  
  
• I-X Process Panels
  The I-X tool suite supports principled collaborations of human and computer agents in the creation or modification of some product.
  
  
• IF-Map
  IF-Map is an Information Flow based ontology mapping method. It is based on the theoretical grounds of logic of distributed systems and provides an automated streamlined process for generating mappings between ontologies of the same domain.
  
  
• ILP for Information Extraction
  To overcome the knowledge acquisition bottleneck, we apply Inductive Logic Programming techniques to learn Information Extraction rules.
  
  
• Identify Knowledge Base
  Identify-Knowledge-Base is a tool of Topic Identification about Knowledge Base
  
  
• Internet Reasoning Service
  The Internet Reasoning Service provides a a number of tools which supports the publication, location, composition and execution of heterogeneous web services, specified using semantic web technology
  
  
• K-Search
  A flexible search system for information retrieval and visualisation supporting both keyword and semantic approach
  
  
  
• KRAFT - I-X TIE
  Supports collaboration among members of a virtual organisation by integrating workflow and communication technology with constraint solving.
  
  
• KnoZilla
  
  
  
• Knowledge Broker
  The knowledge broker addresses the problem of knowledge service location in distributed environments.
  
  
• Magpie
  Magpie supports the interpretation of web documents through on-the-fly ontologically based enrichment. Semantic services can be invoked either by the user or be automatically triggered by patterns of browsing activity
  
  
• Melita
  Melita is a semi-automatic annotation tool using an Adaptive Information Extraction engine (Amilcare)to support the user in document annotation.
  
  
• Muskrat-II
  Given a set of knowledge bases and problems solvers, the Muskrat system will try to identify which knowledge bases could be combined with which problems solvers to solve a given problem.
  
  
• MyPlanet
  MyPlanet allows users to create a personalised version of a web based newsletter using an ontologically based profile.
  
  
• NMARKUP
  NMARKUP helps the user build ontologies by detecting nouns in texts and by providing support for the creation of an ontology based on the entities extracted.
  
  
• ONTOCOPI
  A tool which uncovers Communities Of Practise by analysing the connectivity of instances in the 3store knowledge base.
  
  
• OntoPortal
  Enables the authoring and navigation of large semantically-powered portals
  
  
• ONTOSEARCH2
  ONTOSEARCH2 uses semantic approximations of description logics to reduce the complexity of ontologies.
  
  
• PJMappingTab
  PJMappingTab is a Protégé tab-plug-in which supports the user in achieving reuse of a JessTab rule set.  By automating many of the procedures the user would otherwise be required to perform manually, PJMappingTab simplifies and accelerates the process of modifying a JessTab rule set for reuse.
  
  
• Revyu
  Revyu is a web site allowing people to write reviews and give ratings of anything they choose. Reviews and ratings are provided via web forms and republished on the web as RDF/XML and via a SPARQL endpoint.
  
  
• ReTAX+
  ReTAX is an aide to help a taxonomist create a consistent taxonomy and in particular provides suggestions as to where a new entity could be placed in the taxonomy whilst retaining the integrity of the revised taxonomy (c.f., problems in ontology modelling).
  
  
• Refiner++
  REFINER++ is a system which allows domain experts to create and maintain their own Knowledge Bases, and to receive suggestions as to how to remove inconsistencies, if they exist.
  
  
• Semantic Annotation with MnM
  MnM is a semantic annotation tool which provides manual, automated and semi-automated support for annotating web pages with 'semantics', i.e., machine interpretable descriptions.
  
  
• Simmetrics
  SimMetrics is an open source extensible library of Similarity or Distance Metrics
  
  
• T-Rex
  Trainable Relation Extraction Framework
  
  
• Visualisations for the CS AKTive Portal
  Maps are used to geographically illustrate knowledge from the Triplestore, such as highlighting the locations in the UK that are active in a particular research area.
  
  
• WebOnto
  WebOnto supports the browsing, creation and editing of ontologies through coarse grained and fine grained visualizations and direct manipulation.