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Conference Publications

Christopher Thomas, Pankaj Mehra, Roger Brooks and Amit Sheth Growing Fields of Interest - Using an Expand and Reduce Strategy for Domain Model Extraction, in the Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2008  
Christopher Thomas and Amit Sheth Semantic Convergence of Wikipedia Articles, in the Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2007  
Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York Modular Ontology Design Using Canonical Building Blocks in the Biochemistry Domain. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS). IOS Press, November 2006. Paper (pdf)  
Satya S. Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit P. Sheth, William S. York, Samir Tartir Knowledge Modeling and its Application in Life Sciences: A Tale of two Ontologies, Proceedings of WWW 2006, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23rd-26th May 2006 (acceptance rate 11%).  
Prashant Doshi and Christopher Thomas Inexact Matching of Ontology Graphs Using Expectation-Maximization, In the Proceedings of AAAI, Special track on AI and the Web, 2006  
     

Journal Publications

Prashant Doshi, Ravikanth Kolli and Christopher Thomas Inexact Matching of Ontology Graphs Using Expectation-Maximization, in Journal of Web Semantics (JWS), 2009  
Satya S. Sahoo, Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Cory Henson, William S. York GLYDE - An expressive XML standard for the representation of glycan structure, Carbohydrate Research, Volume 340, Issue 18, 30 December 2005, Pages 2802-2807  
Vipul Kashyap, Cartic Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas and Amit Sheth TaxaMiner: An Experimental Framework for Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping. International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Special Issue on Semantic Web and Mining Reasoning, September 2005  
Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan, and Christopher Thomas Semantics for the Semantic Web: the Implicit, the Formal and the Powerful. International Journal on Semantic Web & Information Systems, 1 (1), Jan-Mar 2005, pp. 1-18.  
     

Book Chapters

Christopher Thomas and Amit Sheth On the Expressiveness of the Languages for the Semantic Web - Making a Case for 'A Little More', in E. Sanchez (Editor), "Fuzzy Logic and the Semantic Web", Elsevier, March 2006  
Nicole Oldham, Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma METEOR-S Web Service Annotation Framework with Machine Learning Classification, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3387, Jan 2005, Pages 137 - 146  
     

Workshop Publications

Nicole Oldham, Christopher Thomas, Amit Sheth, Kunal Verma METEOR-S Web service Annotation Framework with Machine Learning Classification, First International Workshop on Semantic Web Services and Web Process Composition (SWSWPC 2004), In conjunction with the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS'2004).  

William S. York, Amit Sheth, Krystof Kochut, John A. Miller, Christopher Thomas, Karthik Gomadam, Meenakshi Nagarajan, Xiaochuan Yi

"Semantic Integration of Glycomics Data and Information," Human Disease Glycomics/Proteome Initiative 1st Workshop 2004: Functional Glycomics in Disease, Osaka, Japan
Abstract (pdf), Presentation (ppt)
 
Amit Sheth, William York, Christopher Thomas, Meenakshi Nagarajan, John A. Miller, Krys Kochut, Satya Sahoo, Xiaochuan Yi "Semantic Web technology in support of Bioinformatics for Glycan Expression,"W3C Workshop on Semantic Web for Life Sciences, 27-28 October 2004, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA. Paper (pdf), Presentation (ppt)  
     

Technical Reports

V. Kashyap, C. Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, D. Bassu, T. C. Rindflesch and A. Sheth TaxaMiner: An Experimentation Framework for Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping.
Technical Report number UGA-CS-TR-04-005, Computer Science Dept., University of Georgia.
 
C. Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, V. Kashyap and A. Sheth TaxaMiner: Improving Taxonomy Label Quality Using Latent Semantic Indexing.
Technical Report number UGA-CS-TR-04-006, Computer Science Dept., University of Georgia.
 
Christopher Thomas Predicting Domain Specific Entities with Limited Background Knowledge
LSDIS Technical Report, August 2006.
 
     

Essays

Christopher Thomas Web Wisdom - An Essay on How Web 2.0 and Semantic Web can foster a Global Knowledge Society, Work in Progress  
Christopher Thomas On Truth and Metaphoricity  
     

Presentations

V. Kashyap, C. Ramakrishnan, Christopher Thomas, D. Bassu, T.C. Rindflesch and A. Sheth TaxaMiner: An Experimentation Framework for Automated Taxonomy Bootstrapping
Presented at the 4th Annual Georgia Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference