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title: "Semantic Indexing of a Competence Map to Support Scientific Collaboration in a Research Community"
authors:
  - "Paola Velardi"
  - "Roberto Navigli"
  - "Michaël Petit"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/466"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0466.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2007
pages: "2897-2901"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Semantic Indexing of a Competence Map to Support Scientific Collaboration in a Research Community

Paola Velardi, Roberto Navigli, Michaël Petit

*Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 2897-2901.

## Abstract

This paper describes a methodology to semi-automatically acquire a taxonomy of terms and term definitions in a specific research domain. The taxonomy is then used for semantic search and indexing of a knowledge base of scientific competences, called Knowledge Map. The KMap is a system to support research collaborations and sharing of results within and beyond a European Network of Excellence. The methodology is general and can be applied to model any web community - starting from the documents shared and exchanged among the community members - and to use this model for improving accessibility of data and knowledge repositories.