Confluence: News
June 2011: experimental study with the extended version of ROO The study examined the usefulness of semantic feedback and its impact on ontology authoring. The study was conducted with two groups of users - knowledge engineers and domain experts without knowledge engineering skills.
May 2011: new version of ROO ready for tests ROO now embeds the Entendre framework which offeres semantic feedback. It is now ready for tests with users.
March 2011 - JWS publication Article describing the overall project is accepted for publication at the Journal of Web Semantics - ROO was presented at the CNL workshop (link to the workshop and put the date
October 2010 - ROO is being used in two EU projects ROO is used as the main tool for ontology authoring involving domain experts within two EU projects: Dicode and ImREAL . The knowledge engineering tasks on both projects are led by Dr. Dhaval Thakker .
October 2009: Work on ontology purposes presented at Terra Cognita 2009 Ronald Denaux presented a paper on modelling the intended purpose of ontologies in geography at Terra Cognita 2009 Workshop asscoaitated with ISWC09. See links to the paper and the presentation.
June 2009 - ROO was presented at CNL2009 Ronald Denaux presented a paper describing ROO at the Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2009) . This paper gives detail about the implementation of ROO, and is available via Springer .
13 May 2009: Release of ROO 1.0.1 Dowload available from sourceforge. This is a minor update solving a memory leak problem and improving the recognition of complex concepts (you now can include hyphens and ampersands in concept names)
4 March 2009: Release of ROO 1.0. Dowload available from sourceforge.
1 March 2009: Started a public ROO wiki page. The wiki is currently populated with the ROO documentation.
17 November 2008: Release of ROO 0.4. Available from sourceforge
28 October 2008: Full research paper and demo at the 2008 International Semantic Web Conference
Project meeting: 17 September 2008Update on new release with full Rabbit support.
June 2008: Poster at the European Semantic Web Conference 2008
Project meeting: 22 May 2008 Agreement on implementation plan of the full Rabbit language.
April 2008 Demo at OWLED-DC 2008
Project meeting: 12 March 2008Update on usability evaluation and preparations for OWLED 2008DC demo.
Project meeting: 2 February 2008Agreed on required help materials. Updates on Rabbit Parser progress. Agreements on new project development infrastructure needs.
Project meeting: 31 January 2008 OS feedback on user support features (suggesting ontology construction tasks). Initial planning for user evaluations.
Project meeting: 19 December 2007 OS feedback on current version of prototype, requirements for next iteration agreed.
Project meeting: 30 October 2007 User scenarios finalised, requirements specified.
Project meeting: 17 October 2007 OS feedback on Confluence application - improvements of GUI identified.
Project meeting: 12 September 2007 Confluence application specifications agreed.
First Project meeting: 17 July 2007 Clarified the milestines and set the plan for prototype demonstrations and user studies.