KIDS Research
We apply our research to solve real-world problems and we publish the results of our research in international Artificial Intelligence journals and conferences.
Active Projects
- Transforming UCL Special Collections Utilising Wikidata, Knowledge Exchange and Innovation, funded by UCL (March-November, 2025)
- Repurposing of Resources: from Everyday Problem Solving to Crisis Management, funded by Leverhulme (2022-2025)
The Sloane Lab: Looking back to build future shared collections, TaNC research project, funded by AHRC (2021-2024)
Selected Recent Publications
- Daniel Cunliffe, Andreas Vlachidis, Daniel Williams, Douglas Tudhope: Natural language processing for under-resourced languages: Developing a Welsh natural language toolkit. Comput. Speech Lang. 72: 101311 (2022) (UCL Discovery)
- Selena Nemorin, Andreas Vlachidis, Ayerakwa Hayford, Panagiotis Andriotis: AI hyped? A horizon scan of discourse on artificial intelligence in education (AIED) and development. Learning, Media and Technology (2022) (UCL Discovery)
- Daniel Onah, Elaine Pang, Mahmoud El-Haj: A Data-driven Latent Semantic Analysis for Automatic Text Summarization using LDA Topic Modelling. arXiv:2207.14687 (2022) (arXiv)
- Alexandros Vassiliades, Theodore Patkos, Giorgos Flouris, Antonis Bikakis, Nick Bassiliades, Dimitris Plexousakis: Abstract Argumentation Frameworks with Domain Assignments. IJCAI 2021: 2076-2082 (2021) (UCL Discovery)
- Foteini Valeonti, Antonis Bikakis, Melissa Terras, Chris Speed, Andrwe Hudson-Smith, Konstantinos Chalkias: Crypto Collectibles, Museum Funding and OpenGLAM: Challenges, Opportunities and the Potential of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). Applied Sciences, 11, no. 21: 9931 (2021) (UCL Discovery)
- Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro, Antonis Bikakis, Luke Dickens, Rob Miller: Probabilistic reasoning about epistemic action narratives. Artificial Intelligence 287: 103352 (2020) (UCL Discovery)
- Giorgos Flouris, Antonis Bikakis: A comprehensive study of argumentation frameworks with sets of attacking arguments. International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 109: 55-86 (2019) (UCL Discovery)
- Calin-Rares Turliuc, Luke Dickens, Alessandra Russo, Krysia Broda: Probabilistic abductive logic programming using Dirichlet priors. Int. J. Approx. Reasoning 78: 223-240 (2016) (UCL Discovery)
- George Gkotsis, Karen Stepanyan, Alexandra I. Cristea, Mike Joy: Entropy-based automated wrapper generation for weblog data extraction. World Wide Web 17(4): 827-846 (2014) (Publisher’s website)
Research-Led Teaching
Members of the KIDS Research team are also teaching on the postgraduate MSc Knowledge, Information and Data Science course that is directly associated and is led by the research team. Find out more about our programme on the MSc KIDS prospectus.