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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award For leadership in semantic web research and in bridging AI and eScience, significant contributions to deployed AI applications, and extensive service to the AI community.
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Deborah L. McGuinness is a researcher affiliated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States, primarily working in the field of Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence. Their research spans multiple subfields including Molecular Biology, Information Systems and Management, and Management Science and Operations Research.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Topic Modeling
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Data Quality and Management

Some of their recent published papers cover diverse areas of interest:

  • Differences in Cancer Phenotypes Among Frequent CHEK2 Variants and Implications for Clinical Care-Checking CHEK2, 2022, JAMA Oncology
  • Polymer Nanocomposite Data: Curation, Frameworks, Access, and Potential for Discovery and Design, 2020, ACS Macro Letters
  • The Semantic Data Dictionary - An Approach for Describing and Annotating Data, 2020, Data Intelligence
  • Identifying Ingredient Substitutions Using a Knowledge Graph of Food, 2021, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Designing a strong test for measuring true common-sense reasoning, 2022, Nature Machine Intelligence

The frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include Henrique Santos, Oshani Seneviratne, Mayank Kejriwal, Alice M. Mulvehill, and Ke Shen.

Their work has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Data Intelligence
  • JAMA Oncology
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Recognition for contributions to the field includes awards such as the AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award in 2013, awarded for leadership in semantic web research and bridging AI with eScience, as well as the distinction of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) received in the same year.

Best Publications

  • The Description Logic Handbook: Theory, Implementation and Applications

    Franz Baader;Diego Calvanese;Deborah L. McGuinness;Daniele Nardi

  • Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology

    Natalya F. Noy;Deborah L. McGuinness

  • OWL Web ontology language overview

    D. L. Mcguinness

  • The Description Logic Handbook

    Franz Baader;Diego Calvanese;Deborah L. McGuinness;Daniele Nardi

  • OIL: an ontology infrastructure for the Semantic Web

    D. Fensel;F. van Harmelen;I. Horrocks;D.L. McGuinness

  • Bringing semantics to web services: the OWL-S approach

    David Martin;Massimo Paolucci;Sheila McIlraith;Mark Burstein

  • CLASSIC: a structural data model for objects

    Alexander Borgida;Ronald J. Brachman;Deborah L. McGuinness;Lori Alperin Resnick

  • An environment for merging and testing large ontologies

    Deborah L. McGuinness;Richard Fikes;James Rice;Steve Wilder

  • Ontologies Come of Age

    Deborah L. McGuinness

  • Living wiht Classic: When and How to Use a KL-ONE-Like Language.

    Ronald J. Brachman;Deborah L. McGuinness;Peter F. Patel-Schneider;Lori Alperin Resnick

  • Bringing Semantics to Web Services with OWL-S

    David Martin;Mark Burstein;Drew Mcdermott;Sheila Mcilraith

  • Web Ontology Language

    DL McGuinness;Frank van Harmelen

  • LIVING WITH CLASSIC: When and How to Use a KL-ONE-Like Language

    Ronald J. Brachman;Deborah L. McGuinness;Peter F. Patel-Schneider;Lori Alperin Resnick

  • PROV-O: The PROV Ontology

    Timothy Lebo;Satya Sahoo;Deborah McGuinness;Khalid Belhajjame

  • DAML+OIL: an ontology language for the Semantic Web

    D.L. Mcguinness;R. Fikes;J. Hendler;L.A. Stein

  • The Role of Frame-Based Representation on the Semantic Web

    Ora Lassila;Deborah McGuinness

  • OWL Web Ontology Language Reference-W3C Recommen-dation

    Sean Bechhofer;Frank van Harmelen;James A. Hendler;Ian Horrocks

  • The semantic Web and its languages

    O. Lassila;F. van Harmelen;I. Horrocks;J. Hendler

  • The Chimaera Ontology Environment

    Deborah L. McGuinness;Richard Fikes;James Rice;Steve Wilder

  • When owl: sameAs isn't the same: an analysis of identity in linked data

    Harry Halpin;Patrick J. Hayes;James P. McCusker;Deborah L. McGuinness

  • The Description Logic Handbook: Preface

    Franz Baader;Diego Calvanese;Deborah L. McGuinness;Daniele Nardi

Frequent Co-Authors

James A. Hendler
James A. Hendler Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Peter F. Patel-Schneider Palo Alto Research Center
Alexander Borgida
Alexander Borgida Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Richard Fikes
Richard Fikes Stanford University
Franz Baader
Franz Baader TU Dresden
Ian Horrocks
Ian Horrocks University of Oxford
Diego Calvanese
Diego Calvanese Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Michel Dumontier
Michel Dumontier Maastricht University
Daniele Nardi
Daniele Nardi Sapienza University of Rome
Juergen Hahn
Juergen Hahn Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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