Yalemisew M. Abgaz
Dr.
Contact Details
Assistant Professor
Glasnevin Campus
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
T:Ext. 6714
M:+353863207535
E:YalemisewM.Abgaz@dcu.ie
W:https://yalemisewabgaz.github.io/
L2.14
T:Ext. 6714
E:YalemisewM.Abgaz@dcu.ie
Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Dublin City University.
I am the module coordinator and expert panel lead for the Data Literacy and Analytics module rolling out to all ten DCU futures programs. As part of the HCI initiative, I am also working with the Dean for Strategic Learning Innovation and the Transversal Skills Program Director.
Based in the School of Computing, I am involved in the teaching and supervision of MSc and PhD students. I am a collaborator in the ADAPT and Lero research centres.
Previously, I was a Senior Research Fellow (2020-2021) in the Future Software Systems Architecture (FSSA) project in the Lero Research Centre at the School of Computing, DCU. From 2019 to 2021, I have been a funded principal investigator on the ChIA project affiliated with the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. ChIA is a Digital Humanities research project aiming to enhance the access and analysis of cultural data by testing semantic tools and AI technologies on cultural and historical images.
I have had worked as a postdoctoral researcher in ADAPT on the ExploreAt project (from April 2017 to May 2020) focusing on the semantic web technology, ontology engineering, knowledge representation, and natural language processing applied to digital humanities, linguistics, and lexicography.
I was one of the core researchers of the Dr Inventor project in the School of Computing at Maynooth University. I have had contributed to the development of a computational creativity system that assists researchers in finding new research ideas using analogical reasoning, natural language processing, semantic web technologies and graph analysis.
I work as an associate faculty at the National College of Ireland, School of Computing delivering modules including Algorithms and Advanced Programming, Databases, Data Analytics, and Research Methods.
Before I arrived in Ireland, I was a lecturer in the Information Science Department at Addis Ababa University. I also worked as a graduate assistant and a chief librarian at Rift Valley University College. I had worked as a national coordinator of the Health Information Systems Project (HISP) and the BENISH project in a collaboration with Addis Ababa University and the University of Oslo.
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Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Abgaz, Y.;Souza, R.R.;Methuku, J.;Koch, G.;Dorn, A. (2021) 'Article a methodology for semantic enrichment of cultural heritage images using artificial intelligence technologies'. 7 (8). [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Alejandro Rodriguez Diaz;Alejandro Benito-Santos;Amelie Dorn;Yalemisew Abgaz;Eveline Wandl-Vogt;Roberto Theron; (2019) 'Intuitive Ontology-Based SPARQL Queries for RDF Data Exploration'. Ieee Access, . [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Abgaz, Y.;Dorn, A.;Piringer, B.;Wandl-Vogt, E.;Way, A. (2018) 'Semantic modelling and publishing of traditional data collection questionnaires and answers'. INFORMATION, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Javed, M.;Abgaz, Y.M.;Pahl, C.; (2014) 'Layered change log model: Bridging between ontology change representation and pattern mining'. International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, . [DOI] | |
| 2013 | (2013) 'Change Impact Analysis for Evolving Ontology-based Content Management'. . | |
| 2013 | Javed, M.;Abgaz, Y.M.;Pahl, C.; (2013) 'Ontology Change Management and Identification of Change Patterns'. JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS, . [DOI] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | (2020) 'Harvesting Knowledge from Cultural Images with Assorted Technologies: The Example of the ChIA Project' In: Knowledge Organization at the Interface: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International ISKO Conference, 2020 Aalborg, Denmark. [DOI] |
Conference Publication
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | (2021) Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Semantic Web and Ontology Design for Cultural Heritage co-located with the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge 2021 (BOSK 2021), Virtual Event / ozen-Bolzano, Italy, September 20-21, 2021 Describing and Searching Food Content in Historical Images with the ChIA Vocabulary [Link] | |
| 2021 | Lapuz, N.;Clarke, P.;Abgaz, Y. (2021) Digital Transformation and the Role of Dynamic Tooling in Extracting Microservices from Existing Software Systems [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020) Using OntoLex-Lemon for Representing and Interlinking Lexicographic Collections of Bavarian Dialects | |
| 2020 | (2020) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Historical Image Enrichment and Access | |
| 2020 | (2020) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO) joint with the 10th Workshop on Ontologies and Data in Life Sciences (ODLS) and part of the Bolzano Summer of Knowledge (BoSK 2020), Virtual conference hosted in Bolzano, Italy, September 17, 2020 The ARK Platform: Enabling Risk Management Through Semantic Web Technologies | |
| 2020 | (2020) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Historical Image Enrichment and Access Towards a Comprehensive Assessment of the Quality and Richness of the Europeana Metadata of food-related Images | |
| 2020 | Grogan J.;Mulready C.;McDermott J.;Urbanavicius M.;Yilmaz M.;Abgaz Y.;McCarren A.;MacMahon S.T.;Garousi V.;Elger P.;Clarke P. (2020) Communications in Computer and Information Science A Multivocal Literature Review of Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) Infrastructures and Implications for Software Developers [DOI] | |
| 2020 | (2020) Proceedings of the Twin Talks 2 and 3 Workshops at DHN 2020 and DH 2020 A picture is worth a thousand wordsâ? â From Project Inception to First Results: Describing Cross-disciplinary Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Project ChIA | |
| 2020 | (2020) A comparative approach between different Computer Vision tools, including commercial & open-source, for improving cultural image access and analysis [DOI] | |
| 2019 | (2019) Digital Humanities Conference 2019 A Project Review Under The Focus Of Complexities On The Example Of ExploreAT! | |
| 2019 | (2019) DH_Budapest_2019 [Abstract Booklet] Enrichment of legacy language data: linking lexical concepts in data collection questionnaires on the example of exploreAT! | |
| 2019 | (2019) Opening up cultural content in non-standard language data through cross-disciplinary collaboration: insights on methods, process and learnings on theexample of exploreAT! | |
| 2018 | Yalemisew Abgaz (2018) EADH 2018 - Detailed Programme Co-creation of a thesaurus at the interface of cultural lexicography & cultural infrastructures: the case-study topothek.at & exploreAT! [Link] | |
| 2018 | (2018) A semantic Model for Traditional Data Collection Questionnaires enabling Cultural Analysis | |
| 2018 | Dorn, Amelie and Wandl-Vogt, Eveline and Abgaz, Yalemisew and Benito Santos, Alejandro and Ther\'on, Roberto (2018) Proceedings of the LREC 2018 Workshop CCURL 2018 Unlocking cultural conceptualisation in indigenous language resources: collaborative computing methodologies | |
| 2017 | (2017) Dr. Inventor, Promoting Scientific Creativity by Utilising Web-based Research Objects, FP7 | |
| 2017 | (2017) Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity Characteristics of Pro-c Analogies and Blends between Research Publications | |
| 2016 | (2016) Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Evaluation of Analogical Inferences Formed from Automatically Generated Representations of Scientific Publications | |
| 2016 | (2016) Eighth International Workshop Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2016) Embedding a Creativity Support Tool within Com- puter Graphics Research | |
| 2016 | (2016) UK-CLC 2016: 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference Generating Lexico-Semantic Graphs for Novel Analogies between Computer Graphics Publications using Dr Inventor | |
| 2016 | (2016) EGPAI 2016: Evaluating General Purpose AI workshop Expert and Corpus-Based Evaluation of a 3-Space Model of Conceptual Blending | |
| 2015 | (2015) ICCC Stimulating and Simulating Creativity with Dr Inventor | |
| 2014 | (2014) Towards Dr Inventor: A Tool for Promoting Scientific Creativity | |
| 2014 | (2014) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity Can a Computationally Creative System Create Itself? Creative Artefacts and Creative Processes | |
| Proceedings of Concept Invention and General Intelligence Workshop (C3GI) at ECAI 2014, Prague, Czech Republic Creating Formal Specifications with Analogical Reasoning | ||
| 2013 | (2013) EdMedia 2013 - World Conference on Educational Media and Technology Ontology evolution for learning content management systems | |
| 2012 | Abgaz, Y.M.;Javed, M.;Pahl, C.; (2012) Dependency analysis in ontology-driven content-based systems [DOI] | |
| 2012 | (2012) Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Analyzing impacts of change operations in evolving ontologies | |
| 2012 | (2012) Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics in conjunction with the 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2012) Composite Ontology Change Operators and their Customizable Evolution Strategies | |
| 2011 | Yalemisew Abgaz (2011) ISWC Workshops: Joint Workshop on Knowledge Evolution and Ontology Dynamics (EvoDyn), 24th October, 2011, Bonn, Germany Graph-based Discovery of Ontology Change Patterns | |
| 2011 | (2011) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Multilingual Semantic Web-Volume 775 A semantic model for integrated content management, localisation and language technology processing | |
| 2011 | (2011) 3rd International Workshop Ontology-Driven Information System Engineering (ODISE), London, UK A Layered Framework for Pattern-Based Ontology Evolution | |
| 2011 | (2011) OTM Confederated International Conferences On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems A framework for change impact analysis of ontology-driven content-based systems | |
| 2011 | (2011) International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management Towards implicit knowledge discovery from ontology change log data | |
| 2010 | Yalemisew Abgaz (2010) International Conference on Ontological and Semantic Engineering (ICOSE) Ontology-based Domain Modelling for Consistent Content Change Management | |
| 2010 | Yalemisew Abgaz (2010) Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2010 Utilising Ontology-based Modelling for Learning Content Management [Link] | |
| 2010 | (2010) OTM Confederated International Conferences On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems Empirical analysis of impacts of instance-driven changes in ontologies | |
| 2009 | (2009) OTM Confederated International Conferences On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems A pattern-based framework of change operators for ontology evolution | |
| CNGL Innovation Workshop 2009. Dublin Ireland.(Poster). October 2009 Content-Driven Change Discovery and Impact Determination in Evolving Ontologies |
Review Articles
| Year | Publication | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Dorn, Amelie;Wandl-Vogt, Eveline;Palfinger, Thomas;Theron, Roberto;Way, Andy;Abgaz, Yalemisew;Benito, Alejandro (2021) A project review under the focus of 'complexities' on the example of exploreAT!. REV [DOI] |
Employment
Research Interests
I am mainly interested in topics at the intersection between data analytics, semantic web technologies, knowledge representation and natural language processing including ontology development, ontology evolution, semantic search, semantic publishing, information retrieval, and computational creativity. I have published my research work in top-ranked peer-reviewed journals and conferences and served as a reviewer of different conferences and workshops.
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Teaching Interests
I am interested in teaching computer science modules including database systems and data analytics, programming, algorithms and data structures, artificial intelligence, semantic web technologies, natural language processing, and information systems.