Showcase 2021

A showcase of the research and software development projects of our third year BCom and BSc finalists, Masters and PhD students.

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Project Showcase

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A Corpus-based Method for Authoring Competency Questions in Ontology Engineering

By: Mj Antia

Competency Questions (CQs) are sets of natural language questions drawn from a given domain and are intended for use in ontology engineering processes. While there has been substantial research on the important roles that CQs play in the ontology...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute Knowledge Engineering

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Modelling Localised Conceptualisations and Annotations in a Multilingual OWL Ontology

By: Frances Gillis-Webber

Ontologies are intended as a particular conceptualisation of the world. When formalised using Web Ontology Language (OWL), entities and axioms contained therein are typically annotated in a natural language, using rdfs:label. To create a...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute Knowledge Engineering

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Generating Answerable Questions from Ontologies

By: Toky Raboanary

Proposals for automating the creation of teaching materials across the sciences and humanities include question generation from ontologies.

Those efforts have focused on multiple-choice questions, whereas learners also need to be exposed to...

CS PhD Hasso Plattner Institute Knowledge Engineering

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Automated Ontology Design Pattern Substitution

By: Leighton Dawson

Foundational ontologies provide many benefits in modelling quality and interoperability across domains by providing generic high-level classes and object properties. The use of foundational ontologies, however, obfuscates the output of ontology...

CS Minor Dissertation Knowledge Engineering

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Digital Assistant for Financial Transactions
A multilingual personal finance management application incorporating NLG

By: Junior Moraba, Amy Solomons

In a country of 11 official languages, only 2 languages, namely, English and Afrikaans, are dominantly used in the financial domain. Many banks and other institutions offering Fintech services for improving financial literacy are not fully...

CS Honours Knowledge Engineering

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SALSA
Software for Afro-Latin Dances in South Africa

By: James Kriel, Ana Dauane

The SALSA project was undertaken to develop a conceptually dance education platform for social dancing in South Africa. To do these two components of this platform were created, a Step Notation component and a Video Annotation component. The Step...

CS Honours Knowledge Engineering