Yesterday, I gave a talk to the #ISKOUK Conference, presenting the status quo and challenges of creating Knowledge Organization Systems of Research Fields.
This slide summarises what I learned during these years in trying to use AI to generate them.
It's cool, it's artistic, but bloody hard!
Thanks to Aida Slavic and #ISKOUK for organising a brilliant biennial conference on 'Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI'
Maybe we cannot 'solve' the problem of different representations of communities. It is more of a process (e.g. by participatory governance). Otherwise we could be guilty of erasure of other experience. It is difficult and could be uncomfortable. Joseph Busch at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference.
Terminology is used in specific context. Participatory governance - include the communities that are being described by those systems - to more fairly represent communities. Julaine Clunis at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Joane Casenave, Widad M El Hadi, and Thibault Grison from the University of Lille (France) are doing a joint presentation on 'Artificial intelligence, KO and information mediation on the Web: from ethical dimensions to social responsibility' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Good to see a typology of explainable AI (XAI) methods used for analysing KOSs in Julaine Clunis' paper at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Very interested to hear about Biases in KOSs in Julaine Clunis' talk at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference. This is a real problem when it comes to algorithmic bias.
Refinement of searches through exploration built into the LEGO model described by Tony Russell-Rose at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference.
What happens when you try to build a systematic search system 'for real'? What are the practicalities? Prof. Tony Russell-Rose at #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Tony Russell-Rose of City St George's, University of London (UK) on 'Building and deploying LLMs for search and retrieval' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
At the conference, @angelosalatino.bsky.social reviewed existing KOSs for academic disciplines and discussed how AI can help build them.
He asked: How can we integrate existing KOSs of research fields?
It's an important question for both KO and scientometrics.
#AI #KnowledgeOrganization #ISKOUK
In open world AI only 20 or 30 ontologies are used out of nearly 900 ontologies reviewed by Mayukh Bagchi and presented at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Mayukh Bagchi of the University of Trento (Italy) talks about 'Generative knowledge organization via human-LLM collaboration' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Using AI to generate KOSs - @angelosalatino.bsky.social proposes an alternative to statistical inference for automatic generation of ontologies of research topics #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Machine-readable thesauri are essential. @angelosalatino.bsky.social identifies some major thesauri are only available as PDFs. There are a good number available in RDF. #ISKOUK 2025 conference
Angelo Salatino @angelosalatino.bsky.social of The Open University (UK) talks about 'Knowledge organization systems of research fields: overview and automatic generation' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Tanja Svarre @drsvarre.bsky.social opens the third session of the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference with a presentation by Angelo Salatino
@angelosalatino.bsky.social.
Why don't we use KOSs in addition to LLMs? A question put to us by Joseph Busch at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Should prompting engineering be a part of preparation of students for the workplace? Joseph Busch has introduced some interesting concepts in his overview of the development of AI in retrieval at the #ISKOUK 2025 conference
At the conference, Ronald Siebes discussed the limitations of LLMs. They can explain various issues well but often struggle to apply this knowledge. He emphasized the important role of symbolic AI in improving their performance. See also:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
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Joseph Busch of Taxonomy Strategies (USA) talks about 'The case for general purpose categorizers as part of the AI ecosystem' at the #ISKOUK 2025 conference
Fascinating to learn about 'Potemkin Understanding' - i.e. a facade (or illusion) of understanding exhibited by LLMs - Ronald Siebes at the #ISKOUK 2025 conference
Ronald Siebes from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) talks about 'Potemkin Understanding: the illusion of thinking' at the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
@gnoli.eu chaired the first session of the #ISKOUK 2025 Conference. An emerging theme seems to be about the use of AI to enhance indexing of resources, but with human oversight. We do not seem to be yet at the stage where AI generated indexing or metadata is totally reliable.
Ziyoung Park from Hansung University (South Korea) talks about ' Co-creating with GenAI and expert review: empowering KOS projects through design, automation and recommendation' #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Marcia Zeng points out some of the problems of being solely dependent on AI for indexing #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Prof. Marcia Zeng takes us on a tour of different semantic systems using AI technology to enhance indexing and search performance. This includes inferential reasoning. So for instance, a geographical name links to geographic coordinates, and regional information. #ISKOUK 2025 conference
Marcia Zeng from Kent State University (USA): talk about 'The role of KOS in AI-supported semantic integration: disambiguation, identification, linking' #ISKOUK 2025 conference
Fascinating talk by Andrea Scharnhorst about building knowledge bases. Interesting reference to co-creation of archival materials. Also considers multi-sensory and multi-layered indexing #ISKOUK 2025 Conference
Today is the ISKO UK conference "Knowledge Organization in the Age of AI." The programme is here: iskouk.org/isko-uk-conf...
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