SWSA Dissertation Award

Supporting Documents

Dissertation


Recommendation letters from dissertation advisor


Recommendation letters from external researchers


Short paper on the dissertation


List of relevant publications

  • Kalpa Gunaratna, Amir Yazdavar, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, and Gong Cheng. Accepted to present at the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017). paper
  • Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Amit Sheth, and Gong Cheng. 'Gleaning Types for Literals in RDF Triples with Application to Entity Summarization'. In Proceedings of the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016), 2016, pages 85-100. DOI=10.1007/978-3-319-34129-3_6 paper
  • Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, and Amit Sheth. 'FACES: Diversity-Aware Entity Summarization using Incremental Hierarchical Conceptual Clustering'. In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2015), AAAI, 2015. paper
  • Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Prateek Jain, Amit Sheth and Sanjaya Wijeratne. "A Statistical and Schema Independent Approach for Indentifying Equivalent Properties on Linked Data". In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems, ACM, 2013, pages 33-40. DOI=10.1145/2506182.2506187. paper
  • Kalpa Gunaratna, Sarasi Lalithsena and Amit Sheth. "Alignment and Dataset Identification of Linked Data in Semantic Web". Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (2014). paper
  • Kalpa Gunaratna. "Document Retrieval using Predication Similarity". Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine; 2014 (Technical Report). paper
  • Kalpa Gunaratna, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan and Amit Sheth. "Types of Property Pairs and Alignment on Linked Datasets - A Preliminary Analysis". In Proceedings of the I-SEMANTICS 2013 Posters & Demonstrations Track (ACM 2013), pp. 35-39, Messe Graz, Austria, 2013. paper

Edited Proceedigs
  • Andreas Thalhammer, Gong Cheng, Kalpa Gunaratna. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies (SumPre 2016) co-located with the 13th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2016), Greece, May 30, 2016. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1605, CEUR-WS.org 2016. proceedings link
  • Gong Cheng, Kalpa Gunaratna, Andreas Thalhammer, Heiko Paulheim, Martin Voigt, Roberto Garca. Joint Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Summarizing and Presenting Entities and Ontologies and the 3rd International Workshop on Human Semantic Web Interfaces (SumPre 2015, HSWI 2015) co-located with the 12th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2015), Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1, 2015. CEUR Workshop Proceedings 1556, CEUR-WS.org 2016. proceedings link