Sheila Kinsella

Sheila Kinsella

Ph.D. Student @
DERI, NUI Galway
IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan,
Galway, Ireland
Email:
sheila.kinsella@deri.org
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+353 91 495017
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Bio

Sheila Kinsella is a Ph.D. student at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), National University of Ireland, Galway under the supervision of John Breslin. She is a member of the Social Software unit. Her research activities focus on applying Semantic Web technologies to study user-generated content.

During her graduate studies she has at been a research intern at Yahoo! Labs Barcelona and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and an associate researcher with IBM's Centre for Advanced Studies in Dublin. She graduated from the National University of Ireland, Galway in 2006 and received a BE degree with 1st class honours in Electronic and Computer Engineering.

Publications

2010:

Social People-Tagging vs. Social Bookmark-Tagging.
Peyman Nasirifard, Sheila Kinsella, Krystian Samp, Stefan Decker.
The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW 2010), Lisbon, Portugal. Springer. (to be published)

Using Hyperlinks to Enrich Message Board Content with Linked Data.
Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin.
6th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS 2010), Graz, Austria. ACM. (to be published)

Ten Years of Hyperlinks in Online Conversations. PDF
Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin.
Poster, Web Science Conference (WebSci10), Raleigh, NC, USA.

Understanding Online Communities by Using Semantic Web Technologies.
Alexandre Passant, Sheila Kinsella, Uldis Bojars, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker.
In Ben Kei Daniel (ed.), Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena. IGI Global. (to be published)

2009:

Implementing Semantic Web applications: reference architecture and challenges. PDF
Benjamin Heitmann, Sheila Kinsella, Conor Hayes, Stefan Decker.
5th International Workshop on Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering (SWESE 2009) at the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Chantilly, VA, USA. CEUR-WS.org. (Best paper award)

Using Naming Authority to Rank Data and Ontologies for Web Search. PDF
Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella, Stefan Decker.
The 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Chantilly, VA, USA. Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04930-9_18

The Future of Social Websites: Sharing Data and Trusted Applications with Semantics.
Sheila Kinsella, Alexandre Passant, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker, Ajit Jaokar.
In Marvin Zelkowitz (ed.), Advances in Computers, 76. Elsevier.
doi:10.1016/S0065-2458(09)01004-3

2008:

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and back - How did your Grandma use to tag? PDF
Sheila Kinsella, Adriana Budura, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Sebastian Michel, John G. Breslin, Karl Aberer.
The 10th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2008) at the 17th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2008), Napa Valley, CA, USA. ACM.
doi:10.1145/1458502.1458516

Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects.
Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, John G. Breslin.
In Thomas Friemel (ed.), Why Context Matters: Applications of Social Network Analysis. VS Verlag.
doi:10.1007/978-3-531-91184-7_5

Applications of Semantic Web Methodologies and Techniques to Social Networks and Social Websites.
Sheila Kinsella, John G. Breslin, Alexandre Passant, Stefan Decker.
In Cristina Baroglio, Piero A. Bonatti, Jan Maluszynski, Massimo Marchiori, Axel Polleres, Sebastian Schaffert (ed.), Reasoning Web, Fourth International Summer School 2008. Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-85658-0_5

An Interactive Map of Semantic Web Ontology Usage. PDF
Sheila Kinsella, Uldis Bojars, Andreas Harth, John G. Breslin, Stefan Decker.
The 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV08), London, UK. IEEE Computer Society.
doi:10.1109/IV.2008.60

2007:

Navigating and Annotating Semantically-Enabled Networks of People and Associated Objects. PDF
Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, Alexander Troussov, Mikhail Sogrin, John Judge, Conor Hayes, John G. Breslin.
The 4th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007), University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Network Analysis of Semantic Connections in Heterogenous Social Spaces. PDF
Sheila Kinsella, Andreas Harth, John G. Breslin.
Extended Abstract, UK Social Network Conference, London, UK.

An Empirical Investigation of Social Networks in the Blogosphere. PDF
Uldis Bojars, Andreas Harth, Sheila Kinsella, Srinivas Raghavendra.
Poster, The 1st International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2007), Boulder, CO, USA.

2006:

Online Measurement of Entanglement of a Quantum State.
Sheila Kinsella.
Bachelor of Electronic & Computer Engineering, Final Year Project Report. HTM PDF

Professional Activities & Awards Received

Program Committee Member

Reviewer

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