Alan L. Rector

Alan L. Rector, Sebastian Brandt, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, Colin Puleston, Robert Stevens: Engineering use cases for modular development of ontologies in OWL. Applied Ontology 7(2): 113-132 (2012)

Eleni Mikroyannidi, Robert Stevens, Luigi Iannone, Alan L. Rector: Analysing Syntactic Regularities and Irregularities in SNOMED-CT. J. Biomedical Semantics 3: 8 (2012)

Alan L. Rector, Luigi Iannone: Lexically suggest, logically define: Quality assurance of the use of qualifiers and expected results of post-coordination in SNOMED CT. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 45(2): 199-209 (2012)

Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott, Alan L. Rector: OntoVerbal: a Protégé plugin for verbalising ontology classes. ICBO 2012

Patrice Seyed, Alan L. Rector, Uli Sattler, Bijan Parsia, Robert Stevens: Representation of Part-Whole Relationships in SNOMED CT. ICBO 2012

Alan L. Rector, Sam Brandt, Thomas Schneider: Getting the foot out of the pelvis: modeling problems affecting use of SNOMED CT hierarchies in practical applications. JAMIA 18(4): 432-440 (2011)

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Using OWL ontologies for adaptive patient information modelling and preoperative clinical decision support. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 29(2): 405-418 (2011)

Shao Fen Liang, Robert Stevens, Donia Scott, Alan L. Rector: Automatic Verbalisation of SNOMED Classes Using OntoVerbal. AIME 2011: 338-342

Guoqian Jiang, Harold R. Solbrig, Robert J. G. Chalmers, Kent A. Spackman, Alan L. Rector, Christopher G. Chute: A Case Study of ICD-11 Anatomy Value Set Extraction from SNOMED CT. ICBO 2011

Alan L. Rector, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens: Quality assurance of the content of a large DL-based terminology using mixed lexical and semantic criteria: experience with SNOMED CT. K-CAP 2011: 57-64

Fennie Liang, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector: OntoVerbal-M: a Multilingual Verbaliser for SNOMED CT. MSW 2011: 13-24

Eleni Mikroyannidi, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector: Inspecting Regularities in Ontology Design Using Clustering. International Semantic Web Conference (1) 2011: 438-453

Eleni Mikroyannidi, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector: Inspecting regularities and irregularities in SNOMED-CT. SWAT4LS 2011: 76-83

Jay (Subbarao) Kola, Jonathan Harris, Stephen Lawrie, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Maryann E. Martone: Towards an ontology for psychosis. Cognitive Systems Research 11(1): 42-52 (2010)

Jesualdo Tomás Fernández-Breis, Luigi Iannone, Ignazio Palmisano, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens: Enriching the Gene Ontology via the Dissection of Labels Using the Ontology Pre-processor Language. EKAW 2010: 59-73

Luigi Iannone, Ignazio Palmisano, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens: Assessing the Safety of Knowledge Patterns in OWL Ontologies. ESWC (1) 2010: 137-151

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Experience of Using OWL Ontologies for Automated Inference of Routine Pre-operative Screening Tests. International Semantic Web Conference (2) 2010: 50-65

Alan L. Rector, R. Qamar, T. Marley: Binding ontologies and coding systems to electronic health records and messages. Applied Ontology 4(1): 51-69 (2009)

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Development of an ontology for a preoperative risk assessment clinical decision support system. CBMS 2009: 1-6

Luigi Iannone, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens: Embedding Knowledge Patterns into OWL. ESWC 2009: 218-232

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Semi-automatic Generation of a Patient Preoperative Knowledge-Base from a Legacy Clinical Database. OTM Conferences (2) 2009: 1224-1237

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: A Hybrid Architecture for a Preoperative Decision Support System Using a Rule Engine and a Reasoner on a Clinical Ontology. RR 2009: 242-253

Alan L. Rector, Sebastian Brandt: Viewpoint Paper: Why Do It the Hard Way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED. JAMIA 15(6): 744-751 (2008)

Alan L. Rector, Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond: Building Modular Ontologies and Specifying Ontology Joining, Binding, Localizing and Programming Interfaces in Ontologies Implemented in OWL. AAAI Spring Symposium: Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering 2008: 69-73

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Gathering Precise Patient Medical History with an Ontology-Driven Adaptive Questionnaire. CBMS 2008: 539-541

Mikel Egaña, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Erick Antezana: Applying Ontology Design Patterns in Bio-ontologies. EKAW 2008: 7-16

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Ontology-Driven Adaptive Medical Information Collection System. ISMIS 2008: 574-584

Alan L. Rector, Sebastian Brandt, Jay Kola: Why do it the hard way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED. KR-MED 2008

Rahil Qamar Siddiqui, Jay Kola, Alan L. Rector: Interoperability of Data Models and Terminology Models : Issues with using the SNOMED CT terminology. KR-MED 2008

Pierre Lewalle, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Pieter E. Zanstra, Bedirhan Ustun, Dipak Kalra, György Surján, Alan L. Rector, Veli N. Stroetmann, Martti Virtanen: A Deployment and Research Roadmap for Semantic Interoperability: the EU SemanticHEALTH project. MIE 2008: 635-640

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane, Alan L. Rector, Martin Hurrell: Using Ontologies for an Intelligent Patient Modelling, Adaptation and Management System. OTM Conferences (2) 2008: 1458-1470

Luigi Iannone, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens: Augmenting the Expressivity of the Ontology Pre-Processor Language. OWLED 2008

Luigi Iannone, Alan L. Rector: Calculations in OWL. OWLED 2008

Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens: Barriers to the use of OWL in Knowledge Driven Applications. OWLED 2008

Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Nick Drummond: What Causes Pneumonia? The Case for a Standard Semantics for "may" in OWL. OWLED 2008

Colin Puleston, Bijan Parsia, James Cunningham, Alan L. Rector: Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL. International Semantic Web Conference 2008: 130-145

Ning Zhang, Li Yao, Aleksandra Nenadic, Jay Chin, Carole A. Goble, Alan L. Rector, David W. Chadwick, Sassa Otenko, Qi Shi: Achieving fine-grained access control in virtual organizations. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 19(9): 1333-1352 (2007)

Robert Stevens, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Katy Wolstencroft, Ulrike Sattler, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, Alan L. Rector: Using OWL to model biological knowledge. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 65(7): 583-594 (2007)

Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector: A methodology for asynchronous multi-user editing of semantic web ontologies. K-CAP 2007: 127-134

Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector: The State of Multi-User Ontology Engineering. WoMO 2007

Alan L. Rector: What's in a code? Towards a Formal Account of the Relation of Ontologies and Coding Systems. MedInfo 2007: 730-734

Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers, Thomas Bittner: Granularity, scale and collectivity: When size does and does not matter. Journal of Biomedical Informatics 39(3): 333-349 (2006)

Adel Taweel, Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers: A Collaborative Biomedical Research System. J. UCS 12(1): 80-98 (2006)

Yimin Wang, York Sure, Robert Stevens, Alan L. Rector: Knowledge Elicitation Plug-In for Protégé: Card Sorting and Laddering. ASWC 2006: 552-565

Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector: Representing Transitive Propagation in OWL. ER 2006: 255-266

Jeremy Rogers, Colin Puleston, Alan L. Rector: The CLEF Chronicle: Patient Histories Derived from Electronic Health Records. ICDE Workshops 2006: 109

Alan L. Rector: Users Are Always Right ... Even When They Are Wrong: Making Knowledge Representation Useful and Usable. KR 2006: 4

Alan L. Rector, R. Qamar, T. Marley: Binding Ontologies & Coding Systems to Electronic Health Records and Messages. KR-MED 2006

Jean Marie Rodrigues, Alan L. Rector, Pieter E. Zanstra, Robert H. Baud, Kerry Innes, Jeremy Rogers, Anne-Marie Rassinoux, Stefan Schulz, Béatrice Trombert Paviot, Huib ten Napel, Lucienne Clavel, Egbert J. van der Haring, Ceu Mateus: An Ontology driven collaborative development for biomedical terminologies: from the French CCAM to the Australian ICHI coding system. MIE 2006: 863-868

Nick Drummond, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Georgina Moulton, Matthew Horridge, Hai Wang, Julian Seidenberg: Putting OWL in Order: Patterns for Sequences in OWL. OWLED 2006

Matthew Horridge, Nick Drummond, John Goodwin, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Hai Wang: The Manchester OWL Syntax. OWLED 2006

Alan L. Rector, Jeremy Rogers: Ontological and Practical Issues in Using a Description Logic to Represent Medical Concept Systems: Experience from GALEN. Reasoning Web 2006: 197-231

Julian Seidenberg, Alan L. Rector: Web ontology segmentation: analysis, classification and use. WWW 2006: 13-22

Tim Dornan, Catherine Lee, Adam Stopford, Liam Hosie, Neil Maredia, Alan L. Rector: Rapid application design of an electronic clinical skills portfolio for undergraduate medical students. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine 78(1): 25-33 (2005)

Holger Knublauch, Matthew Horridge, Mark A. Musen, Alan L. Rector, Robert Stevens, Nick Drummond, Phillip W. Lord, Natalya Fridman Noy, Julian Seidenberg, Hai Wang: The Protege OWL Experience. OWLED 2005

Hai Wang, Matthew Horridge, Alan L. Rector, Nick Drummond, Julian Seidenberg: Debugging OWL-DL Ontologies: A Heuristic Approach. International Semantic Web Conference 2005: 745-757

Ning Zhang, Li Yao, Jay Chin, Aleksandra Nenadic, A. McNab, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Qi Shi: Plugging a Scalable Authentication Framework into Shibboleth. WETICE 2005: 271-276

Ning Zhang, Jay Chin, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Y. Li: Towards an Authentication Middleware to Support Ubiquitous Web Access. COMPSAC Workshops 2004: 36-38

Holger Knublauch, Mark A. Musen, Alan L. Rector: Editing Description Logic Ontologies with the Protégé OWL Plugin. Description Logics 2004

Alan L. Rector, Nick Drummond, Matthew Horridge, Jeremy Rogers, Holger Knublauch, Robert Stevens, Hai Wang, Chris Wroe: OWL Pizzas: Practical Experience of Teaching OWL-DL: Common Errors & Common Patterns. EKAW 2004: 63-81

Alan L. Rector: Defaults, Context, and Knowledge: Alternatives for OWL-Indexed Knowledge Bases. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2004: 226-237

Alan L. Rector: Medical Informatics. Description Logic Handbook 2003: 406-426

Alan L. Rector: Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL. K-CAP 2003: 121-128

Alan L. Rector: AIM: a personal view of where I have been and where we might be going. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 23(1): 111-127 (2001)

Nicholas R. Hardiker, Alan L. Rector: Research Paper: Structural Validation of Nursing Terminologies. JAMIA 8(3): 212-221 (2001)

Alan L. Rector, Peter D. Johnson, Samson W. Tu, Chris Wroe, Jeremy Rogers: Interface of Inference Models with Concept and Medical Record Models. AIME 2001: 314-323

Alan L. Rector, Chris Wroe, Jeremy Rogers, Angus Roberts: Untangling taxonomies and relationships: personal and practical problems in loosely coupled development of large ontologies. K-CAP 2001: 139-146

Nicholas R. Hardiker, Alan L. Rector: Research Paper: Modeling Nursing Terminology Using the GRAIL Representation Language. JAMIA 5(1): 120-128 (1998)

Alan L. Rector, Pieter E. Zanstra, W. D. Solomon, Jeremy Rogers, Robert H. Baud, Werner Ceusters, A. M. W. Claassen, J. Kirby, Jean Marie Rodrigues, Angelo Rossi Mori, Egbert J. van der Haring, J. Wagner: Reconciling users' needs and formal requirements: issues in developing a reusable ontology for medicine. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine 2(4): 229-242 (1998)

Alan L. Rector, Sean Bechhofer, Carole A. Goble, Ian Horrocks, W. A. Nowlan, W. D. Solomon: The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 9(2): 139-171 (1997)

Ian Horrocks, Alan L. Rector: Using a Description Logic with Concept Inclusions. Description Logics 1996: 132-135

Ian Horrocks, Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble: A Description Logic Based Schema for the Classification of Medical Data. KRDB 1996

Alan L. Rector: Coordinating Taxonomies: Key to Re-Usable Concept Representations. AIME 1995: 17-28

David Haw, Carole A. Goble, Alan L. Rector: The Pragmatics of Naive Database Enquiry. BNCOD 1995: 79-100

David Haw, Carole A. Goble, Alan L. Rector: GUIDANCE: Making it Easy for the USer to be an Expert. IDS 1994: 25-48

Carole A. Goble, Andrzej J. Glowinski, W. A. Nowlan, Alan L. Rector: A Descriptive Semantic Formalism for Medicine. ICDE 1993: 624-631

Alan L. Rector, Bernard Horan, M. Fitter, S. Kay, P. D. Newton, W. A. Nowlan, D. Robinson, A. Wilson: User centered development of a general practice medical workstation: the PEN&PAD experience. CHI 1992: 447-453

Alan L. Rector, Carole A. Goble, Bernard Horan, T. J. Howkins, S. Kay, W. A. Nowlan, A. Wilson: Shedding Light on Patients' Problems: Integrating Knowledge Based Systems into Medical Practice. ECAI 1990: 531-534

Bernard Horan, Alan L. Rector, E. L. Sneath, Carole A. Goble, T. J. Howkins, S. Kay, W. A. Nowlan, A. Wilson: Supporting a humanly impossible task: The clinical human computer environment. INTERACT 1990: 247-252

Alan L. Rector: Helping with a Humanly Impossible Task: Integrating Knowledge Based Systems into Clinical Care. SCAI 1989: 453-465

D. C. Dodson, Alan L. Rector: "Logal": Algorithmic Control Structures for Prolog. IJCAI 1983: 536-538