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Dr Aisling Third

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  • Research Staff
  • Research Fellow
  • Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
  • Knowledge Media Institute
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Research groups

NameTypeParent Unit
CRC (LM & KT): Natural Language GenerationGroupFaculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology

 

Externally funded projects

SAGE-RAI: Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI
RoleStart dateEnd dateFunding source
Co-investigator01 Dec 202331 May 2025UK Research and Innovation;RAI UK Responsible AI UK

AIEd researchers have for decades been motivated by Bloom’s famous 1984 paper which found that students taught 1-to-1 performed 2 standard deviations better than students taught in a standard classroom setting, with the average 1-to-1 student performing better than 98% of the students taught in the control group. AI offers the potential to unlock low-cost personalised teaching to massively assist both students and teachers and dramatically improve learning outcomes. The advent of Generative AI has brought this dream closer and has captured the attention of many educators. For example, a recent study of more than 1,000 K-12 teachers and 1,000 students found that 51% of teachers reported using ChatGPT - 40% weekly. Interest and take-up is similar in the Higher Education Arena. For example, an analysis of eight Russell Group universities found that there were over 1 million visits to the ChatGPT site during December 2022 and January 2023. All of the above use is via a platform provided by a US company which has not been transparent on how the underlying Large Language Model was trained and for which there are a number of issues including: • Misinformation - responses may not be truthful. • Copyright - text may be generated which is similar to existing copyrighted content. • Bias - bias in training data may mean that responses replicate existing biases and prejudices. In SAGE-RAI we will build upon a number of existing proof of concept and pilot education-oriented Generative AI tools, created by the partners, to target Bloom’s 2 Sigma problem through Responsible AI whilst also addressing the issues raised above. In particular we will build a platform that can support assessment and provide student guidance through Responsible Generative AI.

Publications

Blockchain-based decentralised micro-accreditation for lifelong learning (2024)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Aisling and Domingue, John
Interactive Learning Environments, 33(3) (pp. 2201-2215)

Trust, Accountability, and Autonomy in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self-Determination (2023-12)
Ibáñez, Luis-Daniel; Domingue, John; Kirrane, Sabrina; Seneviratne, Oshani; Third, Aisling and Vidal, Maria-Esther
Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge, 1(1) (pp. 9:1-9:32)

Misogynoir: Challenges in Detecting Intersectional Hate (2022)
Kwarteng, Joseph; Coppolino Perfumi, Serena; Farrell, Tracie; Third, Aisling and Fernandez, Miriam
Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 12, Article 166(1)

Supporting Lifelong Learning with Smart Blockchain Badges (2020-12-30)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Allan; Chowdhury, Niaz; Bachler, Michelle and Domingue, John
International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, 13(3 & 4) (pp. 163-176)

A case study on the decentralisation of lifelong learning using blockchain technology (2020-12-02)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Allan and Domingue, John
Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2020, Article 23(1) (pp. 1-10)

COVID-19 Antibody Test/Vaccination Certification There’s an app for that (2020-06-01)
Eisenstadt, Marc; Ramachandran, Manoharan; Chowdhury, Niaz; Third, Allan and Domingue, John
IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1 (pp. 148-155)

Towards the Temporal Streaming of Graph Data on Distributed Ledgers (2017-11-08)
Third, Allan; Tiddi, Ilaria; Bastianelli, Emanuele; Valentine, Chris and Domingue, John
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10577 (pp. 327-332)

Integrated visualisation of wearable sensor data and risk models for individualised health monitoring and risk assessment to promote patient empowerment (2017-05)
Zhao, Youbing; Parvinzamir, Farzad; Wilson, Stephen; Wei, Hui; Deng, Zhikun; Portokallidis, Nick; Third, Allan; Drosatos, George; Liu, Enjie; Dong, Feng; Marozas, Vaidotas; Lukoševičius, Arūnas; Kaldoudi, Eleni and Clapworthy, Gordon
Journal of Visualization, 20(2) (pp. 405-413)

Visual Analytics for Health Monitoring and Risk Management in CARRE (2016-06-04)
Zhao, Youbing; Parvinzamir, Farzad; Wei, Hui; Liu, Enjie; Deng, Zhikun; Dong, Feng; Third, Allan; Lukoševičius, Arūnas; Marozas, Vaidotas; Kaldoudi, Eleni and Clapworthy, Gordon
E-Learning and Games; 10th International Conference, Edutainment 2016, Hangzhou, China, April 14-16, 2016, Revised Selected Papers, 9654 (pp. 380-391)

An Ontology Based Scheme for Formal Care Plan Meta-Description (2016)
Kaldoudi, Eleni; Drosatos, George; Portokallidis, Nick and Third, Allan
XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016: MEDICON 2016, March 31st–April 2nd 2016, Paphos, Cyprus, 57 (pp. 785-790)

Automating generation of textual class definitions from OWL to English (2011-05-17)
Stevens, Robert; Malone, James; Williams, Sandra; Power, Richard and Third, Allan
Journal of Biomedical Semantics, 2(S 2:S5)

Introduction to the special issue on the nature and scope of information (2010)
Black, Elizabeth; Floridi, Luciano and Third, Allan
Synthese, 175(Supp 1) (pp. 1-3)

More fragments of Language (2006)
Pratt-Hartmann, Ian and Third, Allan
Notre-Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 47(2) (pp. 151-177)

Decentralised Verification Technologies and the Web (2021-07-08)
Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In: Grech, Alex ed. Media, Technology and Education in a Post-Truth Society. Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy and Culture in Network Communication (pp. 255-269)
ISBN : 978-1-80043-907-8 | Publisher : Emerald Publishing Limited

Blockchain Applications in Lifelong Learning and the Role of the Semantic Blockchain (2020)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Allan; Domingue, John; Bachler, Michelle and Quick, Kevin
In: Sharma, Ramesh Chander; Yildirim, Hakan and Kurubacak, Gulsun eds. Blockchain Technology Applications in Education (pp. 16-41)
ISBN : 9781522594796 | Publisher : IGI Global

An ontology for grounding vague geographic terms (2008)
Bennett, B.; Mallenby, D. and Third, A.
In: Eschenbach, Carola and Grüninger, Michael eds. Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008) (pp. 280-293)
ISBN : 978-1-58603-923-3 | Publisher : IOS Press

Smart Assessment and Guided Education with Responsible AI (2024)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Domingue, John; Third, Aisling; Tarrant, David and Pieroni, Tom
In : 20th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2024) (10-13 Jun 2024, Thessaloniki, Greece) (pp. 17-26)

A Qualitative Study on Cultural Hegemony and the Impacts of AI (2024)
Brown, Venetia; Larasati, Retno; Third, Aisling and Farrell, Tracie
In : AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-24) (21-23 Oct 2024, San Jose, CA, USA) (pp. 226-238)

Annotators’ Perspectives: Exploring the Influence of Identity on Interpreting Misogynoir (2023-11-06)
Kwarteng, Joseph; Farrell, Tracie; Third, Aisling and Fernandez, Miriam
In : ASONAM 2023: The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (6-9 Nov 2023, Kusadasi, Turkey)

Ethics and Executability: Tracing Decency in Decentralised Knowledge Graph Applications (2023-07-19)
Third, Aisling and Domingue, John
In : ESWC 2023 Workshops and Tutorials. Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) (28-29 May 2023, Hersonissos, Greece)

Decency and Decentralisation: Verifiable Decentralised Knowledge Graph Querying (2023-04-30)
Third, Aisling and Domingue, John
In : WWW '23 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (30 Apr - 04 May 2023, Austin, Texas) (pp. 1432-1434)

Understanding Misogynoir: A Study of Annotators’ Perspectives (2023)
Kwarteng, Joseph; Farrell, Tracie; Third, Aisling; Burel, Gregoire and Fernandez, Miriam
In : 15th ACM Web Science Conference 2023 (WebSci ’23) (30 Apr - 01 May 2023, Evanston, TX, USA) (pp. 271-282)

Trusting Decentralised Knowledge Graphs and Web Data at the Web Conference (2023)
Domingue, John; Third, Aisling; Vidal, Maria-Esther; Rohde, Philipp; Cano, Juan; Cimmino, Andrea and Verborgh, Ruben
In : ACM Web Conference 2023 (30 Apr 2023-4 May 2023, Austin TX USA)

Using GitLab Interactions To Predict Student Success When Working As Part Of A Team (2021)
Ekuban, Audrey; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : ICL2020 (23 Sep - 25 Sep 2020) (pp. 127-138)

Towards Complete Decentralised Verification of Data with Confidentiality: Different ways to connect Solid Pods and Blockchain (2020)
Ramachandran, Manoharan; Chowdhury, Niaz; Third, Allan; Domingue, John; Quick, Kevin and Bachler, Michelle
In : A Decentralised Web Workshop (20-24 Apr 2020, Taipei, Taiwan) (pp. 645-649)

Towards A Blockchain-based Decentralised Educational Landscape (2020)
Chowdhury, Niaz; Ramachandran, Manoharan; Third, Allan; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Bachler, Michelle and Domingue, John
In : The Twelfth International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning (eLmL 2020) (21-25 Nov 2020, Valencia, Spain)

A Framework for Handling Internet of Things Data with Confidentiality and Blockchain Support (2020)
Ramachandran, Manoharan; Chowdhury, Niaz; Third, Allan; Jan, Zeeshan; Valentine, Chris and Domingue, John
In : IoT4Safe, in conj. with Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2020 (31 May - 1 Jun, Heraklion, Greece)

The FAIR TRADE Framework for Assessing Decentralised Data Solutions (2019)
Domingue, John; Third, Allan and Ramachandran, Manoharan
In : WWW 2019 workshop: Linked Data on the Web and its Relationship with Distributed Ledgers (LDOW/LDDL) (13 May 2019, San Francisco, USA) (pp. 866-882)

An Open Networking Lab for practical open education (2019)
Kear, Karen; Smith, Andrew; Donelan, Helen; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Jones, Allan; Rosewell, Jonathan; Wermelinger, Michel; Connolly, Teresa; Sanders, Chris; Peasgood, Alice; Williams, Judith; Moss, Nicky and Third, Allan
In : OER19: Recentering Open (10-11 Apr 2019, National University of Ireland, Galway)

ADA: A System for Automating the Learning Data Analytics Processing Life Cycle (2019)
Celik, Dilek; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Hlosta, Martin; Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : EC-TEL 2019 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (16-19 Sep 2019, Delft, Netherlands) (pp. 714-718)

LinkChains: Trusted Personal Linked Data (2019)
Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : Blockchain-enabled Semantic Web (27 Oct 2019, Auckland, New Zealand)

Decentralising online education using blockchain technology (2019)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference: Blended and online education within European university networks (16-18 Oct 2019, UNED, Madrid)

The Open Networking Lab: Hands-on Vocational Learning in Computer Networking (2018-10)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Kear, Karen; Smith, Andrew; Jones, Allan; Rosewell, Jonathan; Donelan, Helen; Wermelinger, Michel; Sanders, Chris; Third, Allan and Connolly, Teresa
In : IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (3-6 Oct 2018, San Jose, California, USA)

Open Networking Lab: online practical learning of computer networking (2018-10)
Rosewell, Jonathan; Kear, Karen; Jones, Allan; Smith, Andrew; Donelan, Helen; Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Peasgood, Alice; Sanders, Chris; Third, Allan; Wermelinger, Michel; Moss, Nicky; Williams, Judith and Connolly, Teresa
In : The Online, Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference: Blended and online Learning: Changing the Educational Landscape (10-12 Oct 2018, Aarhus University, Denmark)

ScienceMiles: Digital Currency for Researchers (2018-04-23)
Jan, Zeeshan; Third, Allan; Ibanez, Luis-Daniel; Bachler, Michelle; Simperl, Elena and Domingue, John
In : International World Wide Web Conference (23-27 Apr 2018, Lyon, France) (pp. 1183-1187)

The Open Networking Lab: an open online course for experiential learning of computer networking (2018)
Kear, Karen; Smith, Andrew; Mikroyannidis, Alex; Jones, Allan; Rosewell, Jon; Donelan, Helen; Wermelinger, Michel; Sanders, Chris; Third, Allan and Connolly, Teresa
In : Association for Learning Technology (ALT) annual conference 2018 (11-13 Sep 2018, Manchester)

Peer-reviews on the blockchain (2018)
Jan, Zeeshan; Third, Allan; Bachler, Michelle and Domingue, John
In : RefResh 2018: 1st Workshop on Reframing Research (5 Dec 2018, Cologne, Germany)

The Irrefutable History of You: Distributed Ledgers and Semantics for Ubiquitous Personal Ratings (2017-10-22)
Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : Re-coding Black Mirror 2017 Workshop (22 Oct 2017, Vienna, Austria)

Linked Data Indexing of Distributed Ledgers (2017)
Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : LD-DL@WWW 1st International Workshop on Linked Data and Distributed Ledgers (03-07 Apr 2017, Perth, Australia) (pp. 1431-1436)

LinkChains: Exploring the space of decentralised trustworthy Linked Data (2017)
Third, Allan and Domingue, John
In : Decentralising the Semantic Web (28 Jul 2017, Vienna, Austria)

Integrating Medical Scientific Knowledge with the Semantically Quantified Self (2016-09-23)
Third, Allan; Gkotsis, George; Kaldoudi, Eleni; Drosatos, George; Portokallidis, Nick; Roumeliotis, Stefanos; Pafili, Kalliopi and Domingue, John
In : 15th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2016 (17-21 Oct 2016, Kobe, Japan) (pp. 566-580)

Online Learning and Experimentation via Interactive Learning Resources (2015)
Mikroyannidis, Alexander; Domingue, John; Third, Allan; Smith, Andrew and Guarda, Nuno
In : The 3rd Experiment@International Conference (2-4 Jun 2015, Ponta Delgada, São Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal)

Capturing Scientific Knowledge on Medical Risk Factors (2015)
Third, Allan; Kaldoudi, Eleni; Gkotsis, George; Roumeliotis, Stefanos; Pafili, Kalliope and Domingue, John
In : 8th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2015) (7-10 Oct 2015, Palisades, NY)

How easy is it to learn a controlled natural language for building a knowledge base? (2014-08-22)
Williams, Sandra; Power, Richard and Third, Allan
In : Fourth Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (20-22 Aug 2014, Galway, Ireland) (pp. 20-32)

“Hidden semantics”: what can we learn from the names in an ontology? (2012-05)
Third, Allan
In : 7th International Natural Language Generation Conference (30 May - 2 Jun 2012, Utica, IL, USA)

OWL to English: a tool for generating organised easily-navigated hypertexts from ontologies (2011-10-23)
Third, Allan; Williams, Sandra and Power, Richard
In : 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2011) (23-27 Oct 2011, Bonn, Germany)

Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation (2011-09-30)
Williams, Sandra; Third, Allan and Power, Richard
In : 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (28-30 Sep 2011, Nancy, France)

Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice (2010)
Power, Richard and Third, Allan
In : Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (23-27 Aug 2010, Beijing, China)

An argumentation approach to vagueness (2009)
Third, A.
In : Proceedings of the 2009 European Conference in Computing and Philosophy (2-4 Jul 2009, Barcelona)

Architecture for a grounded ontology of geographic information (2007)
Third, Allan; Bennett, Brandon and Mallenby, David
In : (GEOS 2007) Second International Conference on GeoSpatial Semantics (29-30 Nov 2007, Mexico City, Mexico)

Automatic grounding of vague geographic ontology in data (2007)
Third, Allan; Bennett, Brandon and Mallenby, David
In : Geocomputation 2007 (03-05 Sep 2007, Maynooth, Ireland)

The expressive power of restricted fragments of English (2005)
Third, Allan
In : 5th International Conference on Logical Aspects of Computational Linguistics, LACL 2005 (28-30 Apr 2005, Bordeaux, France)

The Nature and Scope of Information (Special Issue of Synthese) (2010)
Black, E.; Floridi, L. and Third, A.
Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg.