Simon Price

Machine Learning Research Student

Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
The Merchant Venturers Building, Intelligent Systems Lab
Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UB
United Kingdom

Phone: +44-117-33-14310 (ILRT)
Fax: +44-117-954-5208
Email: Simon.Price@bristol.ac.uk

Research Interests

• Data integration
• Learning from structured data
• Semantic Web (Web 3.0)
• Exabye Informatics

Current Activities

Student Projects

Co-supervisor on various Exabyte Informatics projects for MSc, MEng and BSc students.

• Web Development: Profiling with SubSift (with Peter Flach)
• Web Development: Yahoo Pipes Compiler (with Peter Flach)
• Web Development: User Interface for Exabyte Portal (with Tilo Burghardt)

Research

• Part-time postgraduate research student (since 2003)
• Thesis title: Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data
• Advisor: Professor Peter Flach

Research Groups

• Machine Learning and Biological Computation Group
• Intelligent Systems Group
• Web Futures Group

Teaching

Occassional teaching related activities include: supervision of projects, preparation and marking of assignments.

• Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming (undergraduate/MSc)
• Introduction to Machine Learning (MEng/MSc)
• Advanced Topics in Machine Learning and Data Mining (MSc)
• Advanced Computing MSc in Machine Learning and Data Mining

Peer Review

Reviewed paper submissions for the following books, journals, conferences and workshops:

• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS)
• Book - Logical and Relational Learning: From ILP to MRDM, De Raedt, Luc, 2008, Springer
• ICDM 2007 - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• ICML 2007 - International Conference on Machine Learning
• ICDM 2006 - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
• MLG 2006 - Mining and Learning with Graphs workshop at ECML PKDD
• Fundamenta Informaticae Vol. 66 (2005) Special issue on Advances in Mining Graphs, Trees and Sequences
• IDA 2005 - International Symposium on Intelligent Data Analysis

Publications

Publications from my PhD research are listed below. Various others are listed in the departmental publications database here and ILRT database here.

• Price, S. and Flach, P., Querying and merging heterogeneous data by approximate joins on higher-order terms. Proceedings 18th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-2008), Prague, Czech Republic, pp.226-243, September 2008, LNCS/LNAI. Springer-Verlag, 2008. (PDF, Bibtex, DOI)
• Price, S.N., A Review of the State of the Art of Machine Learning on the Semantic Web: Technical Report CSTR-05-003, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, October 2004. (PDF, Bibtex)
• Price, S.N., A Review of the State of the Art of Machine Learning on the Semantic Web, Proceedings of 2003 UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, pp.292-299, September 2003. (PDF, Bibtex)

ILRT

I am a Senior Technical Researcher at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology (ILRT) where I work on:

• Web innovation projects, most recently SubSift.
• Semantic Web projects, most recently Visualising China and STARS.
• Large-scale Web applications, such as Bristol Online Surveys.
• eLearning, online assessment and multimedia applications, particularly using ToolBook. Most recently, EELS.