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The University of Western Australia

Natural & Technical Language Processing Group

Collaborations

Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science

Several members of the UWA team are also members of, or funded by, the CTMTDS . They make up a lot of Theme 1 of the Centre and focus on the application of NLP, Knowledge Graphs and Ontologies to industrial maintenance data and problems.

Industrial Ontology Foundry

A number of members of the UWA team are involved in the Industrial Ontology Foundry (IOF) and coordinate the Maintenance Working Group within the IOF.
Caitlin Wood, Thomas Smoker and Melinda Hodkiewicz were all involved in the organisation of, and presented at, the Industrial Industries Ontology Workshop in Norway February 2019.

NIST, USA

Members of the UWA team have collaborated with the personnel in the Model-Based Enterprise Program in the US Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology on Technical Language Processing since 2018 with Melinda Hodkiewicz having a Visiting Fellowship there at the end of 2019.

Ontology-explained Blog

Members of the UWA NLP-TLP and UWA System Health teams author Ontology-explained, a community outreach program for engineers interested in ontologies.

Sirius Centre, Norway

There is on-going work between the UWA team and the Sirius Centre in Norway. Our collaboration is towards deployment of ontologies to support digitalisation in the oil and gas industry.

The Alan Turing Institute, United Kingdom

There are ongoing links between the UWA and the Alan Turing Institute with Melinda Hodkiewicz's Visiting Turing Fellowship for the Siri for Maintenance project in 2018 proving to be an important influence in the early days of our interest in ontologies here at UWA.

TLP Community of Practice

UWA is part of the initial group supporting the NIST team leading the launching of a global community of practice for Technical Language Processing. More information here.

Water Corporation

The UWA NLP-TLP Group is currently engaged in a CEED Project with the Water Corporation that aims to identify problems, causes and remedies from maintenance work orders in order to improve asset life estimation.