Conceptual Modeling Research

• Conceptual Modeling, Semantic Web, Ontologies
• Dialogism and ontologies
• E-Learning, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Text mining, Conversation analysis, Metaphor understanding
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Hermeneutic Computer Science
• Philosophy and computer science

Projects :

1. TOWNTOLOGY - COST UCE Action C21
2. "Information and Knowledge Fusion" (IKF), EU Eureka project 2235 (2001-2004)
3. LARFLAST (Learning Foreign Language Scientific Terminology, Copernicus Project  1998-2000)
4. Hermenophorical environments
5. ITS for teaching algorithms and data structures
6. Automatic programming (program generation from specifications and intelligent reverse engineering).
7. Knowledge Acquisition (KA). The modeling point of view of KA is considered. An integrated KA system for operationalization of CommonKADS designs with a KL-ONE-like language and considering HCI was developed under the PEKADS project (a COPERNICUS project of the European Commission).