Andrés García-Silva
Post-Doc
Office 3204 - Facultad de Informática
Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, España
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Andrés García-Silva is a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The Spanish ministry of science and innovation granted him a 4 year fellowship to carry out his PhD studies in the Ontology Engineering Group. Previously, the Santander Bank and the UPM granted him a fellowship to carry out his Master studies on Artificial intelligence.
Andrés has previously worked as database administrator, intelligence business engineer and software developer. He obtained a BSc in computer Science (2001) from the Universidad del Valle in Colombia, where his final project was graded with the highest and laurate. Soon after, he received a Specialization in Business Administration (2005) from the Universidad ICESI in Colombia. More recently he got his MSc in Artificial Intelligence (2008) from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain where his final project was graded with the highest.
His research interests are focus on Semantic Web, Folksonomies, Social Web, Knowledge Engineering, among others. Andrés has participated in several European research proyects such as SEEMP and NeOn as well as in national projects such as Geobuddies and España Virtual.
Projects
In the context of his research lines, nowadays he is participating in the following research projects:
- GeoBuddies. Anotación semántica colaborativa con dispositivos móviles en el Camino de Santiago (TSI2007-65677-C02-01)
- España Virtual (ALT0317)
He has also participated in the following projects, some of which have had a large impact in the aforementioned research areas:
- NeOn. Lifecycle Support for Networked Ontologies. Integrated Project (IST-2005-027595).
- Single European Employment Market-Place SEEMP (IST-4-027347-STP)
Publications
His most relevant publications (books, chapters, articles, etc):
- Review of the State of the art: Discovering and Associating Semantics to Tags in Folksonomies. García-Silva A., Corcho O., Alani H., Gómez-Perez A. The Knowledge Engineering Review. (To be published)
- Preliminary Results in Tag Disambiguation using DBpedia. García-Silva, A., Szomszor, M., Alani, H., Corcho, O. In 1st International Workshop in Collective Knowledge Capturing and Representation (CKCaR'09), California, USA, (Sep, 2009)
- A Pattern Based Approach for Re-engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies. García-Silva, A., Gómez-Pérez, A., Suárez-Figueroa, M. C., Villazón-Terrazas B. In Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC). Bangkok, Thailand. (Nov, 2008)
- Content Annotation in the Future Web. García-Castro, R., García-Silva, A., UPGRADE, The European Journal for the Informatics Professional, vol X (1), (Feb, 2009)
- Construcción de ontologías a partir de tesauros. Vilches Blázquez, L.M.; García-Silva, A.; Villazón Terrazas, B. Semántica Espacial y descubrimiento de conocimientos para desarrollo sostenible, 59-78 ISBN 978-959-261-282-2 (2009)
A complete list of publications can be found here.
