Projects
Explore research projects and associated collaborations by area. These pages retain the original project descriptions and documentation.
Knowledge Representation & Interoperability
Ontologies, formal semantics, data standards, and making information comparable across systems.
Core Domain Ontology
The Core Domain Ontology (CDO) specifies a protocol for a canonical semantic substrate.
CIDS - Common Impact Data Standard
The Common Impact Data Standard is a standardized way to represent a social purpose organization’s (SPO) impact model (i.e. their theory of change, logic mo...
OSSN - Ontology for Social Service Needs
The Ontology of Social Service Needs (OSSN) represents service provisioning from the perspective of a cognitive, goal-driven client to evaluate services bas...
Service Ontology
“What is a service?” The notion of “services” is inherently well understood by people, but it is difficult to define explicitly. The area of “service scienc...
AI & Computational Modeling
Explainable extraction, knowledge graph integration, agent models, and decision support.
Community Justice Advocate
The Community Justice Advocate (CJA) initiative addresses an important question: when we help someone navigate debt-related legal problems, how do we know w...
SMILE - SEmantIc roLe Extraction
The research question this proposal addresses is: Is it possible to create a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) system that can extract the components ...
PARLANCE - Data Integration Pipeline
The PARLANCE project is a pipeline that involves developing data translation and consolidation logic, enabling the merging of diverse data sources into a si...
BRAMA - Bounded Rational Agent Motivation Architecture
In classical AI planning, replanning strategies are used to reevaluate a plan during execution. For human-like agents, goal preferences and emotions play an...
Applied Data & Public Health
Data infrastructure and AI applications for communities, urban systems, and public health.
PHAC - Substance Use Monitoring
The objective is to develop an innovative NLP-based surveillance system to monitor substance-related harms in real-time. This AI-driven solution will gather...
CUDC - Canadian Urban Data Catalogue
The mission of the Canadian Urban Data Catalogue (CUDC) is to provide awareness of the vast array of urban and non-urban Canadian data by providing an open ...
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