I am part of the Dumontier Lab - Semantic Web Group working under the supervision of Dr. Michel Dumontier. My current research is the semi-automated creation of Semantic Web knowledge bases for Biological research.

I have previously worked in the areas of Robotics, Evolutionary Computation, Data Mining and other related AI areas.

Selected Publications


Journal papers

  • M. Dumontier, L. Ferres, N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Modeling and Querying Graphical Representations of Statistical Data" 2009. Journal of Web Semantics. Accepted
  • M. Dumontier, N Villanueva-Rosales."Towards Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Discovery on the Semantic Web" 2009. Briefings in Bioinformatics. [Website]
  • N. Villanueva-Rosales and M. Dumontier. "yOWL: an Ontology-Driven Knowledge Base for Yeast Biologists" 2008. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. [Website]

Refereed conference/workshop papers

  • N. Villanueva-Rosales, M. Dumontier. "Semi-automated Extraction of Biological Knowledge Bases using Semantic Web" 2009. 2nd Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium (CSWWS09), Kelowna, Canada. [PDF]
  • M. Dumontier, L. Ferres, N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Semantic Annotation and Question Answering of Statistical Graphs" 2008. 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008), Mexico City, Mexico. [Website]
  • N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Semi-automated Building of Semantic Web Knowledge Bases for Biological Research" 2008. 7th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2008) Doctoral Consortium, Mexico City, Mexico.[Website]
  • M. Dumontier and N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Modeling Life Science Knowledge with OWL 1.1" 2008. OWL Experiences and Design (OWLED-DC 2008), Washington DC, USA. [PDF]
  • M. Dumontier, M. Faizan, Joseph Obeng and N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Modeling the Pharmacogenomics of Depression with OWL 1.1" 2008. Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS 2008), colocated with World Wide Web Conference (WWW2008), Beijing, China.[PDF]
  • N. Villanueva-Rosales and M. Dumontier. "Three-Layer OWL Ontology Design". 2007. Second International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, Whistler, Canada. [PDF]
  • L. Ferres, M. Dumontier and N. Villanueva-Rosales. "Semantic Query Answering with Time-Series Graphs". 2007. The 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2007), Annapolis, USA. [Website]
  • A. De Leon-Battista, N. Villanueva-Rosales, M. Palenychka, and M. Dumontier. "SMART: A Web-Based, Ontology-Driven, Semantic Web Query Answering Application". 2007. Semantic Web Challenge, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2007), Busan, South Korea. [PDF]
  • N. Villanueva-Rosales and M. Dumontier. "Describing chemical functional groups in OWL-DL for the classification of chemical compounds". 2007. OWL: Experiences and Directions (OWLED 2007), Innsbruck, Austria. [PDF]
  • N. Villanueva-Rosales, K. Osbahr and M. Dumontier. "Towards a Semantic Knowledge Base for Yeast Biologists". 2007. First International Workshop on Health Care and Life Sciences Data Integration for the Semantic Web (HCLS-DI 2007), colocated with World Wide Web Conference (WWW2007), Banff, Canada. [PDF]

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