Dear Education Committee,
we are collecting information to estimate the figures and prepare the
school budget.
In the meanwhile, we have made some progress about the structure of
the school.
Pls, react quickly and, if you do not like something, suggest
improvements o propose an alternative.
In particular, we must be able to contact people quickly.
Ideally, we should send out emails to the lecturers by mid of January.
Our plan is to have an introduction day to help the students to
understand the general domain, and then regular courses for the rest
of the week. Below you can find courses and proposed lecturers.
All this is indicative, so feel free to suggest change of topic/title.
Most importantly, the quality of the lecturers is crucial. We would
like the lecturers to interact with the students and with each other.
They should follow the other courses, be open-minded and ready to pick
up from their perspective issues risen during the week.
The people proposed below are ok (we think) but you might know someone
else that fits better.
Also, we plan to individuate some example or topic and ask lecturers
to work them out from their perspective/domain. This activity will
serve as a way to integrate the different views and approaches.
Of course, the attitude of the lecturers is important here so it would
be great if, when suggesting someone, you have direct experience on
how they teach and how the interact with the audience.
No need to say that we need to keep expenses low. We plan to take
advantage of local experts at least in the area of knowledge
representation (see course "Formalizing ontological knowledge")
Finally, in our mind students should have some knowledge of FOL as
prerequisite.
Cheers
Stefano and Claudio
Title of the school:
IAOA Summer School on Ontological Analysis
**DAY 1
-- 0.5h Introduction to IAOA + Introduction to the IAOA summer school
Lecturers:
Nicola Guarino, Claudio and Stefano
-- 3h, Review of FOL (as knowledge representation language suitable
for
ontology)
Lecturers (two options):
Luciano Serafini and Chiara Ghidini (Italy) Enrico Franconi (Italy)
Lunch (1.5hr)
-- 3h, Introduction to ontological analysis (what is an ontology,
etc.) Lecturers (two options):
Nicola Guarino (Italy)
John Sowa (USA)
**DAY 2 to 5
-- 1.5h, Ontological analysis: philosophical perspective Lecturers
(three options):
Achille Varzi (USA)
Thedore Sider (USA)
Kevin Mulligan (Switzerland)
Break (30 min)
-- 1.5h, Ontology in semantics and cognitive linguistic Lecturers (two
options):
Barbara Partee (USA)
Leonard Talmy (USA)
Lunch (1.5hr)
-- 1.5h, Formalizing ontological knowledge [basically, formal
languages/techniques for ontology] Lecturers (two options):
Luciano Serafini and Chiara Ghidini (Italy) Enrico Franconi (Italy)
Break (30 min)
-- 1.5h, Ontology application and database Lecturers (two options):
Bill Andersen (USA)
Chris Welty (USA)