*REMINDER* (01)
Happy New Year, everyone! (02)
This long anticipated session on "What is an ontology?" is coming
up in a few days. Whether you are just trying to find out for the
first time, or if you are a seasoned software professional,
system designer, librarian, knowledge engineer, taxonomist or
ontologist, there are good reasons why you shouldn't miss the
session! (03)
RSVP (if you haven't already) ... we're looking forward to having
you at the session. (04)
Regards. =ppy
-- (05)
Peter P. Yim wrote Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:47:38 -0800:
> *ANNOUNCEMENT*
>
> We are pleased to announce that Dr. Leo Obrst, co-convener of Ontolog,
> and a principal scientist at MITRE, will be presenting to the community.
> His talk is entitled: "*What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range
> of Semantic Models*"
>
>
> *Conference call-in details*:
>
> Date: Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006
> Start Time: 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 18:30 UTC (World Time:
>
>http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=1&day=12&year=2006&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)
>
>
> Session Duration: 2 Hours
> Dial-in Number: +1-702-851-3330 (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA)
> Participant Access Code: "686564#"
> VNC shared-screen support available
>
>
> Topic: *What is an ontology? - A Briefing on the Range of Semantic Models*
>
>
> *Abstract*:
>
> The Ontology Spectrum describes a range of semantic models of increasing
> expressiveness and complexity: taxonomy, thesaurus, conceptual model,
> and logical theory.
>
> This presentation initially describes the Ontology Spectrum and
> important distinctions related to semantic models, e.g., the distinction
> among term, concept, and real world referent; the distinction among
> syntax, semantics, and pragmatics; the distinction between intension and
> extension; and de facto distinctions that the ISO 11179 standard makes
> (as do many others): data objects, classification objects, terminology
> objects, meaning objects, and the relationships among these.
>
> The individual semantic model types are then discussed: weak and strong
> taxonomies, thesauri, and weak and strong ontologies (conceptual model
> and logical theory, respectively). Each of these are defined,
> exemplified, and discussed with respect to when a more expressive model
> is needed.
>
> If time permits, semantic integration and interoperability are discussed
> with respect to the models.
>
> Finally, a pointer to an expansion of the logical theory portion of the
> Ontology Spectrum is given: the Logic Spectrum, which describes the
> range of less to more expressive logics used for ontology and knowledge
> representation.
>
>
> *About the Speakers*:
>
> *Dr. Leo Obrst* is a principal artificial intelligence scientist at
> MITRE’s (http://www.mitre.org) Center for Innovative Computing and
> Informatics, where he leads the Information Semantics group (semantics,
> ontological engineering, knowledge representation and management), and
> has been involved in projects on Semantic Web rule/ontology interaction,
> context-based semantic interoperability, ontology-based knowledge
> management, conceptual information retrieval, metadata and thesaurus
> construction for community knowledge sharing, intelligent agent
> technology, and ontology-based modeling of complex decision-making, He
> was recently Director of Ontological Engineering at VerticalNet.com, a
> department he formed to create ontologies in the product and service
> space to support Business-to-Business e-commerce. Leo's PhD is in
> theoretical linguistics with a concentration in formal semantics from
> the University of Texas-Austin. He has worked over 20 years in
> computational linguistics, knowledge representation, and in the past
> nine years in ontological engineering. Leo is a member of the Executive
> Committee of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR,
> http://ncor.us/), and the chair of the NCOR Technical Committee. He was
> a member of the W3C Web Ontology Working Group
> (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/) that developed the Web Ontology
> Language OWL. He is a member of the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology working
> group (http://suo.ieee.org/), the Semantic Web Services Initiative
> (http://www.swsi.org/), the Ontolog community (http://ontolog.cim3.net,
> which he co-founded and which focuses on the promotion of ontological
> engineering and semantic technologies), and the W3C Rule
> Interoperability group. He is a member of AAAI, ACL, LSA, and ACM. His
> research interests include semantic interoperability/integration,
> formalization of context for ontology mapping and merging, and formal
> upper ontologies, Semantic Web rules, and the application of formal
> ontology and formal semantics to ontological engineering.
>
> *Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_01_12
>
> This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call. The
> session is expected to start with 45 min. ~ 1 Hour presentation followed
> by an extended discussion between the participants and the speaker. The
> entire session will be recorded and made available as open content under
> the prevailing Ontolog IPR policy (see:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiHomePage#nid32).
>
> I look forward to having you at this open session. Please pass the
> announcement along to those who might be interested to join us too. All
> are welcomed. *RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline.
>
>
> Regards. =ppy
>
> Peter P. Yim
> Co-convener, Ontolog
_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/
Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Config:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/ontolog-forum/
Shared Files: http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/
Community Wiki: http://ontolog.cim3.net/wiki/
To Post: mailto:ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (06)
|