*ANNOUNCEMENT* (01)
We are pleased to announce that Dr. David Ferrucci, a Senior
Manager from IBM Research, will be presenting to the community on
his talk entitled: "Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An
overview of UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic
Revolution" on Thursday May 11, 2006. (02)
This is the 5th event in our series of talks and discussions that
revolve around the topic: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of
Knowledge" during which this community will explore the "what's"
and "how's" to the development of a semantically interoperable
application, using the improved access to the content of Ontolog
as a case in point. (03)
*Conference call-in details*: (04)
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2006
Start Time: 10:30 AM PDT / 1:30 PM EDT / 17:30 UTC
(World Time:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=5&day=11&year=2006&hour=10&min=30&sec=0&p1=224)
Session Duration: ~2 Hours
Dial-in Number: +1-641-696-6600 (Iowa)
Participant Access Code: "686564#"
Shared-screen support will be available (05)
Topic: *Putting the Semantics in the Semantic Web: An overview of
UIMA and its role in Accelerating the Semantic Revolution* (06)
*Abstract*: (by Dave Ferrucci) (07)
The dream of the semantic web as well as the future of
information and knowledge management applications will rely on
the rapid and massive explication of intended meaning (i.e.,
semantics) in unstructured information sources (e.g, text
documents, video, speech etc). This talk will discuss the
importance of embracing and deploying automatic semantic
discovery, in spite of less that perfect accuracy, to help enable
the semantic web, as well as an emerging class of advanced search
applications we refer to a Knowledge Gathering and Synthesis
applications. It will introduce IBM's recent contribution of UIMA
(http://www.ibm.com/research/uima ) to the open-source community
and discuss how this work will help accelerate the production and
application of automated semantic discovery. (08)
*About the Speakers*: (09)
*Dr. David Ferrucci* is a Research Staff Member and Senior
Manager at IBM’s T.J. Watson’s Research Center. He manages the
Semantic Analysis and Integration department which is focused on
technologies and architectures for discovering relevant knowledge
in unstructured information and leveraging the results in a wide
range of business intelligence and information management
solutions. Principal research thrusts in his department include
knowledge gathering and synthesis, automated question answering,
semantic search, knowledge integration and the Unstructured
Information Management Architecture (UIMA). His team includes
world-class NLP, IR and Knowledge Representation researchers and
software engineers. Dr. Ferrucci is the chief architect for UIMA
(http://www.ibm.com/research/uima). This project provides the
architectural and software foundation for accelerating and
integrating a broad collection of efforts in advanced search,
text and multi-modal analytics across six of IBM’s Research labs
and several large government-sponsored projects. UIMA has become
the standard platform for developing and delivering multi-modal
analytics into IBM products and services aimed at solutions that
help customers exploit the value in unstructured information
sources. Its application outside of IBM, across research,
industry and government is growing rapidly and helping to advance
the science and application of text analytics. Throughout Dr.
Ferrucci’s academic and professional career he has focused on
designing computer systems to help people discover, represent,
integrate, manage, and apply real-world knowledge. He is
published in the field of logic and knowledge representation,
architectures for natural language engineering, interactive
document configuration, automated question answering and story
generation. Dr. Ferrucci earned his PhD in computer science at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. (010)
*Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_11 (011)
This will be a virtual session over an augmented conference call.
The session is expected to start with a 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). (012)
As usual, this Ontolog event is open to all. I look forward to
having you at this session. Please pass the announcement along to
those who might be interested to join us too. (013)
*RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline. (014)
Regards. =ppy (015)
Peter P. Yim
Co-convener, Ontolog
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