We had a great session with our invited speaker Dr. Patrick
Cassidy (from MITRE) today. He presented his talk on: "Defining
Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool for Ontologizing
Ontolog" explaining the position of the formal upper ontology and
its role in semantic interoperability, and proposes the use of a
controlled "Linguistic Defining Vocabulary" that the community
may find useful immediately in the task of ontologizing the
Ontolog, or similar bodies of knowledge. He also made the case
that using upper ontologies does not necessarily has to be
excessively challenging at all. (01)
Our appreciations go out to Dr. Cassidy for sharing his knowledge
and insight with us. And, as always, thanks to all the
participants for joining us and for contributing to the rich
discussion we had, along with the presentation. (02)
Proceedings of the session are captured at our wiki page, at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_05_11 (03)
In particular, full audio recording of the session (as well as
the podcast and telephone playback of it) is now available too -
see:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13#nidO9G (04)
... Dr. Cassidy's contribution today adds yet another key piece
to the collective intelligence and body of knowledge that our
community is building. Thanks again, Pat. (05)
Best regards. =ppy (06)
P.S. Once again, our 3rd community face-to-face meeting is coming
up soon (with an opening workshop on July 23, 2006 at Stanford
University). See
http://ontolog.cim3.net/forum/ontolog-forum/2006-07/msg00024.html
and
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologWorkshop_July_2006
for more details about on-site or remote participation. 'See' you
there! =ppy
-- (07)
Peter P. Yim wrote Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:03:16 -0700:
> *REMINDER*
>
> The subject talk is coming up this Thursday 7/13 (starting at
> 1:30pm EDT / 10:30am PDT / 17:30 UTC).
>
> ... RSVP (by e-mailing the sender offline) if you are planning
> to attend and haven't already responded.
>
> We look forward to having you at the session.
>
> Regards. =ppy
>
> P.S. *I have updated the Speaker's Bio in the message below.
> There were a couple of inadvertent errors too, which went out
> with the call-invitations, which are now corrected in the
> update. =ppy
> -- (08)
> Peter P. Yim wrote Fri, 07 Jul 2006 02:27:15 -0700 [updated*]:
> > *ANNOUNCEMENT*
> >
> > We are pleased to announce that *Dr. Patrick Cassidy*
> > from MITRE will be joining us on
> > Thursday, July 13, 2006, to present a talk on
> > *Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic: A Tool
> > for Ontologizing Ontolog*.
> >
> > This is the 10th event in the series of events of talks and
> > discussions (between April and July 2006) that revolve
> > around the topic: "Ontologizing the Ontolog Body of
> > Knowledge" during which this community explores the "what's"
> > and "how's" to the development of a semantically
> > interoperable application, using the improved access to
> > the community knowledge of Ontolog as a case in point. (09)
> > *Conference call-in details*:
> >
> > Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006
> > Start Time: 17:30 UTC / 1:30pm EDT / 10:30am PDT
> > (World Time:
> >
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=13&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
>
> > Topic: *Defining Vocabularies, Ontological and Linguistic*:
> > *A Tool for Ontologizing Ontolog* (010)
> > *Abstract*: (by Pat Cassidy)
> >
> > For over ten years, study groups have been exploring the
> > potential for broad agreement on a common upper ontology as
> > a tool for semantic interoperability. The vision of how the
> > upper ontology will enable semantic interoperability is
> > usually stated in terms of unifying the semantics of multiple
> > databases, or mapping multiple domain ontologies through a
> > common upper ontology or interlingua. This talk will describe
> > how utility of the upper ontology for semantic integration
> > goes beyond these scenarios, and will propose the use of an
> > upper ontology in a way that may immediately affect the task
> > of ontologizing the Ontolog. (011)
> > *About the Speaker*:
> >
> > *Dr. Patrick Cassidy* Dr. Patrick Cassidy received his Ph.D.
> > in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1971, and started
> > his professional career as a biochemist in the research
> > labs at Merck pharmaceuticals. He became increasingly
> > intrigued by the potential of computer intelligence,
> > and took an early retirement from Merck in 1993 to devote
> > full time to research in natural language understanding and
> > knowledge representation. He has been involved in building
> > ontologies since 1995. Since late 2004 he has been
> > working at MITRE as a Senior Artificial Intelligence
> > Engineer. Prior to that, he was an ontologist at
> > VerticalNet, one of the pioneers in applying ontological
> > engineering to eBusiness solutions. Dr. Cassidy has been
> > playing an active leadership role in the ontology
> > community, which include his founding and chairing
> > of the ONTACWG (Ontology and Taxonomy Coordinating Working
> > Group) of SICoP; as well as his key contribution in
> > organizing the recent Upper Ontology Summit. He
> > considers it his mission to help at least one upper ontology
> > become sufficiently widely adopted to attract
> > vendors and academic groups, to use it and
> > demonstrate the networking benefits of a common
> > conceptual language for knowledge-based programs. (012)
> > *Refer to details on the session wiki page at*:
> >
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2006_07_13 (013)
> > 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).
>
> > 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. (014)
> > *RSVP* by by emailing me at <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> offline.
> >
> >
> > Regards. =ppy
> >
> > Peter P. Yim
> > Co-convener, Ontolog (015)
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