Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation - Professor Alan Rector - Thu 2006-09-14 (PLO)
Conference Call Details (PLP)
- Subject: Ontolog Invited Speaker Presentation by AlanRector - Thu 2006-09-14 (PLQ)
- Agenda: Professor Alan Rector from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) will be presenting to the community his talk entitled: "Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare?)" (PLR)
- Date: Thursday, September 14, 2006 (PLS)
- Start Time: 17:30 UTC / 6:30pm BST / 1:30pm EDT / 10:30am PDT (PLT)
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- Duration: 1.5~2.0 hours (PLV)
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Attendees (PM6)
- Registered Attendees: (PM7)
- AlanRector (PM9)
- BobSmith (Q8I)
- PeterYim (PMB)
- BenjaminDeVore (Q58)
- CharlynnClayton (with a group of people from Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA) (Q60)
- FrankMcCabe (Q76)
- PeterBrown (Q73)
- MarcelVanMackelenbergh (Q75)
- ItzhakRoth (Q77)
- DougHolmes (Q78)
- ZhanjunLi (Q79)
- VinayChaudhri (Q7A)
- SteveRay (Q7B)
- NabonitaGuha (with other members of the research group at DRTC, ISI, Bangalore, India) (Q7C)
- ArturoSanchez (Q7D)
- EvanWallace (Q7E)
- PaulKoch (Q7F)
- AntoinetteArsic (Q7G)
- MichaelUschold (Q7R)
- JamesWerner (Q7P)
- David Throop (Boeing) (Q7H)
- Mark Dahl (Boeing) (Q7I)
- Woody Pidcock (Boeing) (Q7V)
- Lisbeth Duncan (Boeing) (Q7J)
- Lou Pape (Boeing) (Q82)
- Bill Murray (Boeing) (Q83)
- Jeffrey Schiffel (Boeing) (Q8N)
- BenjaminDeVore (Q7K)
- AtillaElci (Q7W)
- John Day (Essex Corporation, Melbourne, Florida, US) (Q7X)
- KateGoodier (Q7Z)
- TatianaMalyuta (Q85)
- SusieStephens (Q86)
- KurtConrad (Q8K)
- MatthewWest (Q8L)
- SusanTurnbull (Q8M)
- BillMcCarthy (Q8O)
- Dennis Lawler (NASA JSC) (Q8P)
- RexBrooks (Q8Y)
- ConradBock (Q8Z)
- Li-Ming Koo (US SSA) (Q90)
- PatCassidy (Q91)
- JimDisbrow (Q92)
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- Regrets: (PMD)
- GeorgeStrawn (meeting conflict) (Q7L)
- ChrisDeaton (out of town) (Q7M)
- JohnYoung (Q7N)
- SteveIhnen (Q7O)
- AdrianWalker (Q7Q)
- JackPark (Q7Y)
- JimHorning (meeting conflict) (Q80)
- BillJarrold (Q81)
- MarkMusen (PMA)
- DuaneNickull (Q87)
- JeanPierreMainguy (Q8J)
- EdDodds (Q9B)
Agenda & Proceedings (PME)
- Invited Speaker Professor Alan Rector from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) presents to the community his talk entitled: "Terminologies and Ontologies: What are they for? What would it mean to QA an ontology (specifically in healthcare?)" (PMF)
[picture of Professor Alan Rector] (PMG)
Abstract: (by AlanRector) (PMH)
Terminologies and 'Ontologies' serve several disparate purposes: (PMI)
- (PNQ)
- Providing a controlled vocabulary and/or standard set of identifiers (PMJ)
- Providing a means of browsing and finding appropriate vocabulary or identifiers (PMK)
- Providing the linguistic terms - synonyms, translations, etc.. - to go with the controlled vocabulary (PML)
- Cross mapping and translation between different systems (PMM)
- Providing logical criteria which can be used for inference and query expansion (PMN)
- Providing additional 'universal' or intrinsic information about the entities involved (PMO)
- Serving as an index for other background knowledge and resources (PMP)
Most current biomedical ontologies serve primarily the first three functions, with varying efforts towards formal logical criteria. However, there are aspirations, and sometimes claims, for more rigorous functions, and many standardisation efforts pre-suppose more and more formal structure. (PMQ)
Each of these functions implies criteria for quality assurance. For example, for managing controlled vocabularies, process issues such as version control and coverage are most critical. Browsing raises issues of human computer interaction, and language raises its own issues. The last three all require a degree of logical coherence and rigour. (PMR)
In addition to many biomedical ontologies, scaling is critical. Biomedical ontologies are large and potentially combinatorially explosive. For some applications, small enumerated terminologies are sufficient. For others, indefinitely large compositional ontologies that cannot, in principle, be pre-enumerated are required. (PMS)
Finally almost all ontologies are based on many poorly articulated assumptions. Any quality assurance methodology must take account both of what can be understood independent of consultation with the originators and what conclusions can be reached after consultation with the originators. (PMT)
Overall we propose an approach to quality along two dimensions - process and content - and a two stage process - the first independent of consultation with the originating authority, the second in consultation with the originating authority. (PMU)
- Session Format and Agenda: (PMV)
- this will be virtual session over a phone conference setting, augmented by shared computer screen support (PMW)
- The session will start with a brief self-introduction of the attendees (~10 min.) [We will be skipping this if there are more than 20 participants.] (PMX)
- Introduction of Professor Rector by Professor Bob Smith (PMY)
- Presentation by our invited speaker (45~60 min.) (PMZ)
- Open discussion (30~45 min.) [Kindly identify yourself before speaking.] (PN0)
- Bio of Professor Alan Rector: (PN1)
Alan Rector is Professor of Medical Informatics in the School of Computer Science at University of Manchester. He currently leads the MRC funded E-Science Projects CLEF/CLEF-Services and the JISC/EPSRC jointly funded CO-ODE/HyOntUse projects on ontology development tools. His research interests are in knowledge representation and management, user interface design, and practical support of clinical patient care. He has led the MRC/DoH funded PEN&PAD programme on user centred design of intelligent clinical interfaces, the EC funded GALEN programme a large reference ontology for clinical medicine. He is a member of the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices Working Group and on HL7, CEN and ISO working groups on healthcare terminology. In 2003 he was awarded the first BCS Award for Lifetime Achievement in Health Informatics. Address: School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL. email: rector-at-cs.man.ac.uk (PN2)
- Professor Rector's prepared slides can be accessed by pointing your web browsers to: (PN3)
- http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AlanRector_20060914/Terminologies-n-Ontologies--AlanRector_20060914.pdf (PN4)
- links to additional relevant resources: (PN5)
- Professor Rector's website is at: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rector/home_page_rector/ (Q8T)
- check out the GALEN site at - http://www.opengalen.org/ (Q8W)
- Rector: Jeremy Rogers' thesis would be a good resource, it should be available at the openGalen site, or if you cannot locate it, e-mail me or Jeremy at <jrogers-at-cs.man.sc.uk> (Q94)
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- Session ended 2006-09-14 11:56 am PDT (PNB)
Session Recording of the AlanRector Talk (PNC)
(Thanks to KurtConrad and PeterYim for their help with getting the session recorded. -ppy) (PND)
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- Conference Date and Time: September 14, 2006 10:38am~11:56am Pacific Daylight Time (PNH)
- Duration of Recording: 1 Hour 15 Minutes (PNI)
- Recording File Size: 8.8 MB (in mp3 format) (PNJ)
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