SUO: Fw: (SeWeb) EU-NSF Semantic web strategic workshop report
SUO,
Subject report doesn't mention SUO by name, but does state:
"What we envision, in this respect, is not so much a monolithic
top-level ontology to be used by all applications (an unrealistic and
naïve perspective), ..."
Hmmm. These words sound familiar.
The full sentence reads, "What we envision, in this respect, is
not so much a monolithic top-level ontology to be used by all
applications (an unrealistic and naïve perspective), but rather the
possibility of making explicit the nature and the content of ontological
choices simply by committing to specific foundational modules, whose
characteristics and implications are already well understood (although
not necessarily agreed upon) by a large community."
Jim Schoening
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From: Jerome.Euzenat@acm.org (Jerome Euzenat)
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:06 +0200
Subject: (SeWeb) EU-NSF Semantic web strategic workshop report
Message-ID: <m16zYpz-000zCba@zephyr.cs.vu.nl>
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I am pleased to announce the availability of the following report:
RESEARCH CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE SEMANTIC WEB
http://www.ercim.org/EU-NSF/semweb.html
Report from the joint European commission and National Science Foundation
Strategic workshop on the semantic web
3-5 October 2001, Sophia Antipolis, France
Presentation:
The web today enables people to access documents and services on the
internet. Today's methods require human intelligence. The interface
to services is represented in web pages written in natural language
much must be understood and acted upon by a human. The semantic web
augments the current web with formalised knowledge and data that can
be processed by computers. Some services will mix human readable and
structured data so they can be used by both humans and computers.
Others will support only formalised knowledge and will only be used
by machines.
This report is the synthesis from a strategic workshop on the
semantic web which has been organised by the European Consortium in
Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) for the European Union Future
Emergent Technology program (EU-FET) and the US National Science
Foundation (NSF). The workshop which was held in Sophia-Antipolis
(France), October 3rd-5th, 2001, gathered 20 European and US
researchers from the field of knowledge representation and
engineering, database, worldwide web and man-machine communication.
The participants considered the various aspects of languages and
inferences, infrastructure, human-related issues, ontologies as well
as applications and proposed what follows.
The report provides the workshop conclusions and recommendations to
the research funding bodies. Participants have identified key
research directions (identification and localisation, relationships
between semantic models, tolerant and safe reasoning, and
facilitating semantic web adoption) as well as promising application
areas and funding modalities.
The report is available online and hardcopies can be ordered from:
http://www.ercim.org/EU-NSF/semweb.html
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