Re: SUO: Ballot may be released Friday
Sorry to be stubbornly logical (as Matthew puts it). Can anybody please explain
to me or send a pointer to a message on this list expalining how these two
motions relate and what will happen in case both are adopted?
I still do not see the point of voting on commencing work on one document and
voting on commencing work on any document. What does 'candidate project' means
in John's motion? So far only IFF has a status here. If Adams' motion passes,
IFF and SUMO will have a status, not OpenCyc. Why does John's motion mention
OpenCyc then?
My comment is:
i) Adams' motion is fine.
ii) John's should not be specific (not name anything, but IFF since it's
already accepted), propose a provision for including more sources. Additional
sources should be proposed and eventually accepted the way SUMO might be.
Thanks for your time,
Pierre
>
> SUO Working Group,
>
> 1. This is not yet the actual ballot, so please don't vote yet.
>
> 2. Below are the latest versions of the motions by Adam Pease and John
> Sowa.
>
> 3. If see any errors or have additional suggested changes that will
> impact your vote,
> please submit them to the list or to Adam or John.
>
> 4. The ballots will be posted to this list and also mailed directly to
> all voting members. You will be asked to respond to both Jon Awbrey and
> me, but not the SUO list, unless you specifically want your vote (and any
> comments) shared with everyone. Keep in mind, with 79 voting members, we
> don't want to swamp people's inboxes.
>
> 5. If no further changes, the ballot will be released Friday, May 30th,
> and be open for 14 days.
>
> Jim Schoening
>
> ----------Final Draft Ballot--------------------------------
> Subject: SUO Ballot with 2 Questions
>
> ATTN Voting Members of IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working
> Group:
>
> 1. Please vote on the below two questions. Votes may be in the form of
> YES, NO, or ABSTAIN. The motion will pass if both (a majority of voting
> members either vote or acknowledge receipt of the ballot) and (YES votes
> are greater than [NO plus ABSTAIN votes]).
>
> 2. If you are unsure whether you are a voting member, see the list of
> voting members at http://suo.ieee.org/voting-members.txt.
>
> 3. If you choose not to vote, please acknowledge receipt of the ballot.
>
> 4. The period for voting will end at midnight EDT on June 13, 2003. If a
> majority of voting members have not yet voted or acknowledged, the chair
> may extend the period for voting and may remind those who have not
> responded.
>
> 5. Please email your vote to Jon Awbrey (copied above) and me, but not
> the SUO list, unless you specifically want your vote (and any comments)
> shared with everyone.
>
> Jim Schoening
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ballot Question #1:
>
> "Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
> commence work on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) version 1.52
> [April 25, 2003] posted at:
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SUO/Merge.
> txt?rev=1.49&content-type=text/plain> (containing the ontology) and
> http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/FormalSUOdraft.rtf>
> (containing the text of the formal standards proposal) with the intent of
> developing it into a final SUO document. There is further intent to
> collaborate with the SUO group working on a joint library of modules
> project.
>
> Background: Information which is not part of the motion or proposed
> starter document, but which may be helpful in appreciating its value, is
> as follows. The SUMO was first released on Dec 9, 2000. The first and
> all subsequent revisions have been public releases. SUMO is being used
> by (a small number) of companies and research institutions around the
> world. It has been subject to formal verification by an automated
> theorem prover. It has been divided into 11 modules to simplify reuse.
> SUMO is small enough to be easily learned (approximately 1000 terms, 4000
> axioms, 750 rules) but large enough to cover, at a high level, any domain
> of interest. It is well-axiomatized, including many rules, not just a
> type structure. The language it is written in is defined at
> <http://suo.ieee.org/suo-kif.html>. SUMO has been written independently
> of any particular theorem prover and has been used in several different
> systems including LOOM and SNARK. SUMO has also been used in the
> creation of a number of other freely available products, as listed below
>
> - WordNet Mappings: We've now mapped, by hand, all of the
> approximately 100,000 WordNet synsets to SUMO concepts. In addition to
> the nouns, we've mapped the verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SUO/>
>
> - SUMO-Compliant Domain Ontologies. These include ontologies for
> weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, Quality of Service ontology,
> covering computer systems and networks, Ecommerce Services ontology,
> Ontology of biological viruses, Financial ontology, Ontology of terrain
> features, an ontology of Government, and a Periodic table of the
> elements.
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/index.html#download>
>
> - LOOM Translator for SUMO
> <http://einstein.teknowledge.com:8080/Sumo2Loom/Sumo2Loom_register.jsp?fi
> leType=.tar&fileName=sumo2loom_b7.tar>
>
> - DAML translation of SUMO
> <http://reliant.teknowledge.com/DAML/SUMO.daml>
>
> - XML translation of SUMO
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/Merge-XML.txt> and KIF to
> XML translator <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/KIF2XML.txt>
>
> - open source browser download for SUMO
> <http://virtual.cvut.cz/kifb/en/>
>
> - on-line SUMO browser
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/SKB.jsp?req=SC&skb=SUMO>
>
> All of these items are freely available through our Ontology home page:
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com> or directly at the links above.
>
> Please insert vote here (YES, NO, or ABSTAIN): ( )
>
> --------End Ballot Question #1----------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Ballot Question #2:
>
> Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO)
> commence work on a project to develop a standard for ontology
> specification and registration, according to the following guidelines:
>
> 1. The standard shall be based on the contributions of three SUO
> candidate projects: IFF, OpenCyc, and SUMO.
>
> 2. The standard shall specify an ontology registry, such as the
> metadata registries specified by ISO/IEC IS 11179-3, but with extensions
> that are required to define ontologies and to relate them to one another.
>
> 3. The ontology registry shall be organized as a collection of
> modules, related in a generalization/specialization hierarchy.
>
> 4. Each module shall consist of a theory together with
> documentation and other metadata. The theory shall consist of axioms
> and definitions stated in a logic-based language, such as those in the
> Common Logic (CL) framework.
>
> 5. The standard shall include the specification of a
> methodology for testing the theory part of any module for consistency,
> relating theories to one another in the generalization/specialization
> hierarchy, and combining two or more theories to derive a new theory
> that is larger and more specialized than the theories from which it was
> derived.
>
> Please insert vote here (YES, NO, or ABSTAIN): ( )
>
> --------End Ballot Question #2----------------------------------
>
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