Re: SUO: Ballot may be released Friday
Pierre,
The motions overlap.
John's motion includes the introduction OpenCyc and SUMO as
documents to be worked on by this group. John DeOliveiri felt John
Sowa's motion adequately introducted OpenCyc into the group and withdrew
his motion. But Adam wanted a separate motion for SUMO.
Jim Schoening
On Thu, 29 May 2003 09:58:57 +0100 "Pierre Grenon"
<pierre.grenon@ifomis.uni-leipzig.de> writes:
> 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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