Re: Welcome and Introductions

Thank you everyone who introduced themselves, and others please do so in
your own time.

What motivated the formation of this group initially is a need to keep up
with the extremely fast moving pace of AI progress - even when writing a
simple research paper or teaching a basic class like 'Introduction to
Machine Learning' these days it is necessary to keep an eye out for new
approaches and contexts. There is a lot happening. Things are changing by
the minute.
I don't understand the words people use anymore. Everyday I need to start a
new learning curve. What were once  fairly clear cut fields of study seem
to have shifted (or is it my consciosness expanding?) There seems to be new
concepts coming up all the time.  Cognitive ability is linked to knowledge
representation, both for humans and machines, and I thought maybe we can
try to grab some of this rapidly developing AI knowledge by creating some
KR tabs to help us figure things out. Even KR is moving but at a less fast
pace.

So I started digesting words and concepts and hope that the cognitive load
is going to become more bearable. Then realised there is much to be done in
this space, and since the web is now part of us in more than one way, our
interface, our constantly updated database, W3C is open to new ideas, why
not make a CG.

I am so glad to have so many clever and experienced people on the list.
Its easy to turn sun open informal efforts into a rave party, get
distracted  with interesting discussions, since we all have our own agendas
and interesting backgrounds and a lot to tell.

Our challenge is to keep the focus, so I beg everyone please lets put down
explicitly (write in our web pages) some stuff we want doing (goals,
deliverables whatever) and let's stick to it diligently and systematically.

Please share with the group - on separate threads perhaps - what you think
we should try to achieve, and how?
What motivates you to join this group? What would like to contribute, and
what can the group do for you?

I  started a few pages with initial thoughts, they should editable
https://www.w3.org/community/aikr/welcome/

On a housekeeping note, we may benefit from a co-chair if anyone would like
to volunteer
(no particular commitment required)  I hope this group will become a WG as
soon as we have enough juice, and produce a lot of nice deliverables, and
after achieving some of the goals I have initially set (maye publish one or
two reports, or a journal special issue or something) then I ll be ready to
pass on the torch to the next chair.

Since it's the summer, I suggest we may relax and ponder on the tasks
already set out and contribute some thinking and some items (start
submitting resources, edit the TO DO  list a bit,  etc) and postpone our
first virtual meeting until September.  but if someone/anyone is inclined
to call out a virtual meeting before the end of the summer please feel free
to do so.

I am not big with online meetings, prefer to exchange via emails, but if
virtual meetings become productive I ll make the effort.

Personally I am now busy reading  new research - tons and tons of stuff -
and simply
understanding what it all means. I ll try to pin down a few concept/terms
definition and submit them to our resource depository and will ping the
list when I need some input on what I am doing
For now these pages are still drafts, but when everyone has had the
opportunity to review
them, we can make the firm and start actioning them, set dates etc

Please do the same!

Look forward to learn more about what everybody is doing and how can this
community
help! Questions?

Thanks again for joining

PDM






Dr Paola Di Maio
Center For Technology Ethics
ISTCS.org
*A bit about me <https://about.me/paoladimaio>*


On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 5:04 PM, Alberto Nogales Moyano <
alberto.nogales@ceiec.es> wrote:

> Dear all
> thanks for creating this group.
> My name is Alberto Nogales, I am a computer scientist and have a PhD from
> University of Alcalá (Spain) related with Social Network Analysis of the
> Web of Linked Data in order to improve data retrieval strategies. During
> the last years I have also worked in Technical University in Vienna,
> Technical University in Tallinn and University of Málaga. Actually, I work
> as a researcher and lecturer in Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (also in
> Spain). The head of my lab has a huge background in neural networks, so we
> have started to apply Deep Learning models to some issues like automatic
> classification of Linked Data sources or data retrieval strategies by
> applying learning to rank. More information about my lab here:
> http://www.ceiec.es/en/
>
>
> Alberto Nogales Moyano
> PostDoctoral researcher and Lecturer
> CEIEC (Francisco de Vitoria University)
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alberto_Nogales
> alberto.nogales@ceiec.es
>
>
>
> On 06 Jul 2018, at 12:34, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> seminal article
> <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1207/s15516709cog0101_2>
>
>
>