Re: Welcome and Introductions

It was the "Knowledge Representation" aspect that attracted me to join 
the group.

AI appears to be about creating computer systems that are like people. 
AIKR is partly about the internal design of such computer systems, but 
it is also about about communication between them and about 
communication between them and people. The communication aspect is to my 
mind more important than internal design.

My ideas on this are not based on research, but are derived from many 
years of experience of participating in and managing groups of people 
developing standards - at least some of which incorporate knowledge. 
They are not fully formed, or well expressed, and I hope that through 
this group I will be able to connect them with academic and commercial 
research and contribute to a group conensus.

The list of proposed outcomes at https://www.w3.org/community/aikr/ 
looks good, and I suggest starting with the list of resources and the 
natural language vocabulary. I propose that the vocabulary should 
include KR terms as well as AI terms. (This may have been intended, but 
is not explicit.)

Paola Di Maio wrote:
> 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/ 
> <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 <mailto: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
>     <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alberto_Nogales>
>     alberto.nogales@ceiec.es <mailto:alberto.nogales@ceiec.es>
>
>
>
>>     On 06 Jul 2018, at 12:34, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio@gmail.com
>>     <mailto:paola.dimaio@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     seminal article
>>     <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1207/s15516709cog0101_2>
>
>

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