Re: Welcome and Introductions

Greetings:


I am Carl Mattocks, for 30 + years I have taken a pragmatic approach in
developing AI & KR capabilities. Thus I easily accepted Paola's suggestion
to name the group AIKR.
I suggested the ChatBot centric areas because I believe to have any chance
of proven success, AIKR must be applied as in, have a national language /
discipline specific context / domains / dimensions / vectors etc.

I support the idea that  (1) the vocabulary should include KR terms as well
as AI terms; (2)  knowledge is best stewarded as a property of a
community-of-practice; (3) AIKR should be published in a compendium (4)
which is likely to have some kind of blockchain &  AIKR miners.


As reference material I start with links to UIMA work .. so we can take
advantage of the NLP oriented capabilities.

cheers

Carl Mattocks
http://www.linkedin.com/in/carlmattocks carlmattocks@gmail.com

Reference:
A number of NLP research institutes  based their software development
efforts on UIMA specifications to adhere to emerging standards.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/workshops/W16_Proceedings.pdf

UIMA, the Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is an
open-platform middle-ware for dealing with unstructured information (text,
speech, audio, video data), originally launched by IBM.
Apache Software Foundation has a project for developing UIMA-based software
https://uima.apache.org/d/uimaj-2.6.0/tutorials_and_users_guides.html.
 Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(OASIS) hosted a Technical
Committee to standardize the UIMA specification.
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/27025/UIMA_Specification_Draft_v1.doc
 A number of NLP research institutes  based their software development
efforts on UIMA specifications to adhere to emerging standards.
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/workshops/W16_Proceedings.pdf


It was a pleasure to clarify

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 5:45 AM, Chris Harding <chris@lacibus.net> wrote:

> 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/
>
> 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>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Chris
> ++++
>
> Chief Executive, Lacibus <https://lacibus.net> Ltd
> chris@lacibus.net
>
>