RE: Introductions

Alternate for NRC, regrets for F2F

  -- a bio summarizing experience you have that's relevant to the
     work of this group

I've been involved with the Rule Markup Initiative at NRC since 2003, my
initial contribution being conversion of the specification from DTD to
XML Schema. I have maintained (and documented) the evolving spec over
the course of five releases since then, making several technical
innovations along the way including a content-model based approach
(facilitating modularization) [1], a dual expanded ("striped") and
compact ("stripe-skipped") syntax [2], XSLT upgraders and normalizers
[3], as well as context-sensitive tags. I also contributed to related
W3C submissions (SWRL, SWSL and WRL), and recently compiled a full
glossary of RuleML tags [4].

My long-term interest is in computational linguistics, where my current
work is to map natural language to formal rules (in RuleML) via Attempto
Controlled English [5].

  -- as much contact info as you care to share on this public list

David.Hirtle AT nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

  -- what you expect to get out of this WG

I expect the outcome of the WG's efforts to be an appropriately
modularized Semantic Web rule language with a syntax formally specified
in XML Schema.

  -- what you hope/expect to contribute.

In general, knowledge and insight gained through my involvement with
RuleML and related languages, as well as my editorial skills. In
particular, experience with XML Schema, XSLT, relevant validators and
other tools.

[1] http://www.ruleml.org/modularization/#Approach
[2] http://www.ruleml.org/0.9/#Striped%20Syntax
[3] http://www.ruleml.org/0.89/xslt
[4] http://www.ruleml.org/0.9/glossary
[5] http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/attempto

Received on Monday, 5 December 2005 19:38:45 UTC