Reminder: Peter F. Patel-Schneider on Apr.17 in DKG/SWSA talk series

Dear all,

Here is a quick reminder that tomorrow at 18:00 CEST / 12:00 EDT, we
will have Peter Patel-Schneider's talk in our online talk series.

  "Does the Semantic Graphs community care about semantics?"

For more information, see my earlier email below.

Best,
Olaf


On Mon, 2024-03-18 at 14:59 +0100, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am happy to announce the next talk in the online talk series [1] of
> the COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs (DKG) [2], in
> collaboration with the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) [3].
> 
> On April 17 at 18:00 CEST / 12:00 EDT, Peter F. Patel-Schneider will
> talk about:
> 
>  "Does the Semantic Graphs community care about semantics?"
> 
> Abstract:
> 
> There has been considerable academic progress in providing formal
> model-theoretic semantic foundations for Semantic Web languages and
> other graph-based formalisms, which all can be characterized as
> Semantic Graphs. This work often provides both a well-specified
> meaning a particular graph-based formalism and a specification of how
> to query this formalism. Nonetheless most work using Semantic Graphs
> pays little attention to this body of literature.  Common queries
> against graph-based formalisms produce results that are either
> incomplete or unsound with respect to either formal or intended
> semantics of the formalism. The inadequacy of standard SPARQL to
> query RDFS data and the common use of restrictive qualifiers in
> Wikidata are prime examples of this lack of attention to even the
> simplest of semantic foundations.
> 
> Speaker:
> 
> Peter F. Patel-Schneider received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from
> the University of Toronto in 1987. From 1983 to 1988 he was a member
> of the Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research and
> Schlumberger Palo Alto Research. Peter then joined Bell Laboratories
> and remained there until 2012 when he joined the Nuance Artificial
> Intelligence and Language Laboratory. In 2019 he joined the
> Artificial Intelligence Center in Samsung Research America. From 2020
> until he retired in 2023 Peter worked at PARC.
> 
> Peter's research interests center on representing large-scale
> knowledge and information, particularly taking large amounts of data
> and turning it into knowledge. He has made long-term contributions to
> description and ontology logics, particularly the W3C OWL Web
> Ontology Language. He developed much of OWL, as well as SWRL, the
> Semantic Web Rule Language, and RDF, the W3C language for
> representing data in the Semantic Web.
> 
> Peter has been working on extracting semantic information from data
> sources, allowing data to be more easily integrated into the Semantic
> Web. His current life goal is to put Wikidata on a firm semantic
> foundation.
> 
> 
> The talk will be live streamed at our YouTube channel:
> https://www.youtube.com/@costdkg4356/streams

> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Olaf
> 
> [1] https://cost-dkg.eu/talks

> [2] https://cost-dkg.eu/

> [3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

>

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2024 09:20:25 UTC