- From: <Patrick.Stickler@nokia.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:33:17 +0200
- To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org, www-webont-wg@w3.org
Hi folks, This is my introduction to both the RDF Core and Web Ontology working groups. My academic background has been in computer science and computational linguistics, with a focus on computational lexicography and machine translation. Over the past decade or so, I've worked at various applications relating to structured information, SGML, XML, and content management. I've done a good bit of work in the area of data conversion, data mining, and markup enrichment -- the latter involving the employment of heuristics and inference to guess the boundaries and semantics of content. In recent years, I have been working on applications of metadata for the classification, management, control, interchange, navigation, search and retrieval of electronic resources -- and to that end have been chewing on RDF and RDF Schema (amongst other things) for awhile now and have a short but fairly concrete wish list of what I'd like to see addressed in future semantic web standards. Those who might be interested in the gory details of my academic and professional history can find them at http://www-nrc.nokia.com/sw/resume.html My chief areas of interest with regards to Semantic Web technologies and standards include (in no special order): * The role of upper-level ontologies in achieving semantic transparency and interoperability across a broad set of specialized ontologies * The grounding of ontologies in semantic primitives which would minimize the amount of specific knowledge about specialized ontologies in order to perform generalized tasks such as navigation or auto-configuration of human-machine interfaces, as well as serve as mechanisms for measuring the semantic proximity of terms * The portability of resource identity and representation across architectural layers and standards -- i.e. where RDF and other semantic web standards fit into the big picture of complex, multi-layered, distributed web applications and communities of web applications * Definitions of equivalence, partial equivalence, and other forms of approximation between properties and resources and their role in the execution of search queries employing best-match algorithms, and the ranking of search results accordingly I am looking forward to working with all of you in the coming months and hope that I will be able to contribute to the group even a fraction of the measure of which I am sure to recieve from my interaction with so many talented folks. Best regards, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Email: patrick.stickler@nokia.com
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