- From: Leo Obrst <lobrst@mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 09:17:53 -0500
- To: Deborah McGuinness <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>
- CC: Webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
A question I have: under which use case is conceptual search? I too had posted this as a use case, but am not sure where it falls. Thanks, Leo Deborah McGuinness wrote: > > Sorry for the late contribution – I was offline when this was officially > due. > > These are a few use case interests from my research interests and also > from consulting. References point to some examples of work I or > colleagues have done in these areas. > The last point is work led by McIlraith in our group at Stanford. > > - search – from simple things like structured search like retrieving > tech reports, calendar entries[0], etc. The search should include both > free text search and utilizing markup information and ontology > definitions. This moves into conceptual search. An early example of > simple and more complicated conceptual search using ontologies, markup, > and free text search is FindUR [1-3] > - intelligent interoperable e-commerce. Use ontologies for all levels > of support including simple things like integrity checks, more > complicated support such as ontology merging and mapping to “standard” > upper level ontologies such as UNSPSC, etc. Simple early versions of > this include electronic yellow pages such as Directory Westfield. More > complicated versions of this include real configuration and solutions > across complicated domains. Early examples of ontology-enhanced > configuration includes work on PROSE/QUESTAR [5]. > - Explainable query answering systems using background ontologies and > markup to both answer queries as well as to provide followup questions. > One way of visualizing this might be “ask jeeves done with knowledge > representation” (instead of through a lot of hard coding). > - Personalized assistant. One example I like is an assistant supporting > the logistics of travel – both making travel reservations and also > integrating that into appropriate systems like my palm pilot, expense > forms, etc. I have a bit of this in a presentation for ICC2001 (but > Mike Dean’s detailed example is another excellent example of this > issue). > - Web services. One of the focuses of KSL, Stanford's research over the > last 1.5 years has been the confluence of the Semantic Web and Web > Services -- self-contained Web-accessible programs, and devices, > together with distributed computing architectures. As with DAML+OIL > (in the guise of DAML-S), we would like to use WOL to create ontologies > of Web Service properties and capabilities. Such annotations would be > used to automate Web service discovery, Web service invocation and Web > service composition and interoperation. [6] > > [0] http://www.quintillion.com/summit/calendar/ > [1] http://www.research.att.com/~dlm/findur/ > [2] http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/iccs00-abstract.html > [3] http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/imia99-abstract.html > [4] http://www.ataclick.com/westfield/ > [5] http://www.research.att.com/~dlm/papers/ieee-expert.html > [6] http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/sam/ieee01.pdf > > -- > Deborah L. McGuinness > Knowledge Systems Laboratory > Gates Computer Science Building, 2A Room 241 > Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-9020 > email: dlm@ksl.stanford.edu > URL: http://ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm > (voice) 650 723 9770 (stanford fax) 650 725 5850 (computer fax) > 801 705 0941 -- _____________________________________________ Dr. Leo Obrst The MITRE Corporation mailto:lobrst@mitre.org Intelligent Information Management/Exploitation Voice: 703-883-6770 7515 Colshire Drive, M/S W640 Fax: 703-883-1379 McLean, VA 22102-7508, USA
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