ConferenceCall 2007 09 06

= Ontolog invited Speaker Presentation - Mr. Adam Pease - Thu 2007.09.06 =


 * Invited Speakers: Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software (California, USA.)


 * Topic: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) at Age 7: Progress and Promise"


 * Archive: slides & audio recording of the session (mp3)

Conference Call Details:

 * Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007 
 * Start Time: 10:30am PDT / 1:30pm EDT / 6:30pm BST / 17:30 GMT/UTC
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 * Expected Call Duration: 1.5~2.0 hours
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 * see below regarding our in-session Q & A process


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Attendees

 * Attended:
 * AdamPease
 * PeterYim
 * FabianNeuhaus
 * TedGordon (Millennium Project - WFUNA)
 * JimSchoening
 * PatCassidy
 * CameronRoss
 * Lorrie Fava (MIRARCO, Ontario, CANADA)
 * SteveRay
 * DuaneNickull
 * DougHolmes
 * AndrewPotter
 * BillMcCarthy
 * PatrickDurusau
 * SeanBarker
 * KenBaclawski
 * DavidHarris


 * Expected (and who may have joined us after the roll call):
 * MitchRinger
 * Osman Ashkani (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran)


 * Regrets:
 * Kathleen Chapman (Boeing)
 * MatthewWest
 * ChristianeFellbaum


 * ...(to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation.)...
 * ...(to register for participation, please add your name (plus your affiliation, if you aren't already a member of the community) above, or e-mail  so that we can reserve enough resources to support everyone's participation.)...


 * Regrets:

Agenda & Proceedings

 * Mr. Adam Pease, CEO of Articulate Software will be our invited speaker at this session. He will be giving a talk on: "The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) at Age 7: Progress and Promise"


 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AdamPease_20070906/AdamPease_2007a.jpg . [picture of Mr. Adam Pease]
 * Title: The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) at Age 7: Progress and Promise


 * Abstract: (by AdamPease)


 * Seven years have elapsed since the birth of the SUMO project (http://www.ontologyportal.org) in the summer of the year 2000. This talk will describe the SUMO, it's history, and promise for the future. The structure of SUMO will be covered along with decisions in representation that make it practical and powerful for inference. The SUMO domain ontologies will be described. The annual SUMO prize will be discussed, along with the SUMO submission to the TPTP theorem proving test set and competition. Several applications of SUMO in both the research and commercial world will be discussed.


 * Session Format and Agenda:
 * this will be virtual session over a phone conference setting, augmented by shared computer screen support
 * 1) The session will start with a brief self-introduction of the attendees (~10 min.)  [We will be skipping this if there are more than 20 participants.]
 * 2) Introduction of the invited speaker
 * 3) Presentation by our invited speaker Mr. Adam Pease (~60 min.)
 * 4) Q&A and Open discussion (~30 min.) [Kindly identify yourself before speaking.]


 * Bio of Mr. Adam Pease:


 * Adam Pease is CEO of Articulate Software. He has led research in ontology, linguistics, and formal inference, including development of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO), the Controlled English to Logic Translation (CELT) system, the Core Plan Representation (CPR), and the Sigma knowledge engineering environment. Sharing research under open licenses, in order to achieve the widest possible dissemination and technology transfer, has been a core element of his research program and his products have been downloaded by thousands of people around the world.


 * Mr. Pease's prepared slides can be accessed by pointing your web browsers to:
 * http://ontolog.cim3.net/file/resource/presentation/AdamPease_20070906/Suggested-Upper-Merged-Ontolog_SUMO--AdamPease-20070906.ppt
 * links to additional relevant resources:
 * URL to the SUMO project - http://www.ontologyportal.org
 * URL to the SIGMA Knowledge Engineering Environment (Sigma-KEE) - http://sigma.ontologyportal.org:4010/sigma/KBs.jsp
 * (please post any additional resources here)
 * Any material outside of the prepared presentation, if they are called up during the session, may be shared under the VNC session detailed above

Questions, Answers & Discourse:

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 * For those who have further questions or remarks on the topic, please [mailto:ontolog-forum@ontolog.cim3.net post them to the [ontolog-forum]] so that everyone in the community can benefit from the discourse.


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 * Session ended 2007.09.06 12:06 pm PST

Session Recording of this Panel Session

 * To download the audio recording of the session, click here
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 * Conference Date and Time:	6-Sep-2007 10:36am~12:06pm Pacific Daylight Time
 * Duration of Recording:	1 Hour 30 Minutes
 * Recording File Size:         9.70 MB (in mp3 format)
 * Telephone Playback:
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 * Conference ID: 5823120#
 * Recording Reference Number:	112484#
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