Ontolog Forum
Ontology Summit 2021: Ontology Generation and Harmonization
The Ontology Summit is an annual series of events that involves the ontology community and communities related to each year's theme chosen for the summit. The Ontology Summit was started by Ontolog and NIST, and the program has been co-organized by Ontolog and NIST along with the co-sponsorship of other organizations that are supportive of the Summit goals and objectives.
Description
Ontologies are a rich and versatile construct. They can be extracted, learned, modularized, interrelated, transformed, analyzed, and harmonized as well as developed in a formal process. This summit will explore the many kinds of ontologies and how they can be manipulated. The goal is to acquaint both current and potential users of ontologies with the possibilities for how ontologies could be used for solving problems.
- Track A: The Ontological Landscape
- Co-Champions: Ravi Sharma, Todd Schneider
Different types of ontologies have different uses and require different techniques. Some major types include: foundational, reference, domain, and application ontologies. The different types overlap. This track will survey the landscape of ontology types and propose guidelines on how to identify the type of an ontology and how to use it.
- Track B: Definitions
- Co-Champions: Gary Berg-Cross, Alex Shkotin
A definition is a formal statement of the meaning or significance of an entity, including words, phrases, classes and properties. Accordingly, definitions can serve as links between formal ontologies and informal ontologies as well as between different formal ontologies. Historical attempts to standardize terms included creating core metadata models and common conceptual models for combining data into a single representation. These however have largely failed to be adopted because of flawed conceptualizations, lack of community agreement, inadequate representation and thus amount to silos. Some progress has been made leveraging best practices including the use of ontological analysis and design. This track will survey the different notions and levels of formality of definitions and practical methods to harmonize a variety of semantic resources.
- Track C: Neuro-Symbolic Learning Ontologies
- Co-Champions: Douglas Miles, Cassiopeia Miles, Ram D. Sriram
Ontologies can now be created using automated techniques such as NLP and ML. This track will survey the current techniques, including neuro-symbolic and commonsense approaches that combine logic and language processing. The goal is to propose guidelines on the most appropriate use of the techniques.
- Track D: Sustainability of Ontologies
Many organizations, including government agencies, standards bodies and commercial firms, use ontologies and have developed tools for various ontological activities, such as creation, evolution, mapping and other forms of harmonization. This track will survey the extent to which organizations are addressing sustainability. One aspect of sustainability is for the ecosystem in which we all reside and how ontologies could help achieve sustainability. Another aspect is achieving sustainable ontologies in the communities served by organizations.
Purpose
As part of Ontolog’s general advocacy to bring ontology science and engineering into the mainstream, we endeavor to abstract a conversational toolkit from the sessions that may facilitate discussion and knowledge sharing amongst stakeholders relevant to the topic. Our findings will be supported with examples from the various domains of interest. The results will be captured in the form of the Ontology Summit 2021 Communiqué, with expanded supporting material provided on the web and in journal articles.
Process and Deliverables
Similar to our last fifteen summits, this Ontology Summit will consist of virtual discourse (over our archived mailing lists), virtual presentations and panel sessions at recorded video conference calls.
Meetings are at Noon US Eastern Time on Wednesdays.
- The Video Conference URL is https://bit.ly/3i1uPRl
- iPhone one-tap :
- +16465588656,,83077436914#,,,,,,0#,,822275# US (New York)
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- Telephone:
- Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd3SqdIOZl
- Meeting ID: 830 7743 6914
- Passcode: 822275
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- Chat Room: https://bit.ly/39PzQJW
- If the chat room is not available, then use the Zoom chat room.
Schedule
| Track | Session | |
|---|---|---|
| ConferenceCall 2021 02 03 | Introduction | Launch |
| ConferenceCall 2021 02 10 | A and D | The Ontological Landscape |
| ConferenceCall 2021 02 17 | B | Definitions |
| ConferenceCall 2021 02 24 | C | Neuro-Symbolic Learning Ontologies |
| ConferenceCall 2021 03 03 | A | The Ontological Landscape |
| ConferenceCall 2021 03 10 | A | The Ontological Landscape |
| ConferenceCall 2021 03 17 | B | Advantages of Formal Definitions |
| ConferenceCall 2021 03 24 | General | John Sowa |
| ConferenceCall 2021 03 31 | Synthesis | Synthesis |
| ConferenceCall 2021 04 07 | C | Neuro-Symbolic Learning Ontologies |
| ConferenceCall 2021 04 14 | D | Sustainability of Ontologies |
| ConferenceCall 2021 04 21 | A | The Ontological Landscape |
| ConferenceCall 2021 04 28 | B | Definitions |
| ConferenceCall 2021 05 05 | C | Neuro-Symbolic Learning Ontologies |
| ConferenceCall 2021 05 12 | Synthesis | Synthesis |
| ConferenceCall 2021 05 26 | Synthesis | Synthesis |
| ConferenceCall 2021 06 02 | Communiqué Workshop | |
| ConferenceCall 2021 06 09 | Communiqué Workshop | |
| ConferenceCall 2021 06 16 | Communiqué Workshop | |
| ConferenceCall 2021 06 30 | Communiqué Workshop |