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Tendencies and purpose matter
The basic formal ontology (BFO) offers a simple, elegant process model. It adds alethic and teleological semantics to the more procedural models, among which I would include NIST’s process...
View ArticleSimple problems with the semantic web
The standard for defining ontologies these days is OWL and Protege. Unfortunately, OWL lacks any notion of exceptions in inheritance or any other notion of defeasibility. So, although you may want to...
View ArticleEvent-centric BPM and goal-driven processing
The slides for my Business Rules Forum presentation on event semantics and focusing on events in order to simplify process definition and to facilitate more robust governance and compliance are at...
View ArticleNLP: depictive in an HPSG lexicon?
We’re working with the English Resource Grammar (ERG), OWL, and Vulcan’s SILK to educate the machine by translating textbooks into defeasible logic. Part of this involves an ontology that models...
View ArticleSBVR in OWL
In preparation for generating RIF and SBVR from the Linguist, we have produced an OWL ontology for the pertinent aspects of the SBVR specification. We hope that this is helpful to others and would...
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Knowledge acquisition using lexical and semantic ontology
In developing a compliance application based on the institutional review board policies of John Hopkins’ Dept. of Medicine, we have to clarify the following sentence: Projects involving drugs or...
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Higher Education on a Flatter Earth
We’re collaborating on some educational work and came across this sentence in a textbook on finance and accounting: All of these are potentially good economic decisions. We use statistical NLP but...
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Automatic Knowledge Graphs for Assessment Items and Learning Objects
As I mentioned in this post, we’re having fun layering questions and answers with explanations on top of electronic textbook content. The basic idea is to couple a graph structure of questions,...
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Affiliate Transactions covered by The Federal Reserve Act (Regulation W)
Benjamin Grosof, co-founder of Coherent Knowledge Systems, is also involved with developing a standard ontology for the financial services industry (i.e., FIBO). In the course of working on FIBO, he...
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Simply Smarter Intelligent Agents
Deep learning can produce some impressive chatbots, but they are hardly intelligent. In fact, they are precisely ignorant in that they do not think or know anything. More intelligent dialog with an...
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