Using The Semantic Web To Answer Questions

Date

Nov 16, 2010

Location

Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 954-2000 

Description

This is a Lotico Semantic Web event with Chris Welty

Description: TBA , In this session Chris will address question answering with the semantic web. Please be advised that we will meet at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston for this special event which is kindly hosted by the Semantic Web Summit conference.

Bio

Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr. Welty is a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is president of KR . ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co-developed the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications.

Attendee List

(winner of the complementary Semantic Web Summit full conference ticket will be drawn from the list)

• Marco Neumann
• Chris Welty
• Marcus Trevisani
• Marc Shifflett
• Ashkhen Pogosyan
• Marc Donatiello
• Vasko Yordanov