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== Description ==  
== Description ==  


This is a Lotico Semantic Web event with Chris Welty
Linked Data in Watson:
Using Linked Data as Evidence for Natural Language Processing
Chris Welty
IBM Research


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.
Location
Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115
 
November 16, 2010 - 6pm
 
A team at IBM Research is working to build Watson, a computing system that can understand and answer complex questions with enough precision and speed to compete against the best human quiz show competitors http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/ As with the previous AI grand challenge attempted at IBM Research, (playing chess at a grand master level) the principle challenges for machines to achieve expert performance are fundamentally different than for people. For Watson, the challenge is not acquiring enough knowledge to answer questions, but understanding the questions well enough to exploit the knowledge it has. In this talk I will discuss the rather non-obvious role that linked open data has played in developing Watson.
 
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
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.
Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. His 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. He is best known as a co-developer of the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino, and as the co-chair of the W3C RIF working group.


==Attendee List==
==Attendee List==

Revision as of 11:13, 12 October 2010

Date

Nov 16, 2010


Location

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


Description

Linked Data in Watson: Using Linked Data as Evidence for Natural Language Processing Chris Welty IBM Research

Location Hynes Convention Center 900 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02115

November 16, 2010 - 6pm

A team at IBM Research is working to build Watson, a computing system that can understand and answer complex questions with enough precision and speed to compete against the best human quiz show competitors http://www.research.ibm.com/deepqa/ As with the previous AI grand challenge attempted at IBM Research, (playing chess at a grand master level) the principle challenges for machines to achieve expert performance are fundamentally different than for people. For Watson, the challenge is not acquiring enough knowledge to answer questions, but understanding the questions well enough to exploit the knowledge it has. In this talk I will discuss the rather non-obvious role that linked open data has played in developing Watson.

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. His 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. He is best known as a co-developer of the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino, and as the co-chair of the W3C RIF working group.

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
  • Veronika Zielinska
  • Peter Dixon-Moses
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