[ontac-forum] New Ontology related applied R&D results!

[Lucian_Russell/ESI/CSC <Lucian_Russell/ESI/CSC@xxxxxxx>]

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I have received permission from Heather
McCallum-Bayliss to bring to the ONTAC forum’s attention the demos and
briefings that are the final session of Phase II of the Advanced Question
Answering for Intelligence (AQUAINT) program. The research in this program
is all unclassified. 

This program has been in progress since
2001 (two two-year Phases) and the results are impressive. 

It is to be held on both May 2nd and
May 3rd. The location is the University of MD Inn and Conference Center
in Adelphi Maryland (MD), USA. It is the same program each day, and demos
are staffed 100% of the time. 

This on-site invitation is offered
to U.S, Federal Government employees.

However, for those who are not Federal
Government employees there is significant information about the AQUAINT
projects’ findings already posted on the Web (key word: AQUAINT – Google
has 96,100 mentions). For further details you can e-mail the PIs. Again,
the research in this program is all unclassified. 

Some issues of interest to the Ontology
Community: 
1. Automated Ontology Generation: One
of the participants, LCC (PowerAnswer; PACE) has developed an automatic
Ontology generator. It has been greeted with great interest in a recent
major test, one combining it with 5 other tools that address hypothesis
reasoning.
2. Projects demonstrate the integrated
use of multiple linguistic hierarchical and network constructs, e.g. WordNet,
Framenet. 
3. For events there are several
new knowledge representations for verbs (other than “IS-A” relationships.)
AQUAINT participants have found that Verb-based event frames are more effective
than other constructs in detecting events. These frames are used in several
projects:  SUNY Albany, Ferret, CiceroCustom, and the Brandeis project
focusing on the semantics of temporal relationships.

Additional details, including a draft
agenda, can be found at https://conference.brtrc.com/Aquaint2006

Although access to register can be gained
by entering your email address or name in the appropriate section, only
individuals who have already received an invitation will have access to
register. To obtain this invitation, Federal Government employees can send
an e-mail to Marg Schulenberg at mschulen@xxxxxxxxx 703.205.1551 with a
cc to Jim Stright (jrstrig@xxxxxxx) so the program can keep track
of who's coming.

___________________________
Lucian Russell, PhD
Sr. Consulting Engineer
Enforcement, Security and Intelligence Division
Computer Sciences Corporation
8613 Lee Highway, Mail Code 276
Fairfax VA, 22031
Ph: (703)-207-6136
Fax: (703)-645-0511
Cell:(703)-340-5807


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