[topicmapmail] Knowledge Representation and Databases
Franklin Wayne Poley
culturex@vcn.bc.ca
Mon, 30 Jun 2003 16:58:11 -0700 (PDT)
Consider the sub lesson of "machine psychology" (below)
<http://www.geocities.com/websitebuilding101>. This is a database. It also
represents the knowledge of how to use the PageBuilder program to build a
web site. Now the problem is this: how do we ACCESS that database?
The standard www search engine? If I Google on "How do I scan a picture in
and upload it to a Geocities web site", Google will laugh at me. However,
once world knowledge is in those databases and NARROWED DOWN, the problem
becomes solveable.
There are only so many questions one can ask of such a narrowed down
selection of knowledge. I have put the main ones on a menu. But a PLAIN
LANGUAGE SEARCH ENGINE specially designed for that particular subject will
also do the job. A given question also has only so many paraphrasings, eg
"How do I type text?" "How do I do text?" "How does one put text on a web
page?" "Text...eh?" and so on. Thus once the user has his or her focus
correctly narrowed to ask only the questions appropriate to the
knowledge-database, the search engine for the subject matter can be
developed.
Expand this concept to the 2,000+ courses which MIT wants to spend
$100,000,000 on over the decade and use it more wisely than it is being
used now and what do you get? A giant AI with super-human capabilities
because there is no IQ test item which is not either explicitly or
implicitly a Q-A set: and this SHAI can be accessed by NLP, natural
language.
FWP
<http://www.geocities.com/machine_psychology>
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Carsten Lutz wrote:
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> 10th International Workshop on
> KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION MEETS DATABASES
> (KRDB-2003)
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> *** DEADLINE EXTENSION ***
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> http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/
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> Hamburg (Germany), September 15-18, 2003
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> With a focus on:
> Knowledge Representation and Databases
> for the Semantic Web
>
> In conjunction with:
> KI 2003 (26th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
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> The paper submission deadline for KRDB-2003 has been extended to
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> *** July, 16 ***
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> and other important dates have also been changed; please see the
> "Important Dates" section below.
>
>
> ----------- Call for papers
>
> The 10th International KRDB Workshop continues the tradition of annual
> international workshops devoted to facilitate cross-fertilization
> between the fields of knowledge representation (KR) and databases (DB),
> started in 1994. KRDB-2003 will be held in Hamburg (Germany),
> September 2003, as a workshop of the 26th German Conference on
> Artificial Intelligence (KI-2003), see http://www.ki2003.de/.
>
> KRDB is a forum for exchanging ideas between DB and KR researchers.
> Equally important is the KRDB tradition of stimulating the discussion
> between researchers and practitioners. As every year, KRDB 2003
> focusses on a selected topic.
>
>
> ----------- Topic
>
> Databases have always been a very important issue for the World Wide
> Web, and, conversely, the WWW has stimulated interesting research on
> databases, for example in the area of semi-structured data. Due to the
> recent and immense interest in the semantic web initiative, knowledge
> representation has also gained a considerable amount of attention by
> the WWW community, and the pollinating impact of this fact on research
> in knowledge representation is already clearly visible. For these
> reasons, the focus of KRDB-2003 is on
>
> Knowledge Representation and Databases for the World-Wide Web.
>
> For the workshop, we thus solicit contributions that address the
> interplay between knowledge representation and databases, particularly
> in contexts related to the World-Wide Web. Specific issues we would
> like to discuss are:
>
> * Languages and techniques required to support a semantic web
> * Construction and maintenance of large ontologies for use in the WWW
> * Web service modeling and declarative web service retrieval
> * Context adaption, user models, and adaptive web systems
> * Query languages for the Web and semi-structured data
> * Data modeling and typing for XML and semi-structured data
>
> We also solicit submissions that concern the relationship of knowledge
> representation and databases, but do not fall inside this year's
> selected topic.
>
> ----------- Invited Speakers
>
> * An invited talk will be given by Diego Calvanese, University of Rome
> "La Sapienza".
>
>
> ----------- Program Committee
>
> * Alex Borgida (Rutgers University, New Jersey)
> * Stefan Conrad (University of Duesseldorf, Germany)
> * Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy)
> * Nicola Henze (University of Hannover, Germany)
> * Bertin Klein (DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany)
> * Ralf Kuesters (Stanford University, USA)
> * Gerhard Lakemeyer (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
> * Massimo Marchiori (University of Venice, Italy)
> * David Toman (University of Waterloo, Canada)
> * Gottfried Vossen (University of Muenster, Germany)
>
>
> ----------- Organizing Committee
>
> Francois Bry (University of Munich, Germany)
> Francois.Bry@informatik.uni-muenchen.de
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> Carsten Lutz (TU Dresden, Germany)
> lutz@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de
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> Ulrike Sattler (TU Dresden, Germany)
> sattler@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de
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> Mareike Schoop (RWTH Aachen and University of Muenster, Germany)
> schoop@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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>
> ----------- Important Dates (Updated!)
>
> Paper Submission Deadline July 16, 2003
> Acceptance Notification July 30, 2003
> Final Version Due August 22, 2003
> The Workshop September 15-18, 2003 (one day only)
>
>
> ----------- Proceedings
>
> The workshop proceedings will be electronically published in the CEUR
> series of workshop proceedings at
>
> http://www.CEUR-WS.org/
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> At the workshop, a hard copy of the proceedings will be handed out to
> the participants.
>
>
> ----------- Information for authors
>
> Your submission should be no longer than 12 pages formatted
> according to the example LaTeX file available at
>
> http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/KRDB-2003/
>
> Please avoid headers, footers, and page numbering.
>
> Submissions should be sent by July 16, 2003 as self-contained
> standard Postscript attachments to:
>
> lutz@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de
>
>
> ----------- Registration Information
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> Participants can choose to register for KRDB-2003 and the main KI-2003
> Conference (210,- Euros) or to register only for the KRDB workshop
> (60,- Euros). In either case, registration is via the official KI-2003
> webpage, and the official KI-2003 deadlines apply.
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