SUO: Re: SUO Ballot with 2 Questions
For the advocates of a monolithic SUO, consider:
1) monotheism
2) duotheism
3) polytheism
4) atheism
A) When do you expect to arrive at a definitive position on this debate?
B) When do you expect to have your definitive position universally
acclaimed? How will you accomplish this acceptance and how will you know it
is attained?
C) Is this an empirical debate?
Your actual task is harder, since you have not only to consider all actual
kinds of entities, many of which are as yet unknown, but all possible kinds.
D) What mechanisms will you use to assess your progress and resolve
disputes?
It's nice to know we'll never run out of work, but it's also nice to make a
bit of progress.
I vote 'yes' on the two motions below.
Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: <jim.s3@juno.com>
To: <standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org>
Cc: <jawbrey@oakland.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 18:04
Subject: SUO: SUO Ballot with 2 Questions
>
> ATTN Voting Members of IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working
> Group:
>
> 1. Please vote on the below two questions. Votes may be in the form of
> YES, NO, or ABSTAIN. The motion will pass if both (a majority of voting
> members either vote or acknowledge receipt of the ballot) and (YES votes
> are greater than [NO plus ABSTAIN votes]).
>
> 2. If you are unsure whether you are a voting member, see the list of
> voting members at http://suo.ieee.org/voting-members.txt.
>
> 3. If you choose not to vote, please acknowledge receipt of the ballot.
>
> 4. The period for voting will end at midnight EDT on June 13, 2003. If a
> majority of voting members have not yet voted or acknowledged, the chair
> may extend the period for voting and may remind those who have not
> responded.
>
> 5. Please email your vote to Jon Awbrey (copied above) and me, but not
> the SUO list, unless you specifically want your vote (and any comments)
> shared with everyone.
>
> Jim Schoening
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ballot Question #1:
>
> "Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group
> commence work on the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) version 1.52
> [April 25, 2003] posted at:
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/SUO/Merge.
> txt?rev=1.49&content-type=text/plain> (containing the ontology) and
> http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/FormalSUOdraft.rtf>
> (containing the text of the formal standards proposal) with the intent of
> developing it into a final SUO document. There is further intent to
> collaborate with the SUO group working on a joint library of modules
> project.
>
> Background: Information which is not part of the motion or proposed
> starter document, but which may be helpful in appreciating its value, is
> as follows. The SUMO was first released on Dec 9, 2000. The first and
> all subsequent revisions have been public releases. SUMO is being used
> by (a small number) of companies and research institutions around the
> world. It has been subject to formal verification by an automated
> theorem prover. It has been divided into 11 modules to simplify reuse.
> SUMO is small enough to be easily learned (approximately 1000 terms, 4000
> axioms, 750 rules) but large enough to cover, at a high level, any domain
> of interest. It is well-axiomatized, including many rules, not just a
> type structure. The language it is written in is defined at
> <http://suo.ieee.org/suo-kif.html>. SUMO has been written independently
> of any particular theorem prover and has been used in several different
> systems including LOOM and SNARK. SUMO has also been used in the
> creation of a number of other freely available products, as listed below
>
> - WordNet Mappings: We've now mapped, by hand, all of the
> approximately 100,000 WordNet synsets to SUMO concepts. In addition to
> the nouns, we've mapped the verbs, adjectives, and adverbs.
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SUO/>
>
> - SUMO-Compliant Domain Ontologies. These include ontologies for
> weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, Quality of Service ontology,
> covering computer systems and networks, Ecommerce Services ontology,
> Ontology of biological viruses, Financial ontology, Ontology of terrain
> features, an ontology of Government, and a Periodic table of the
> elements.
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/index.html#download>
>
> - LOOM Translator for SUMO
> <http://einstein.teknowledge.com:8080/Sumo2Loom/Sumo2Loom_register.jsp?fi
> leType=.tar&fileName=sumo2loom_b7.tar>
>
> - DAML translation of SUMO
> <http://reliant.teknowledge.com/DAML/SUMO.daml>
>
> - XML translation of SUMO
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/Merge-XML.txt> and KIF to
> XML translator <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/KIF2XML.txt>
>
> - open source browser download for SUMO
> <http://virtual.cvut.cz/kifb/en/>
>
> - on-line SUMO browser
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com:8080/rsigma/SKB.jsp?req=SC&skb=SUMO>
>
> All of these items are freely available through our Ontology home page:
> <http://ontology.teknowledge.com> or directly at the links above.
>
> Please insert vote here (YES, NO, or ABSTAIN): ( )
>
> --------End Ballot Question #1----------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Ballot Question #2:
>
> Should the IEEE P1600.1 Standard Upper Ontology Working Group (SUO)
> commence work on a project to develop a standard for ontology
> specification and registration, according to the following guidelines:
>
> 1. The standard shall be based on the contributions of three SUO
> candidate projects: IFF, OpenCyc, and SUMO.
>
> 2. The standard shall specify an ontology registry, such as the
> metadata registries specified by ISO/IEC IS 11179-3, but with extensions
> that are required to define ontologies and to relate them to one another.
>
> 3. The ontology registry shall be organized as a collection of
> modules, related in a generalization/specialization hierarchy.
>
> 4. Each module shall consist of a theory together with
> documentation and other metadata. The theory shall consist of axioms
> and definitions stated in a logic-based language, such as those in the
> Common Logic (CL) framework.
>
> 5. The standard shall include the specification of a
> methodology for testing the theory part of any module for consistency,
> relating theories to one another in the generalization/specialization
> hierarchy, and combining two or more theories to derive a new theory
> that is larger and more specialized than the theories from which it was
> derived.
>
> Please insert vote here (YES, NO, or ABSTAIN): ( )
>
> --------End Ballot Question #2---------------------------------
>
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