meetings




Bremen, 22-24.02.2005
  • Minutes (password protected)
  • Topics
    • Project organization
    • Installation of tools (CASL, UDraw, Hets, Isabelle)
    • Ontology modularization and parametrization in CASL
    • Translation from CASL to OWL
    • Mathematical tools (category theory) for the integration and alignment of ontologies
    • Using DOLCE qualities for capturing aspects of language and linguistics
    • Using the treatment of roles proposed in Trento for capturing aspects of linguistic roles, in particular thematic roles and/or semantic participant roles

Trento, 04-08.04.2005
  • Minutes (password protected)
  • Topics
    • Project management
    • Approval of the website
    • Update of tools and introduction of the CASL-mode for emacs
    • Set up of a CVS repository for the project
    • Ontology Development with CASL and Hets
    • Linguistic Ontologies: relation between the Generalised Unpper Model (GUM) and DOLCE
    • Discussion of the first draft of the encoding of DOLCE in CASL

Trento, 27-29.06.2005
  • Minutes (password protected)
  • Topics
    • Project management
    • Update of tools
    • How to prove/verify theorems using Isabelle
    • Ontological knowledge for language generation
    • Ontological nature of ³site² and ³niche²
    • Discussion of the second version of the encoding of DOLCE in CASL

Bremen, 12-13.09.2005
  • Minutes (password protected)
  • Topics
    • Project organization
    • Update of tools
    • How to characterize the GUM notions of configuration, process, object, and circumstance in DOLCE
    • How to extend the CASL encoding of DOLCE to manage the links to other ontological options
    • The notions of weak and strong representation of a composition table
    • How to integrate different spatial representations using the DOLCE notion of quality space
    • Discussion of possible common papers