We are delighted to invite you to the kickoff day of the Swiss Center for Ontological Research!
Event Details
- Date. February 18, 2025
- Location. Espace-Tilo-Frey 1, Room R.O.12. Neuchâtel, Switzerland
No registration is required. If you would like to join us for lunch, please let us know, so we can book enough seats.
Please note that this is a fully in-person event.
Programme
- 09.30-10.15. Ludger Jansen (Brixen/Rostock). What I learnt as a philosopher in Applied Ontology
- 10.15-10.30. Coffee break
- 10.30-11.15. Barry Smith (Buffalo). The European Applied Ontology Landscape
- 11.15-12.00. Giovanna di Marzo Serungendo (Geneva). From Ontologies to Digital Services exploiting Semantic AI and Digital Twins
- 12.00-13.30. Lunch break
- 13.30-14.15. Jérémy Ravenel (naas.ai). Semantic Interoperability and Knowledge Graphs at the Rescue of Large Language Models
- 14.15-15.00. Massimiliano Carrara (Padua). Semantic information via identity (On how a little philosophy and logic could help tools for evaluating and refining ontologies)
- 15.00-15.15. Coffee break
- 15.15-16.15. Discussion: The future of SCOR
Abstracts
Barry Smith (Buffalo). The European Applied Ontology Landscape
I will focus primarily on the bad things, and not least on the Elementary Multiperspective Material Ontology (EMMO), and on what European ontologists might learn from 25 years of experience of ontology building in the USA concerning (1) use of language, (2) relation to philosophy, (3) relation to ontology users, and (4) the role of ontology future-proofing.
Giovanna di Marzo Serungendo (Geneva). From Ontologies to Digital Services exploiting Semantic AI and Digital Twins
Ontologies capture a knowledge domain. Combined with knowledge graphs and reasoning capabilities they provide a powerful tool for developing digital services equipped with this knowledge and its underlying semantics. Digital twins are digital representations of real-world artefacts and come in different levels. Among others the Intelligent Digital Twin brings together data and various AI techniques, including semantic AI. This presentation discusses these notions and reviews a series of concrete research projects in diverse domains (underground utility networks, tax administration, urban planning, regulations, or GLAMs) developed at the University of Geneva exploiting semantic AI and digital twins.