DAML Tools Breakout

0930-1045 Thursday, February 13, 2002

Adam Pease

Charter

Identify key issues in each area

Identify actionable recommendations over next six months (what, who, when)

Possible Issues

List of tools

Self-reported maturity

Use of DAML

Needs from other tools

Needs from DAML not currently met

Tools Being Created

This is a partial list, driven by who could make the meeting. For a full list see http://www.daml.org/tools/ and also http://reliant.teknowledge.com/RKF/

Mitch Kokar – Convisor

consistency checker – against daml semantics, daml axioms are moving target, remote use via web, needs deep ontologies

Elisa Kendall – Sandpiper

Ontologies in UML. Commercial tool- requires Rational Rose

Neil Goldman – Teknowledge LA

Powerpoint, briefing associate, downlodable, requires MSPowerpoint

Ralph Swick – MIT

Perl RDF Parser

Annotation Tool – downloadable

Wants: stronger DB for keeping triples, need DB for some level of inferencing

Tools Being Created

Jim Mayfield, John Hopkins

Haircut Retrieval engine to handle RDF and DAML. Used to crawl and index daml.org

One can give a word and gives statistically close words back (Airport -> Airplane, etc)

That is a service on daml.org

They index each daml document by text and daml-tags

Needs: Jena Robustness Issue (i.e., Jena breaks when it finds markup that is not well-formed) in order to make it easier for people to move from SIRPAC to Jena

Dale Richards – AFRL

“role of user of tools, application”

Tools Being Created

Mike Rimmer – NWDC

How we going to run some of this stuff over large network, consider new bandwith user

Need: intuition

Users: The person in the field, the acquisition military person, the daml developer

Mike Pool – IET

Needs: easy ontology query

Hal Hultgren – NWDC

“consumer”, interest in understanding the maturity of the tools

do we have a complete enough set of tools (mature enough) in order for the warfighter to use

understand organizational impact of new technologies (navy organizes around command structure -> how do you organize around information?

Tools Being Created

Mala Mehrotra - Pragati

Multi-viewpoint clustering analysis tool: brings up conceptual clusters (by seeing how different ontology parts are used in axioms together. Thus, clustering wrt to use of ontologies (in axioms), not wrt to their declaration)

Facade creation tool

Idea: morph ontologies for different apps, how to “color” them for the specific application.

Putting filters on the ontologies (facade creation)

Paul Neves – BBN:

Tools for Experimentation

Tools Being Created

Dave Roger – BBN:

DAML Validator, output in DAML

Uses RDF API, downloadable, has web interface, fairly mature

Need: instance editing, service that lets you browse ontologies so that as you are creating instances, you can go out and get other classes and instances that are related to what you are editing right now

Need: help to find ontologies that already express what you need.

Informal English comment might help to understand what is the content.

Common English words are available and have pointers into the ontologies.

But compound words are hard

Tools Being Created

Grit Denker – SRI:

Protégé plug-in for DAML+OIL (maybe hooking up to FACT reasoner)

DAML-OAA agent

SNARK – open source available soon (could be used for consistency checks on ontologies)

Need: Rules in DAML+Oil and inference engine

Lewis Hart – GRCI

Duet (plug-in for Rational rose and version for ArgoUML),

Soon downloadable, does not do OCL

Semantics based publish and subscribe engine. Subscription are based on xql (status chaotic)

Paul Kogut (not present):

Aero DAML – takes text and generates DAML. Available as web service (has built-in ontology)

Tools Being Created

Adam Pease – Teknowledge

DAML search engine, up 24/7 + download

Needs rdfs:label + same…As

Mike Dean (not present)

DAML DB

Needs

Trainable domain specific markup tools that output DAML

DAML-in -> NL out tool

Database

Inference engine

Murray: Machine assisted Markup tool for free text, reports, messages (also other kind of sources, like RDV, imagery or audio). Tool that conveniently takes message and marks it up. Doing briefing, spread-sheet -> want mark-up that is automatically derived. Mark-up is of higher importance than ontology authoring.

Domain specific mark-up tools

Human in the loop mark-up

COA editing

Needs

Neil Goldman: tools that enrich ontologies with more info that makes mark-up possible

HTML document, highlight all words (wrt given ontology) and help mark-up, word matching a lexicon and mapping the lexicon to an ontology.

Robust Jena API

Comprehension tool for DAML:

Best practices guide for writing DAML

Highlight salient concerts in an ontology

Too Much UML? Consistency checking?

Mapping best practices

Actions (more like recommendations)

Make JENA parser more forgiving

Markup tools

Coordinate

Mapping tools

UML


	Identify key issues in each area
	Identify actionable recommendations over next six months (what, who, when)


	List of tools
		Self-reported maturity
		Use of DAML
		Needs from other tools
		Needs from DAML not currently met


	This is a partial list, driven by who could make the meeting. For a full list see http://www.daml.org/tools/ and also http://reliant.teknowledge.com/RKF/

	Mitch Kokar – Convisor
		consistency checker – against daml semantics, daml axioms are moving target, remote use via web, needs deep ontologies
	Elisa Kendall – Sandpiper
		Ontologies in UML. Commercial tool- requires Rational Rose
	Neil Goldman – Teknowledge LA
		Powerpoint, briefing associate, downlodable, requires MSPowerpoint
	Ralph Swick – MIT
		Perl RDF Parser
		Annotation Tool – downloadable
		Wants: stronger DB for keeping triples, need DB for some level of inferencing


	Jim Mayfield, John Hopkins
		Haircut Retrieval engine to handle RDF and DAML. Used to crawl and index daml.org
		One can give a word and gives statistically close words back (Airport -> Airplane, etc)
		That is a service on daml.org
		They index each daml document by text and daml-tags
		Needs: Jena Robustness Issue (i.e., Jena breaks when it finds markup that is not well-formed) in order to make it easier for people to move from SIRPAC to Jena
	Dale Richards – AFRL
		“role of user of tools, application”


	Mike Rimmer – NWDC
		How we going to run some of this stuff over large network, consider new bandwith user
		Need: intuition
		Users: The person in the field, the acquisition military person, the daml developer
	Mike Pool – IET
		Needs: easy ontology query
	Hal Hultgren – NWDC
		“consumer”, interest in understanding the maturity of the tools
		do we have a complete enough set of tools (mature enough) in order for the warfighter to use
		understand organizational impact of new technologies (navy organizes around command structure -> how do you organize around information?


Mala Mehrotra - Pragati
	Multi-viewpoint clustering analysis tool: brings up conceptual clusters (by seeing how different ontology parts are used in axioms together. Thus, clustering wrt to use of ontologies (in axioms), not wrt to their declaration)
	Facade creation tool
		Idea: morph ontologies for different apps, how to “color” them for the specific application.
		Putting filters on the ontologies (facade creation)
Paul Neves – BBN:
	Tools for Experimentation


Dave Roger – BBN:
	DAML Validator, output in DAML
	Uses RDF API, downloadable, has web interface, fairly mature
	Need: instance editing, service that lets you browse ontologies so that as you are creating instances, you can go out and get other classes and instances that are related to what you are editing right now
	Need: help to find ontologies that already express what you need.
		Informal English comment might help to understand what is the content.
		Common English words are available and have pointers into the ontologies.
		But compound words are hard


	Grit Denker – SRI:
		Protégé plug-in for DAML+OIL (maybe hooking up to FACT reasoner)
		DAML-OAA agent
		SNARK – open source available soon (could be used for consistency checks on ontologies)
		Need: Rules in DAML+Oil and inference engine
	Lewis Hart – GRCI
		Duet (plug-in for Rational rose and version for ArgoUML),
		Soon downloadable, does not do OCL
		Semantics based publish and subscribe engine. Subscription are based on xql (status chaotic)
	Paul Kogut (not present):
		Aero DAML – takes text and generates DAML. Available as web service (has built-in ontology)


	Adam Pease – Teknowledge
		DAML search engine, up 24/7 + download
		Needs rdfs:label + same…As
	Mike Dean (not present)
		DAML DB


	Trainable domain specific markup tools that output DAML
	DAML-in -> NL out tool
	Database
	Inference engine
	Murray: Machine assisted Markup tool for free text, reports, messages (also other kind of sources, like RDV, imagery or audio). Tool that conveniently takes message and marks it up. Doing briefing, spread-sheet -> want mark-up that is automatically derived. Mark-up is of higher importance than ontology authoring.
	Domain specific mark-up tools
	Human in the loop mark-up
	COA editing


	Neil Goldman: tools that enrich ontologies with more info that makes mark-up possible
	HTML document, highlight all words (wrt given ontology) and help mark-up, word matching a lexicon and mapping the lexicon to an ontology.
	Robust Jena API
	Comprehension tool for DAML:
	Best practices guide for writing DAML
	Highlight salient concerts in an ontology
	Too Much UML? Consistency checking?
	Mapping best practices


	Make JENA parser more forgiving
	Markup tools
	Coordinate
		Mapping tools
		UML