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SUBJECT: Cycorp announces the winners of the 2006 annual Cyc prizes
Cycorp CEO Doug Lenat announces the winners of The 2006 Cyc Prize Competition, an annual competition
for publications and proposals involving OpenCyc and/or ResearchCyc.
The 2006 Cyc Prizes winners are:
Best research paper involving OpenCyc or ResearchCyc
Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, Department of Computer Science, Polytechnic School,
University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
Miltiadis Lytras, Department of Management Science and Technology, ELTRUN—The Research Center, Athens University of Economics and Business, Athens, Greece
Elena Rodríguez, Computer Science Studies, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Elena García-Barriocanal, Department of Computer Science, Polytechnic School, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
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"Integrating Descriptions of Knowledge Management Learning Activities into Large Ontological Structures: A Case Study"
Abstract: Ontologies have been recognized as a fundamental infrastructure for advanced approaches to Knowledge Management (KM) automation,
and the conceptual foundations for them have been discussed in some previous reports. Nonetheless, such conceptual structures
should be properly integrated into existing ontological bases, for the practical purpose of providing the required support for
the development of intelligent applications. Such applications should ideally integrate KM concepts into a framework of commonsense
knowledge with clear computational semantics. In this paper, such an integration work is illustrated through a concrete case study,
using the large OpenCyc knowledge base. Concretely, the main elements of the Holsapple and Joshi KM ontology and some existing work
on e-learning ontologies are explicitly linked to OpenCyc definitions, providing a framework for the development of functionalities
that use the built-in reasoning services of OpenCyc in KM activities. The integration can be used as the point of departure for the
engineering of KM-oriented systems that account for a shared understanding of the discipline and rely on public semantics provided
by one of the largest open knowledge bases available.
Best research proposal utilizing OpenCyc or ResearchCyc
Francesca A. Lisi,
Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari
Via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy
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”Refining the ResearchCyc ontology with Inductive Logic Programming”
Abstract: In this research proposal we consider the Ontology Refinement problem of
finding subconcepts of a known concept (reference concept) in a given ontology
in the light of new knowledge coming from a data source. These
subconcepts are discovered by looking for frequent association patterns between
the reference concept and other concepts also occurring in the existing
ontology. They are called emerging concepts because they are concepts whose
only extension is determined at this stage of discovery. Since multiple patterns
can have the same set of supporting individuals, an open issue is to
determine the intension for each emerging concept. We intend to define a
choice criterion obtained by composing two orthogonal biases: a language
bias and a search bias. As a testbed for our approach to one such Ontology
Refinement problem, we intend to use slices of the ResearchCyc ontology.
Honorable Mention
Jeff Zhuk, Internet Technology School, USA
Boris Morose, Afeka – Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Israel
Sofi Gileles, Afeka – Tel-Aviv Academic College of Engineering, Israel
The winners of the Best Research Paper and Best Research Proposal will present their works
to Cycorp staff and guests during an award dinner and colloquium at the Cycorp offices on June 16, 2006.
Congratulations to the winners and many thanks for all the other wonderful entries!
Details of next year's contest will be announced in the Fall.
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