Jeroen van Grondelle

Two weeks after visiting the CNL Community, my colleagues Ronald Heller and Freek van Teeseling and I visited the 17th edition of the EKAW Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

Ronald and I presented our work on pattern sentences to the knowledge representation community. We got some good responses and interesting questions.

It was good to see that EKAW is developing a serious focus on proving that the technologies developed in this field can scale up to actual use. This year, an in-use paper category was introduced and I think this might develop into an important platform research needed to scale up some of the technologies to enterprise scale. If the number of contributions will rise, and the right reviewing criteria are developed, this could be a great contribution to the conferences offering.

On friday, we presented a full tutorial on our products and how they implement some of the EKAW ideas in practice today. Reactions were great. People really enjoyed seeing ideas from their field of expertise being put to use. Also, the ease with which we created actual ontology driven applications that morning drew some enthusiastic responses.

The paper we presented appeared in volume 6317 of Springer’s LNAI series. A preprint can be downloaded here.

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