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| − | The preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement will standardly | + | The preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement will standardly require the integration of information deriving from archeologists, biologists, geologists, GIS technicians, and atmospheric scientists. Information integration across these disciplines will succeed only if there are common frameworks for representing the types of entities in shared domains and common |
| − | + | mechanisms for identifying and reasoning about specific instances of these types and the relations between them. | |
| − | technicians, and atmospheric scientists. Information integration across | ||
| − | these disciplines will succeed only if there are common frameworks for | ||
| − | representing the types of entities in shared domains and common | ||
| − | mechanisms for identifying and reasoning about specific instances of | ||
| − | these types and the relations between them. | ||
| − | We propose an IGERT to train a future generation of | + | We propose an IGERT 1. to train a future generation of scientists in the theories and methods of information integration, 2. to train scientists in a variety of domains in the use of such theories and tools in solving practical problems they face in their research. These include the theories of ontology ? creating and |
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disseminating common controlled vocabularies ? and the tools, including | disseminating common controlled vocabularies ? and the tools, including | ||
GIS tools, of instance-level reasoning. We will foster projects to apply | GIS tools, of instance-level reasoning. We will foster projects to apply | ||
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5. Natural Language Understanding (Rohini Srihari ?) | 5. Natural Language Understanding (Rohini Srihari ?) | ||
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| + | Faculty interested thus far: | ||
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| + | Batta | ||
| + | Berman | ||
| + | Bittner | ||
| + | Ceusters | ||
| + | Donnelly | ||
| + | Goldberg | ||
| + | Halfon | ||
| + | Holm | ||
| + | Lasker(?) | ||
| + | Koepsell | ||
| + | Little | ||
| + | Mark | ||
| + | Perrelli | ||
| + | Ramanathan | ||
| + | Renschler | ||
| + | Smith | ||
| + | Yeh | ||
| + | Zhang | ||
| + | Zubrow | ||
to approach | to approach | ||
| − | Srihari | + | Rohini Srihari |
Ling Bian | Ling Bian | ||
Revision as of 18:28, 20 February 2007
Integrating Information
The preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement will standardly require the integration of information deriving from archeologists, biologists, geologists, GIS technicians, and atmospheric scientists. Information integration across these disciplines will succeed only if there are common frameworks for representing the types of entities in shared domains and common mechanisms for identifying and reasoning about specific instances of these types and the relations between them.
We propose an IGERT 1. to train a future generation of scientists in the theories and methods of information integration, 2. to train scientists in a variety of domains in the use of such theories and tools in solving practical problems they face in their research. These include the theories of ontology ? creating and disseminating common controlled vocabularies ? and the tools, including GIS tools, of instance-level reasoning. We will foster projects to apply and extend these tools to address new challenges of cross-disciplinary communication in a variety of biospatial domains at a variety of scales, environmental hazards, intelligence analysis, biodefense, epidemiology and public health.
Five Axes 1. Ontologies (Barry Smith)
2. Databases (Aidong Zhang)
3. Image / Map Analysis
4. Realtime Sensor Data
5. Natural Language Understanding (Rohini Srihari ?)
Faculty interested thus far:
Batta Berman Bittner Ceusters Donnelly Goldberg Halfon Holm Lasker(?) Koepsell Little Mark Perrelli Ramanathan Renschler Smith Yeh Zhang Zubrow
to approach Rohini Srihari Ling Bian