Speaker:
Prof. Hai Zhuge
Institute of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Title:
Interactive Semantics
Date:
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Time:
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location:
EIT 3142
Abstract:
Much research pursues machine intelligence through better representation
of semantics. What is semantics? People in different areas view semantics
from different facets although it has been helping humans communicate with
each other through civilization. Some researchers believe that human has
some innate structures in mind to understand each other, and the gene
of the species determines the structure. Then, what is the structure?
Some researchers argue that human constructs the structure through
constant learning. Then, how the process is like? This talk concerns
these issues in the context of establishing the interactive semantics in
the future cyber-society. Research starts from distinguishing social
semantics from natural semantics, and then studies the interactive
semantics in the category of social semantics. The key viewpoints include
(1) semantics cannot be accurately represented but it can be indicated,
explained to a certain extent, and the indication and explanation of
semantics can be refined only through interaction.; (2) semantics is
generated, complemented, and evolves during interaction in a certain
environment; and, (3) semantics is an open, dynamic and self-organized
interactive system. An interactive semantic base is proposed as the
interaction basis in cyber-society. The semantic lens is proposed to
observe semantics from different facets, abstraction levels and times.
Biography:
Hai Zhuge is a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is also
the Chief Scientist and the former director of the academy's Key Lab
of Intelligent Information Processing. He is the Chief Scientist of the
China National Semantic Knowledge Grid Research Project and the founder
of the China Knowledge Grid Research Group at the Institute of Computing
Technology. His research concerns the Knowledge Grid methodology,
Resource Space Model (RSM), Semantic Link Network model (SLN), and
Knowledge Flow. He is an advisory editor of the Future Generation Computer
Systems, the associate editor-in-chief of Journal of Computer Science and
Technology, the associate editor of Knowledge and Information Systems,
and the associate editor of IEEE Intelligent Systems. He also serves
as the reviewer of several national foundations such as NSF of Austria,
NSF of China, SFI of Ireland, and NSF of USA. He is the author of The
Knowledge Grid (1st Edition in 2004 and 2nd Edition in 2009) and The Web
Resource Space Model. He was the top scholar in relevant area during
2000 to 2004 according to a Journal of Systems and Software assessment
report. His publications appeared in CACM, Computer, AI, IEEE TKDE,
IEEE TPDS, and ACM TOIT, and was cited by over 1000 papers published
in journals and conferences such as IEEE TKDE, ACM TAAS, WWW, ICSE and
ISWC. He received 2007's Innovation Award of China Computer Federation
for his fundamental theory of the Knowledge Grid. He is a senior member
of IEEE and CCF.
