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Description
Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr. Welty is a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is president of KR.ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co-developed the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications.
Lectures:
invited talk![]() as author at 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Busan 2007 , 13222 views |
keynote![]() as author at 2nd ESWC Summer School, Kalamaki 2012, 7596 views |
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invited talk![]() as author at 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) 2011, together with: Marko Grobelnik (introducer), 6141 views |
summary![]() as moderator at 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sydney 2013, together with: Carole Goble (presenter), Andreas Harth (presenter), Sean Bechhofer (presenter), Sweitze Roffel (presenter), Natasha Noy (presenter), Lora Aroyo (presenter), Tudor Groza (presenter), Eva Blomqvist (presenter), Josiane Xavier Parreira (presenter), Paul Groth (presenter), Harith Alani (presenter), 4362 views |
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panel![]() as author at 10th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Bonn 2011, together with: Jim Hendler (moderator), Michael Hausenblas, Martin Hepp, Ian Horrocks, Ivan Herman, 4542 views |
opening![]() as author at 12th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sydney 2013, 3766 views |
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summary![]() as presenter at 11th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Boston 2012, together with: Abraham Bernstein (moderator), Andreas Harth (presenter), Diana Maynard (presenter), Sweitze Roffel (presenter), David Huynh (presenter), Tania Tudorache (presenter), Evren Sirin (presenter), Jeff Heflin (presenter), Philippe Cudré-Mauroux (presenter), 3558 views |
lecture![]() as author at Research, 4933 views |
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panel![]() as author at 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Pasadena, together with: David Ferucci, Mark D. Thielen, Randall Hill, Jr., Kevin Delin, Raymond C. Perrault, Stephen Wolfram, 3715 views |
keynote![]() as author at 5th ESWC Summer School, Crete 2015, 1532 views |
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