Adam Pease
Encyclopedia
Adam Pease is an American
computer scientist
doing research in
Ontology (information science) and Formal reasoning.
He is best known as the Technical Editor of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
(SUMO) upper ontology
intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems.
His works include mapping SUMO to the WordNet
semantic lexicon, and also the
Sigma knowledge engineering environment
for the development
of formal ontologies. He has been a co-organizer of the SUMO $100 Challenges, the Annual SUMO Reasoning Prizes at CASC, and the Annual SUMO Prize, sponsored by his company Articulate Software. Adam Pease is an author of many ontology-related publications, his work on SUMO has been cited in hundreds of publications.
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computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
doing research in
Ontology (information science) and Formal reasoning.
He is best known as the Technical Editor of the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
Suggested Upper Merged Ontology
The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology or SUMO is an upper ontology intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems. It was originally developed by the Teknowledge Corporation and now is maintained by . It is one candidate for the "standard upper ontology"...
(SUMO) upper ontology
intended as a foundation ontology for a variety of computer information processing systems.
His works include mapping SUMO to the WordNet
WordNet
WordNet is a lexical database for the English language. It groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets...
semantic lexicon, and also the
Sigma knowledge engineering environment
Sigma knowledge engineering environment
In the computer science fields of knowledge engineering and ontology, the Sigma knowledge engineering environment is an open source computer program for the development of formal ontologies. It is designed for use with the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology...
for the development
of formal ontologies. He has been a co-organizer of the SUMO $100 Challenges, the Annual SUMO Reasoning Prizes at CASC, and the Annual SUMO Prize, sponsored by his company Articulate Software. Adam Pease is an author of many ontology-related publications, his work on SUMO has been cited in hundreds of publications.