'Realistic Usage vs Scientific Pursuit' - EXPERT Business Showcase - Rome 2016

1. Realistic Usage vs Scientific Pursuit:
What is Ontology Really for
in the Industry?
Liling Tan
Saarland University, Germany
@alvations

2. To bridge the gap between
industry and ontology research
 More domain specific data and discoveries
 True application mindfulness
 Open data flow
Conclusion

3. A collection of knowledge
in a “related” manner.
What is an Ontology?

4. A collection of knowledge
in a “related” manner.
What is an Ontology?

5. Scientific work on ontology focuses on:
 Creating / combining / extending existing
generic ontologies
 Validating ontology induction methods
 Using ontologies to improve NLP / MT
technologies (seldom)
What is an Ontology?

8. Ontologies are used as value-adding
knowledge bases for various purposes
Industrial Usage

12. Scientific Preference Industry Needs
Focus Experimental Application-based
Data Mostly open,
sometimes closed
Mostly closed,
sometimes open
Domain Generic (changing) Domain specific
Licensing Non-commercial Willing to pay for
service,impossibleto
work on NC
Science vs Industry

13.  Created simple rule-based and sophisticated
neural systems to induce ontologies
 Can be adapted to match product reviews to categories / other
products
 Validated experiments on using knowledge-
base terms in MT
 Can be used for terminology standardization in MT
 Create adaptive dictionary + ontological
search to match resume-to-jobs
EXPERT Ontology Innovations

14.  Created simple rule-based and sophisticated
neural systems to induce ontologies
 Can be adapted to match product reviews to categories / other
products
 Validated experiments on using knowledge-
base terms in MT
 Can be used for terminology standardization in MT
 Create adaptive dictionary + ontological
search to match resume-to-jobs
EXPERT Ontology Innovations

15. Would you hire me?
Liling Tan
Saarland University, Germany
@alvations