Re: [legalruleml] Fwd: [members] Palmirani and Durusau named OASIS Distinguished Contributors

[Tara Athan <taraathan@gmail.com>]

On 8/13/15 4:42 AM, monica.palmirani wrote:

Hi Tara

it is mentioned in in my bio here: https://www.oasis-open.org/people/distinguished-contributor/monica-palmirani
You know that LegalRuleML is like a "baby" for me.

I am preparing the new version of the documentation for the next meeting.
Some feedbacks from RuleML Symposium and from the tutorial session in order to take in care ?

I thought I sent this to the LegalRuleML list after the tutorial, but apparently I sent it to the wrong email address:

I got a lot of questions from the tutorial presentation.

There was interest in how LegalRuleML will be adapted to the individual legal systems, and then how would they interoperate.

A student (Xin Sun) with some background in deontic knowledge wanted to know if our Permission concept is only positive permission. ( I waffled.)  On Monday he presented a paper about STIT (http://www.slideshare.net/ruleml2012/ruleml2015-inputoutput-stit-logic-inputoutput-stit-logic), which appears to be a deontic logic which adds agency to propositional logic.

There was a little confusion about the expressivity of an RDF-based syntax - it was necessary to explain that, like OWL in RDF/XML syntax, the expressivity is not limited by the utilization of an RDF metamodel. There was additionally interest in the application of defeasibility at lower expressivitiies. After some discussion, we concluded that defeasibility is not relevant at the level of RDFS or less unless there is an explicit mechanism for asserting conflicts, which would increase the expressivity of the language.

There was also a question about the reasons for the selection of XML, especially since there was an earlier presentation by Geoff Sutcliffe in which he heavily critisised XML.

There was a law student in the tutorial (Christine from Brazil) who is developing a legal ontology . She wanted to know if LegalRuleML would have its own legal ontology. I asked her to send me her papers.

I met Sagar Sunkle from Tata Consultancy in India who is using DR-prolog for proofs of regulatory GRC (governance, risk and compliance). An interesting twist is the explanation of non-compliance for purpose of negations.

I spoke to Tom Gordon this morning (who did not attend the LegalRuleML tutorial). He did attend the API4KP presentation, and managed to divert the Q&A period to a discussion with a question about the uptake of MOF metamodels, which was answered at length by John Hall.

Last but not least, thanks so much for having taken in care the tutorial session on behalf of all the LegalRuleML group.

Your welcome. It was enjoyable to be part of the RW summer school.

Have a good week-end (and happy Feriae Augusti - Ferragosto),

BTW, if anyone hasn't seen this movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277728/) I highly recommend it.

Tara

Monica




Il 12/08/2015 20:59, Tara Athan ha scritto:

Great work, Monica

(too bad they didn't mention LegalRuleML)

Tara

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Subject:	[members] Palmirani and Durusau named OASIS Distinguished Contributors
Date:	Wed, 12 Aug 2015 11:25:21 -0400
From:	Scott McGrath <scott.mcgrath@oasis-open.org>
To:	Members <members@lists.oasis-open.org>

OASIS is proud to announce Monica Palmirani and Patrick Durusau have been named Distinguished Contributors to OASIS.

Distinguished Contributors are recognized for their Introduction of new work, influence and visibility in the industry, ability to build consensus, leadership and service.Their participation substantially raises the quality and breadth of OASIS technical work.

Monica has been a significant contributor to the LegalXML community since 2010.  Her leadership in the Member Section Steering Committee, LegalDoc ML and LegalCiteM Technical Committees has been a significant part of these groups' success.  These activities, helped bring Akoma Ntoso (a globally respected project with origins in Africa) to OASIS and attracted many new members from industries, countries and regions not frequently active in the standards space. 

Patrick's service to OASIS is at two levels.  As a TC member and co-chair he has been influential in a variety of TCs but most noteworthy the Office TC and several of its Subcommittees.  The resulting specifications have enabled a new industry of productivity tools now in use around the globe.  Patrick was a significant force in the work to prepare the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications Standard for submission and ultimate acceptance as ISO/IEC 26300. Patrick's influence extends outside his TC work. His review and submission of over 650 comments in 30 Public Reviews reflects an exemplar dedication to specification quality.

Monica and Patrick join the Distinguished Contributor hall of fame at  https://www.oasis-open.org/member-roster/distinguished-contributors and are now eligible for all the benefits thereof.

Please join me in  congratulating this year's recipients,

Scott...

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