Help Wanted: LISP Semantic Web Project

Brandon Werner is starting a new semantic web project called cl-semantic. He is also looking for help. Looks like an interesting project just because everyone else is writing code in Java.

Project Description:

This is research using Lisp to develop macros for generating and processing semantic data and programmatically manipulating and generating OWL, similar (or dead on) Racer System’s RacerMaster, which is RacerPro as an object code library. It is also hoped that this project will apply speed paths based off of research from Eugene Agichtein & Silviu Cucerzan regarding predicting performance of relational extraction tasks (RE). This project seeks to re-create some of the work done with RacerPro, however the focus of this project will be on developing a language model for Reasoning Systems to allow for an open-source and vibrant community of developers to continue the work of improving reasoning systems to drive the Semantic Web.

This is how he sees the project progressing:

develop parsing of OWL Lite / OWL DL documents (using Wilber).

develop easy to use macros for T-Boxes, A-Boxes, ect.

grab a whole bunch of PhDs and get them to implement SHIQ for us.

implement the OWL-QL query processing system for compatibility.

implement the high-level language model for easy manipulation of the ontologies.

give it Java wrappers or use Allegro?s and make people pay for that much.

connect to Protege using simple TCP/IP or some protocol we can all agree on.

beer for all the developers on me!