ARC@ORU research seminar series

ARC@ORU - Knowledge Engineering with Neurosymbolic AI

June 9th, 13:00 - 14:00, Innovasalen, ARC (former "Labbet").

This ARC seminar has been organised with financial support from the Unit of computer science and the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems. 

Speaker

Cogan Shimizu, assistant professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio, USA, where he directs the Knowledge and Semantic Technologies (KASTLE) Laboratory.

Shimizu's expertise is in knowledge engineering, broadly defined. However, he is particularly interested in human-centred methodologies for eliciting and modelling knowledge, usually in the form of ontologies, and emphasizing the use of reusable knowledge patterns. Recently, though, and especially with the emergence of generative AI, Cogan has been exploring the use of such tools to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of knowledge engineering through such tools. In particular, the intersection of these domains, called Neurosymbolic AI is a current research focus.

Shimitzu is visiting the Unit of computer science and the Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems a few days in June, for research collaboration.

About the talk

Knowledge Engineering was historically important through the golden age of AI, particularly before the AI winter. Since then, neural systems have come to the forefront, especially through incredible applications and outcomes from deep learning. Yet now, in the era of generative AI, it has become important again: from grounding facts output from these large language models, to assisting in scene generation during image generation, and so many others. Curating, modelling, and expressing knowledge has become an important role for providing formally correct data for training or graph data for retrieval augmented generation.

In this talk, Professor Shimizu explores the various ways that his research lab is utilizing these tools in the opposite manner: how can they be made useful for improving our knowledge engineering practices. 

Program

13.00 - 13.05 Welcome and introduction, Hadi Banaee, postdoc researcher in Computer Science, Örebro University

13.05 - 13.40 Talk, Assistant Professor Cogan Shimizu

13.40 - 14.00 Questions and discussion