Residence USA Fields Computer Technology Name Adam Pease | Nationality American Known for SUMO, Sigma Role Computer scientist | |
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Books Ontology: A Practical Guide | ||
Formal Ontology and the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO), Adam Peace, 20110822
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 thousands of publications.