Session	Meeting
Duration	1 hour
Date/Time	November 13 2018 16:00 GMT
	8:00am PST/11:00am EST
	4:00pm GMT/5:00pm CET
Convener	KenBaclawski

Board of Trustees Meeting

Agenda

1. Governance

Board Members Meeting Schedule (Quarterly?) Board Chair

2. Ontology of Ontologies Series

This was started at the Ontology Summit 2007. The report is at http://bit.ly/2EiFXdw and the latest suggestion for continuing this topic is at http://bit.ly/2EovnBK

3. Other Business

4. Next Meeting

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Attendees

Proceedings

[11:01] ToddSchneider: I'll be delayed joining the Zoom meeting.

[11:10] MatthewWest1 morphed into MatthewWest

[11:11] ToddSchneider: Current Board Members:

John F. Sowa

Ken Baclawski

Leo Obrst

Mark Musen

Matthew West

Michael Grninger

Mike Bennett

Peter P. Yim (ex-officio)

Ram Sriram

Todd Schneider

Anatoly Levenchuk

Gary Berg-Cross

[11:13] Gary Berg-Cross: Discussing top level ontology issue.

[11:14] Gary Berg-Cross: Ken, are you recording this??

Added by Ken Baclawski: No, it is not being recorded. The chat transcript serves as the meeting minutes.

[11:23] Gary Berg-Cross: Quarterly meetings starting in January on a Tuesday from 11-noon Eastern time.

Added by Ken Baclawski: The quarterly meetings will be on the third Tuesday and reminder notices will be posted at least a month in advance. To be precise, the meetings will occur in January, April, July and October.

[11:23] ToddSchneider: I nominate Ken Baclawski as Chair

Added by Ken Baclawski: I agree to act as Chair during 2019. The new Chair will be decided at the October Quarterly meeting.

[11:32] Gary Berg-Cross: Discussing how to handle disagreements on the Forum and how much of an issue it is.

Added by Ken Baclawski: See the proposed procedure below.

[11:36] Gary Berg-Cross: John Sowa plans on briefing some of the issues of top level ontology requirements tomorrow.

[11:40] AnatolyLevenchuk: BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding Google AI Language (https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805). BERT is conceptually simple and empirically powerful. It obtains new state-of-the-art results on eleven natural language processing tasks, including pushing the GLUE benchmark to 80.4% (7.6% absolute improvement), MultiNLI accuracy to 86.7% (5.6% absolute improvement) and the SQuAD v1.1 question answering Test F1 to 93.2 (1.5 absolute improvement), outperforming human performance by 2.0.

[11:46] ToddSchneider: Is there a definition of 'language model'?

[11:56] ToddSchneider: Per Anatoly's suggestion how do we identify other 'situations' where effectively the goals of ontology are being pursued?

[12:07] AnatolyLevenchuk: One of my texts in Russian: https://ailev.livejournal.com/1449229.html

[12:10] ToddSchneider: Meeting ends @12:09 EST.

The purpose of the Ontolog Board of Trustees is:

1. To ensure that the Ontolog Community of Practice stays focused on its mission and principles, as described in the Ontolog Charter.

2. To ensure that the Ontolog Community thrives, succeeds, and grows as an active contributor to progress in the areas of its mission

3. To support Ontolog as an effective, open, independent, and collaborative, knowledge-building and knowledge-sharing community.

See http://ontologforum.org/index.php/ONTOLOG_BoardOfTrustees#Purpose

To further the purpose above, the Board of Trustees passed a motion on 13 November 2018 to follow a 3-step procedure for dealing with inappropriate behavior. The precise language would be initially formulated by Ken Baclawski. The motion was made by John Sowa and seconded by Ken Baclawski and passed unanimously. The following is the more precise language of the procedure:

In order to respond as quickly as possible to problematic situations, every member of the Board of Trustees takes responsibility for monitoring the Ontolog Forum mailing lists for instances of inappropriate behavior. Such behavior is most commonly in the form of the use of objectionable language in posts, such as angry or abusive messages. When such an instance is deemed to have occurred by a member of the Board of Trustees, the following procedure should be followed:

1. The member of the Board of Trustees that first notices the instance should send a personal note to the individual who was responsible for the instance with CC to ontolog-trustee@googlegroups.com. At this point, the communication with the individual(s) does not involve the community as a whole. This note should politely request that the individual(s) use appropriate language and behavior. Depending on the severity of the language used, the personal note may request that an apology be posted by the individual(s).

2. If the individual does not agree to the requests in the personal note of Step 1, either by continuing to engage in inappropriate behavior or by responding to the personal note in a negative manner, then the next step is to post a notice on the mailing list. In practice, such a posting would have already been done by some member of the community at this point, so the significance of the posting in Step 2 is to increase the pressure on the individual(s) and to confirm to the community that the Board of Trustees is aware of the problem and is working to resolve it.

3. If the individual(s) continue to engage in inappropriate behavior, then the final step is to permanently block the individual(s) from participation in any Ontolog Forum community activity. The Ontolog Board of Trustees must agree as a whole to this final step in the procedure.

Next Meetings

The next meeting will be held on 15 January 2019 at 11:00am US Eastern Time.