<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Dear Common-Lisp:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would like to host a project on your site regarding writing a macro collection for extracting and generating relationships between information using semantic ontologies for the Semantic Web, which will be tested using MIT's <A href="http://simile.mit.edu/piggy-bank/index.html">Piggy Bank </A>extraction project, of which I am a member. I am in the process of researching using Lisp to develop macros for generating and processing semantic data, particularly the processing of OWL & RDF vocabularies and establishing relationships faster using functional programming to rapidly generate ontological relationships. The exact idea is presented in a paper: “Building Ontological Data From Lists For Semantic Processing”, which is being readied for Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2006). It relies heavily on s-xml, cl-prevelance and cells. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This will be of general interest since it will allow anyone using RDF/OWL to "annotate" their websites to use these macros to parse and generate their ontological relationships faster. Parsing and creating these relationships will be even more incredible given Lisp's ability to manage large amounts of similar relationship atoms together in a relationship that can persisted on the back end without any framework code. So much research in the actual code implementation of OWL/RDF parsing is locked in to Algol thinking, and I believe it could be better represented, and give Lisp some good visibility, to try to tackle this problem from the functional perspective and build small light-weight parsing algorithms that can build on top of each other to establish relationships instead of the brute-force parsing now done in a top-down fashion using C++, C# and Java in the Simile project at MIT.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Name: cl-semantic</DIV><DIV>Researchers: Brad McDonald, Brandon Werner, Mike Ramsey</DIV><DIV>Presentation in November 2006 of work: CIKM2006 conference</DIV><DIV>License: Apache 2.0 license</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I also have other open source projects of high-visibility including Fatima (<A href="https://fatima.dev.java.net/">JavaPress</A>) which is hosted on Java.net A full list of the work and research I've done and a link to my articles and publications can be found on my website.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks!</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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