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Written by Desdemona Bandini (GPSS Writer) | 09 March 2011
Posted in GSG Blog - Miscellaneous

Dr. Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar
College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnice
Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before
moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is
Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and
he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language
Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past,
Software Engineering. Dr. Welty is a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange
Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal
Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is president of KR.ORG, on the
editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The
Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working
Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co-developed the OntoClean
methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and
ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications.
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