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March Madness: The Fascist Attack on Science
Trump Has Already Achieved a Lot.. Normally I keep my political views separate from my work in engineering and science. However, these...

Michael DeBellis
Apr 152 min read
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Using ChatGPT to Refine REGEX in SPARQL queries
Using ChatGPT to refine REGEX expressions in SPARQL queries to generate labels from IRIs

Michael DeBellis
Jan 132 min read
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The Complex Landscape of Modern Databases: Just because your database doesn't use SQL doesn't mean it's a NoSQL database
The modern developer is presented with a staggering number of databases with confusing names. This is an overview of the various kinds of...

Michael DeBellis
Jan 99 min read
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Correcting Errors in a Previous Post
Correcting an error in a previous post about Turing's famous proof.

Michael DeBellis
Dec 27, 20241 min read
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Using ChatGPT to Generate English Labels for a Spanish Ontology
I've been using ChatGPT to help with various kinds of analysis and coding tasks. Today I had the problem of generating English labels for...

Michael DeBellis
Nov 2, 20245 min read
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Integrating Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs to Implement Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Retrieval Augmented Generation is an architecture that integrates ontologies and LLMs and eliminates hallucinations and black-box reasoning

Michael DeBellis
Jul 18, 20242 min read
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The Turing/Church Proofs: How Logicians Created Computer Science
12/27/24. When I first published this I got some of the details wrong. Specifically my discussion of countable and uncountable infinite...

Michael DeBellis
Jul 11, 20249 min read
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Using SPARQL to Delete Duplicate Instances
Describes developing a query to delete objects that have different IRIs but are essentially duplicates.

Michael DeBellis
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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Using an LLM to help build ontologies: The Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) Assistant
Using the Open AI Assistant tool to create an LLM enabled assistant to using the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO)

Michael DeBellis
Feb 1, 20241 min read
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Puns in the Web Ontology Language (OWL): Why We Need Them and How to Use Them
The reasons that puns are needed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and some discussion of how to use them

Michael DeBellis
Nov 21, 20238 min read
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One Good Hack Deserves Another
SPARQL query to delete asserted property values on datatype super properties

Michael DeBellis
Nov 9, 20232 min read
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The DaanMatch System: A Knowledge Graph linking NGOs with UN Sustainable Development Goals
The DaanMatch project and how knowledge graphs and NLP were used to facilitate linking NGOs with the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Michael DeBellis
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Using OWL Models to Bring Rigor to the "Soft" Sciences
Examples of using the Web Ontology Language to rigorously define theories in the social sciences

Michael DeBellis
Oct 24, 20234 min read
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Creating a Custom Rules View Tab
Note: There was a problem with the link to the PDF for the tutorial below. It worked for me because I owned the file but for others since...

Michael DeBellis
Aug 28, 20232 min read
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YouTube Videos for Protégé Tutorial
Link to a YouTube playlist that takes you through some basic steps in Protégé

Michael DeBellis
Jun 26, 20231 min read
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Artificially Unintelligent Hysteria
The proposed AI timeout is just hysteria. There is no danger of sentient AI and attempts to "pause" research are unfounded.

Michael DeBellis
Apr 13, 20232 min read
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John Searle's Chinese Room Argument
I recently published an article where I take issue with John Searle's Chinese Room argument against Artificial Intelligence

Michael DeBellis
Apr 10, 20231 min read
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New Version of Protégé!
New version of Protégé rocks!

Michael DeBellis
Feb 28, 20232 min read
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Using SKOS to Define Mappings
Describes ways to use the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to define mappings from one Concept Scheme to another.

Michael DeBellis
Jan 10, 20236 min read
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Synonyms, IRIs, and Labels in OWL and SKOS
Basic concepts related to synonyms in the Web Ontology Language (OWL), Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), and Protégé.

Michael DeBellis
Jan 10, 20236 min read
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