A new and improved version of the IEML-Emglish Dictionary !

You can download it here

Semantic distances

The basic mathematical text on IEML has now a chapter on semantic distances! The structural similarities and shortest path between semantic circuits can be computed. See here

The last version of the mathematical document

It is called IEML Semantic Topology

A New Version of the Mathematical Document

See here the work in progress : "Mathematical Theory of IEML Semantic Space"

A new version of the basic text on IEML

Click here

The engineers of the IEML research team express their vision!

To read their collective paper, please click HERE

A Widget for IEML semantic navigation

An article by Candide Kemmler explores the new possibilities of semantic navigation that will be fed by the IEML dictionary

Click here

4th International workshop on IEML

The goal of this workshop is to coordinate the first real world application of IEML that will take place in the "Twittosphere"

 Date: 1st and 2nd of may
 Time: from 9:30 AM to 5 PM
 Place: 30 Stewart Ottawa

AGENDA

 the first day, everybody will have 20 mn + 10 mn questions to present what he has done and what he is doing in the project
 the rest of the time will be devoted to the coordination / planning of the Twitter application

Developpers

 Steve Newcomb
 Michel Biezunski
 Christian Desjardins
 Justin McKillican
 Samuel Szoniecky
 Andrew Roczniak
 Candide Kemmler

Other members of the team

 Caitlin Kealey
 Byung Joon Cho
 Darcia Labrosse
 Pierre Lévy

From Social Computing to Reflexive Collective Intelligence

The IEML research program promotes a radical innovation in the notation and processing of semantics. IEML (Information Economy MetaLanguage) is a regular language that provides new methods for semantic interoperability, semantic navigation, collective categorization and self-referential collective intelligence. This research program is compatible with the major standards of the Web of data and is in tune with the current trends in social computing.

The paper explains the philosophical relevance of this new langage, expounds its syntactic and semantic structures and ponders its possible implications for the growth of collective intelligence in cyberspace.

Keywords: collective intelligence, IEML, semantic space, semantic tagging, semantic interoperability, metalanguage, web of data, philosophy.

Click below to get the paper in pdf

From Social Computing to Reflexive Collective Intelligence: The IEML Research Program

Mathematical Theory of IEML Semantic Space

Mathematical foundations of IEML

We propose in this article a formal description of IEML, a novel language designed to be used within computational intelligence and collective intelligence domains. Its target applications are :

 collaborative semantic tagging (`balisage’) of any idea or concept available on the Web (blogs, images, software, documents, data in general) ;

 collaborative semantic search, including comparison, merging and navigation ;

 interoperable modeling and simulation in social sciences, manage- ment, design, gaming and digital storytelling.

The emphasis is put on the operations that can be performed on IEML expressions. The combination of these operations leads to automatic generation and transformation of IEML expressions and to automatic generation and transformation of semantic networks of IEML expressions.

IEML has been designed with two goals in mind : provide a prac- tically unlimited method of semantic expression while remaining well within the limits of modern computation.

IEML semantic space presented at the "World Knowledge Dialogue"

The site of the World Knowledge Dialogue

Watch the video

And here the video of the discussion panel

Download here the ppt presentation

IEML : Achievements and Research Program

This technical report summarizes the research done at the Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence at the university of Ottawa since 2002 and explain the IEML research program for the years to come.

In order to scientifically study the human collective intelligence and to relate it to the Internet, the problem of language diversity and incompatibility of classification systems used in databases and social networks must be addressed. As a solution to this problem, I have invented a system of semantic notation, called Information Economy Meta Language (IEML). Although IEML is a new concept in the Semantic Web area, it is compatible with its major standards. This new formal language allows to map and to perform computations on the processes involved in social cognition within a practically infinite semantic space. Building on the successes of past research, an international research and development network principally concerned with semantic tagging will be launched in 2009. This network has three primary objectives : 1) to augment lexical units and natural language support of the IEML dictionary ; 2) to develop a set of open-source semantic agents allowing users to share information expressed (modeled, marked-up) in IEML and construct dynamic maps of their collective intelligence ; 3) train specialists in the usage of IEML in the context of an international school of semantic tagging.

Pierre Lévy

To read the rest of the paper (10p) download the pdf.

IEML-Research program

IEML presented at the Balisage 2008 conference

IEML is presented at the Balisage 2008 conference in Montreal the 13th of August. Download Pierre Levy’s presentation

IEML-Balisage

A new site for IEML discussion and collaboration

I have started a "twine" called semantic tagging for an open discussion about the IEML-semantic space research program.

semantic tagging will allow us to share link, images, comments, ideas and will connect us with other like-minded people and communities. All interested people can join it. ieml.org will stay open for special announcements and to share the dictionary and the open-source tools.

Pierre Lévy

A conference day about IEML and the semantic-social Web at the University of Paris-8

The 13th of May conference is organized by the Paragraph Lab..

Follow the links for more information.

Pierre Levy’s Conference :

espace semantique

semantic functions

Programme

Binary IEML

Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb propose a binary representation of IEML that helps the automation of semantic computing.

Clic on the icon to read the paper

BINARY IEML

A Collective Book on Collective Intelligence

"Collective Intelligence. Creating a Prosperous World at Peace" contains two chapters on the IEML initiative.

The book has been edited by Mark Tovey and has been published from the creative impulse of Robert Steele

Book portal

Download the book

Third International IEML Workshop

The workshop takes place the 21st and 22nd of March 2008, at the 30 Stewart Street, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, from 9h30 PM to 5PM. The workshop goal is to reach a one year "roadmap" for the people involved into the theoretical and technical development of the IEML initiative.

Two texts in their first versions will be discussed.

One about the service oriented architecture of the IEML initiative, by Andrew Roczniak, the other about a system of automatic generation of semantic links in IEML databases, by Pierre Levy.

SEMANTIC NETWORKING Semantic networking language Architecture

IEML SERVICES IEML initiative service oriented architecture

"virtual seminar" at Goldsmith College, London, UK

A short but lively virtual seminar with Pierre Lévy at Goldsmith College during the 14th and 15th of february 2008

Here is the link

Click on "social forum"

login : guest

password : guest

The virtual graduate school in general

Frequently Asked Questions

You’ll find in the forum some responses to frequently asked questions about IEML

Clic here

A Discussion on IEML at the Goldsmith College (London, UK)

Tuesday afternoon, the 29th of january

Here is the link

From now on, IEML has a syntax and a parser !

Here is the link

Bookmark it !

You can participate to the discussion on the syntax and the parser in the forum

Second International IEML Workshop

After the succes of the first workshop in Montreal, a second workshop is organized at the University of Ottawa (30, Stewart) the 17th and 18th of december, between 10 AM and 5 PM

Confirmed participants

Pierre Lévy will present the first stable version of the IEML grammar and will propose a "roadmap" for the next steps of the IEML initiative.

Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb will present the first IEML parser that they just programmed.

Samuel Szoniecky from the paragraphe lab of paris-8 will present the last developments of the IEML application for the "dixième famille".

Andrew Roczniac from the mcrlab will make a conceptual link between IEML and web services.

Christian Desjardins will present his vision for IEML oriented wikis.

Loïc Dachary will help the IEML initiative team thank to his experience in open source software development.

for any information : pierre dot levy at mac dot com

A new site : http://wiki.ieml.org/

A new site has been opened for open-source collaborative programming and discussion related to all aspects of the IEML initiative. On this opening day of the 1st september 2007, there is still no content. What wiki.ieml.org will contain in one year ?

A paper in the "Monde Diplomatique"

Find here the text of this paper about IEML in the "Monde Diplomatique" in french.

DIPLO-IEML.PDF

A first international IEML workshop

Place : Montreal.

Date: 21, 22, 24 and 25th of september.

Every researcher or student interested in the development of ontologies in IEML is invited.

For more information click here!

An interview on IEML has been published in the french newspaper "Le Monde"

The interview, published in june 24th, is entitled : "Collective intelligence is our greatest wealth"

Toward a Collective Intelligence Protocol

The fourth Collective Intelligence Lab technical report is a strategic paper proposed by Michel Biezunski and Steve Newcomb

Presentation at the 10th International Protégé Conference

Here is the poster accepted at the 10th International Protege Conference in Budapest, July 15-18 2007

Poster Budapest Poster presented at the 10th international protege conf. july 2007

Presentation at the WWW Consortium Conference

Here is the document presented at the Workshop on semantic identifiers at the 2007 conference of the WWW consortium in Banff.

Wikimetal is born !

Adress : wikimetal

Its goal is to feed the IEML dictionary by an online collaborative discussion. Please note the new function of the dictionary linking an entry to the corresponding entry in the wikimetal (and vice-versa)

The ICEA : first IEML "semantic community"

The knowledge engineering for an ontology of life-long learning in IEML has begun. The collaboration involves the Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence at the University of Ottawa and the ICEA. The ICEA team will be the first user of the wikimetal

Talks given, or to be given, on IEML in 2007

IEML will be presented at the WWW consortium 2007 conference. See the complete list of the seminars and communications on IEML "conferences"

A new text to be discussed

The Possible Cognition of the XXIst century and the responsability of intellectuals (in french)

A new partner joins in the IEML initiative

The cooperation institute for adults education (ICEA Quebec) commits itself in a long term partnership with the Canada Research Chair in Collective Intelligence and the IEML initiative.

See the letter of the director of the institute (in french)

See the list of partners of the IEML initiative

ICEA Letter

A new function in the IEML dictionary !

A new function in the IEML dictionary allows to find automatically the "reverse" (inversion of source and destination of the information flow) of an IEML word, when it exists in the dictionary.

For example, go to gm (malicious gossip) and find the reverse word! All the relations, and several ideas, have a reverse.

A New paper exposing the general vision behind the IEML initiative

You can read the new paper here

A New Paper exposing a Formal Representation of IEML

This new CI Lab technical report can be found here

The first version of the IEML Editor is now available

Go to the download section

Fresh Papers on IEML

Three papers have been written on IEML during the summer 2006. Two in french (sorry) and one in english.

 One paper in the french journal Liberation

 One interview in the "Bibliotheque NextModerne"

 One paper in the Globe and Mail (the biggest canadian news paper)

Pioneers aim to create new language for the Web

SHANE SCHICK

Pierre Lévy asks me, somewhat hopefully, whether I speak French. I do, but not enough to have the kind of conversation I want to have with him, and I say so. He understands. As someone who has spent his life studying collective intelligence, Prof. Lévy has a unique appreciation of how important it is to communicate clearly. That’s why he is trying to create a language that will open up a dialogue between computers that has never existed before.

Prof. Lévy, who holds a research professorship at the University of Ottawa, has been toiling away on what he has called the Information Economy Meta Language (IEML: www.ieml.org) for the better part of 15 years. When you understand the scope of what he’s trying to do, you can see why it may take even longer. Read more...

IEML-LIBERATION

IEML-Globe and Mail

Numerical addresses now available on line !

The numerical addresses of the IEML expressions (from events to phrases) display syntactic and semantic analysis of the (more synthetic) alphabetic addresses. To see the numerical address of an IEML word, clic on the IEML word at the top of the page devoted to this word.

Here is a document helping to read the numerical addresses.

IEML numerical addresses

New documents are online

 Publication of the CI Lab technical report n°1 topic: interprétation of IEML glyphs

 Publication of the CI Lab technical report n°2 topic : IEML graphs

New collaboration

A collaboration convention in research has been signed between the CI LAb and BVS, the Virtual Health Library.