 Dr. Vizedom supports USAF as Technical Lead for the Enterprise Vocabulary Team(EVT). This team provides technical guidance and support for ontology development by and for Communities of Interest across the enterprise, ontology management and harmonization, and support for application of ontologies to enable Semantic SOA, semantic indexing and discovery, interoperability, reuse, authoritativeness, and other elements of the AF's Transparency initiative. Previously, Dr. Vizedom has developed and designed ontology for a range of user communities and technologies, including search, entity extration, and inference-heavy AI applications. Dr. Vizedom received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Univ. of Minnesota, where her research interests focused especially on social contexts and their consequences for evidential reasoning and belief; she maintains a special interest in cross-community knowledge development, representation, and sharing, all with an eye to better enabling end-user knowledge access, reasoning and decision-making.
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