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    • 10/31/2019 - created a syntax and type checking editor plugin for SUMO with jEdit
    • 10/12/2019 - added a command line interface for the OWLtranslator, and SUMO Diagnostics. Added links to VerbNet, for example Rotating
    • 9/17/2019 - added the TestStmnt.jsp page to SigmaKEE to make it easier for beginners to get immediate feedback on the correctness of SUMO statements
    • 8/25/2019 - translations of many SUMO terms into Japanese
    • 6/11/2019 - new ontology of computers/software brands and systems started
    • 2/1/2019 - TFF0 translation of SUMO in class com.articulate.sigma.trans.SUMOKBtoTFAKB
    • 7/7/2018 - Docker version of SigmaNLP
    • 5/30/2018 - Created docker version of Sigma to improve installation to two commands
    • 4/28/2018 - first version of a new SigmaNLP manual
    • 4/26/2018 - posted mappings of SUMO to the DBPedia ontology and through their WordNet 2.0 mappings to create SUMO links to over 400,000 entities
    • 3/28/2018 - first version of a new Sigma manual
    • 2/23/2018 - added javadoc API pages for SigmaKEE and SigmaNLP
    • 2/11/2018 - Created a RESTful interface for Sigma
    • 2/9/2018 - Upgraded SigmaNLP to use the latest Stanford CoreNLP 3.9
    • 1/8/2018 - Added a Semantic Concordancer to SigmaNLP that allows searching for SUMO-based patterns in text.
    • 1/8/2018 - Launched a new SigmaNLP public server on AWS (registration required).
    • 8/31/2017 - Added python interface to Sigma and jUnit command line instructions (see README)
    • 8/23/2017 - Completed revising the WordNet-SUMO mappings so every SUMO term (to the extent possible) has a mapping to WordNet
    • 7/22/2017 - new ontologies of Law and Weather
    • 5/1/2017 - Many new features in NLP, added to new projects Sigma-NLP and ShortAnswer
    • 2/2/2016 - new SUMO logo
    • 1/27/2016 - wrote an article on knowledge representation for Dataversity
    • 1/17/2016 - Added a podcast about representing simple sentences - quarters and dimes
    • 12/27/2015 - Completed port of Sigma to GitHub
    • 5/18/2015 - CIM3's server is officially retired and the new Sigma server is up
    • 4/2/2015 - Created SUO-KIF editing plugins for Eclipse and IntelliJ
    • 11/6/2014 - An Emacs SUMO mode
    • 3/29/2014 - Added a GTKsourceView config file for SUO-KIF. It supports Unix-based editors like gEdit (add the file to /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/language-specs/)
    • 3/29/2014 - Posted the GNU GPL OpenMind corpus of common sense English sentences (original article)
    • 11/29/2013 - Integrated language mappings from Open Multi-lingual Wordnet into the Sigma browser, for example, see the synset for "groceries"
    • 11/21/2013 - Added a term intersection search feature to the Sigma browser
    • 10/7/2013 - created a page for podcasts
    • 10/4/2013 - added a podcast about creating a new term in SUMO
    • 6/1/2013 - posted a new ontology of emotion
    • 12/23/2012 - Completed a university Course in Formal Ontology, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

    • 8/6/2012 - Gave a Course in Formal Ontology, August 6-9, San Jose, CA

    • 9/8/2011 - Posted a new talk on SUMO
    • 8/8/2011 - Results of the 2011 SUMO reasoning competition
    • 7/25/2011 - New ontologies of Hotel, Dining and Food
    • 4/24/2011 - Announced publication of a new book on SUMO and Sigma called Ontology: A Practical Guide
    • 12/1/2010 - Posted statistics for usage of the online Sigma system for browsing SUMO during November 2010
    • 4/22/2010 - Updated the online Sigma browser to the latest version, and included all the latest ontology content and WordNet mappings
    • 4/4/2010 - Added Languages (separated out from People.kif) and Media (new content) ontologies and did extensive cleanups of place names
    • 3/18/2010 - Created (with Chris Benzmueller) a description of the basic resolution theorem proving algorithm
    • 11/5/2009 - Mapped the OBO taxonomies to SUMO
    • 8/11/2009 - Announced the winners of the 2009 SUMO Reasoning Prize
    • 05/17/2009 - Added a merge of Mondial geographic data with SUMO
    • 02/17/2008 - Posted some guidelines for ontology development
    • 09/20/2007 - Released version 2.0 of Sigma
    • 09/10/2007 - Posted a new introductory tutorial on KIF and SUMO with slides and audio
    • 08/11/2007 - Posted some instance content about people from DBPedia, lightly linked to SUMO
    • 08/02/2007 - Posted a graph of SUMO 1.75
    • 06/18/2007 - Added the ability to display images in Sigma linked to SUMO terms, and compiled a list of images
    • 05/01/2007 - Released mappings from all the SUMO ontologies to WordNet 3.0
    • 02/28/2007 - Initial release of a small ontology of Arabic/Muslim cultural concepts
    • 09/06/2006 - Intial release of a set of new military ontologies covering devices, processes and people
    • 08/22/2006 - Made a new release of Sigma 1.5 with an improved manual and install script
    • 08/07/2006 - Completed mappings to all of WordNet 2.1 noun and verb synsets
    • 04/24/2006 - Ported all existing SUMO-WordNet mappings to WordNet 2.1
    • 09/07/2005 - Posted a number of typo fixes to the domain ontologies, and new code to Sigma that finds errors in the number of arguments used with logical operators
    • 03/18/2005 - Added a Frequently Asked Questions page
    • 12/17/2004 - Posted updates to SUMO and all the domain ontologies
    • 07/29/2004 - Posted domain ontologies which extend SUMO
    • 05/05/2004 - Created OntologyPortal site
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