Chris Deaton Email & Phone Number

Chris Deaton is a Senior Ontologist at Cycorp. They possess expertise in ontologies, semantic technologies, ontology engineering, knowledge representation, artificial intelligence and 12 more skills. Colleagues describe them as "I worked with Chris Deaton during the time the SemanticDB project was collaborating with Cycorp to connect our low-level patient record ontology into their Cyc General Purpose ontology for various reasons, the most prominent being as a component of developing a Semantic Research Assistant (SRA). The SRA incorporated Cyc's natural language processing and the above-mentioned connections between our ontologies to permit a user to initiate a cohort selection query by typing an English sentence or sentence fragments that are converted to SPARQL queries for use in identifying patient populations. In my experience, this tool is lightyears ahead of any similar, contemporary effort to leverage knowledge representation for identifying patients from structured data and Chris played a critical role in this monumental task as a bridge between the clinicians, informaticians, and developers in the Cleveland Clinic group with the Cycorp team in order to ensure the integration with their ontology and meeting the query requirements which were central to the prolific clinical research pipeline of our department at the time. Chris is a detail-oriented, organized, and efficient project manager with a very high-level of mastery in knowledge and ontology engineering. This combination was very valuable to the project. He was always empathetic to our needs, was diligent in taking the time to understand these needs, and this was a major reason for the success of the SRA and our collaboration with Cycorp in general." and "Chris is a clear and diligent thinker. I worked with him often during my time at Cycorp, and, in my experience, his work was always thorough and well thought out. On top of that, Chris is always open to different approaches to solving problems. He never becomes so entrenched in one approach or method that he cannot adapt if he finds a more appropriate one."

Listed skills include Ontologies, Semantic Technologies, Ontology Engineering, Knowledge Representation, and 13 others.

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  Senior Ontologist

  Cycorp

  Aug 2002 - Present

  Project manager and senior ontologist for a variety of research/commercial contracts