Using Ontologies and NLP to Diagnose and Address Logistics Challenges in Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Using Ontologies and NLP to Diagnose and Address Logistics Challenges in Global Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Ms. Kendall has over 30 years’ professional experience in the design, development and deployment of enterprise-scale information management systems. Her focus includes business and information architecture, knowledge representation strategies, and ontology development for clients in financial services, government, manufacturing, media, and travel domains. She has developed best practices for marrying business architecture, conceptual modeling, and traditional software engineering with semantics to address complex information management issues. Elisa represents ontology and information architecture concerns on the Object Management Group (OMG)’s Architecture Board, is co-editor of the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM), and a contributor to a number of other OMG standards, including the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) effort. She has participated in the ISO JTC1 SC32 WG2 Metadata working group and was a member of the W3C OWL and Best Practices working groups. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA, and an A.M in Linguistics from Stanford University.