Rebecca Younes
President at Semantic Arts, Inc.
New York, United States
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Top SchoolRebecca Younes is a president-level technology leader and ontologist with 11+ years of experience designing formal ontologies, semantic models, and production software for linked data and text-processing systems. She blends deep linguistic expertise (M.A. in Linguistics) and hands-on text-to-speech research—building normalization, morphological and phonological modules—with practical software engineering practices like TDD and MVC. Rebecca has a proven track record of rapidly mastering new domains (notably bibliographic and financial services) through close collaboration with subject matter experts and rigorous versioned ontology development. She mentors domain specialists and has published on ontology design principles while leading semantic initiatives at Semantic Arts and Cornell University. Comfortable spanning research and production, she ships complex knowledge-graph and semantic web applications as well as civic-engagement platforms for regulatory processes. Based in New York, she combines academic rigor with pragmatic delivery to turn ambiguous domain knowledge into well-documented, reusable semantic artifacts.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Linguistics, M.A. Linguistics at The University of Texas at AustinBachelor of Arts - BA Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts - BA Linguistics at University of Minnesota
English, German, Arabic, French
Github Skills (39)
ontologies10
ontology10
linked-open-data8
protege7
git-commit7
post-processor7
reasoning7
rdf7
owl7
csv6
deprecated6
sparql6
application-profile6
semantic-web6
wizard6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
LD4P/arm
May 2017 - Dec 2019
BIBFRAME extension ontologies for modeling bibliographic metadata in the art and rare materials domains.
Contributions:474 commits, 15 PRs, 356 pushes in 2 years 8 months
ontologies
semanticarts/operators-ontology
Sep 2023 - Oct 2024
Generic operators for specifying relationships, e.g. greater than.
Contributions:2 releases, 8 reviews, 4 PRs in 1 year
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