Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with Knowledge Preservation

by O. Corcho

Overview

The word "ontology" was once the darling of graduate students in philosophy, who understood it to be a systematic explanation of being. Now computer scientists, knowledge engineers and designers of artificial intelligence devices understand it to be a well-defined specification of a shared conceptualization, or abstract model, and apply it to "ontology languages." Corcho (ontological engineering, U. Politécnica de Madrid) presents a new model for building and maintaining ontology translation systems that uses layered architecture (lexical, syntax, semantic and pragmatic), and proposes representing ontology translation decisions declaratively in the language ODEDialect (made up of ODELex, ODESyntax, and ODESem) while focusing on semantic and pragmatic preservation. He includes descriptions of the experiments he performed to evaluate the ontology language model he proposes. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586034771
Publisher:	IOS Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Series:	Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Series
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.44(h) x 0.46(d)