Part 1: Introduction to ontological engineering
Part 1: Introduction to ontological engineering
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DOI:
10.1007/bf03037311
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发表时间:
2003-04
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
R. Mizoguchi
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作者:
R. Mizoguchi
Ontology has been attracting a lot of attention recently. While ontology research has begun in the early 90's in the knowledge base community, the research activity has been accelerated and spread over the web technology community by the semantic web movement in the last few years. Many people talk about ontology nowadays. However, there seems to be some misunderstandings about what an ontology is and what ontological engineering is, how it is useful, etc. The purpose of this tutorial is to clarify issues on ontology and ontological engineering and to describe the author's personal views on how ontological engineering should contribute to the future knowledge processing. The first topic is what an ontology is, followed by the explanation of the context where ontology issues need to be discussed. Ontological engineering is explained as the successor of knowledge engineering to give a first context. Another context to understand ontology is semantic web 1~) which requires semantic interoperability among metadata in which an ontology is expected to fill the semantic gap between metadata. The next topic is typology of ontology followed by FAQ and what is not an ontology to avoid possible misunderstanding of ontology. Roles of ontology are described in detail to explain the utility of an ontology. The following is the contents of this article.