SITUATION THEORY AS A MODEL FOR ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE

我们认为，正如德夫林在最近的一篇文章中所描述的那样，情境理论 《逻辑与信息》一书(1991)可能提供了一种有用的方法来 本体论工程。情况提供了一种灵活的方法 适合于利用轻量级的知识表示法 将自然语言分析成短语单位。使用这种方法，它是 我们的目的是设计一种系统，利用尽可能多的自动 尽可能地进行处理以帮助获取知识，但依赖于 最终要靠人来纠正这个过程。作为知识库 它的增长反过来将被用来帮助收购过程。AS 设想的最初阶段将是最劳动密集型的。第一 该系统的任务将是在一小部分 文件，以确定它可以如何帮助检索。如果结果是肯定的 我们可能会进行一项更雄心勃勃的努力，以建立一个庞大的 分子生物学中的信息。

We believe that situation theory as described by Devlin in his recent book, Logic and Information (1991) may provide a useful approach to ontological engineering. Situations provide a flexible method of knowledge representation well suited to take advantage of a light weight parse of natural language into phrase units. With this approach it is our purpose to design a system that takes advantage of as much automatic processing as possible to aid in knowledge acquisition but which relies ultimately on the human to correct the process. As the knowledge base grows it will in turn be used to aid in the process of acquisition. As conceived the initial stages will be the most labor intensive. The first task for the system will be to test its usefulness on a small set of documents to determine how it may aid retrieval. If results are positive we may proceed to a more ambitious effort to build a large base of information in molecular biology.