Knowledge Representation with Ontologies: The Present and Future

  • Authors:
  • Christopher Brewster;Kieron O'Hara;Steve Fuller;Yorick Wilks;Enrico Franconi;Mark A. Musen;Jeremy Ellman;Simon Buckingham Shum

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Sheffield;University of Southampton;University of Warwick;University of Sheffield;Free University of Bozen-Bolzano;Stanford University;Wordmap;The Open University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Recently, there's been an explosion of interest in ontologies as artifacts to represent human knowledge and as critical components in knowledge management, the Semantic Web, business-to-business applications, and several other application areas. Various research communities commonly assume that ontologies are the appropriate modeling structure for representing knowledge. However, little discussion has occurred regarding the actual range of knowledge an ontology can successfully represent. This installment of Trends and Controversies brings together several practitioners to debate this issue.