Classification in the KL-ONE knowledge representation system

  • Authors:
  • James G. Schmolze;Thomas A. Lipkis

  • Affiliations:
  • Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, MA;Information Sciences Institute, USC, Marina Del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'83 Proceedings of the Eighth international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

KL-ONE lets one define and use a class of descriptive terms called Concepts, where each Concept denotes a set of objects A subsumption relation between Concepts is defined which is related to set inclusion by way of a semantics for Concepts. This subsumption relation defines a partial order on Concepts, and KL-ONE organizes all Concepts into a taxonomy that reflects this partial order. Classification is a process that takes a new Concept and determines other Concepts that either subsume it or that it subsumes, thereby determining the location for the new Concept within a given taxonomy. We discuss these issues and demonstrate some uses of the classification algorithm.