Readings in Knowledge Representation
Readings in Knowledge Representation
The Description Logic Handbook
The Description Logic Handbook
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
In recent years, the problem of concept representation received great attention within knowledge engineering because of its relevance for ontology-based technologies. However, the notion of concept itself turns out to be highly disputed and problematic. In our opinion, one of the causes of this state of affairs is that the notion of concept is in some sense heterogeneous, and encompasses different cognitive phenomena. This results in a strain between conflicting requirements, such as, for example, compositionality on the one side and the need of representing prototypical information on the other. AI research in some way shows traces of this situation. In this paper we propose an analysis of this state of affairs and sketch some proposal for concept representation in formal ontologies, which takes into account suggestions coming from psychological research.