The CG Formalism as an Ontolingua for Web-Oriented Representation Languages

  • Authors:
  • Olivier Gerbé;Guy W. Mineau

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCS '02 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

The semantic Web entails the standardization of representation mechanisms so that the knowledge contained in a Web document can be retrieved and processed on a semantic level. RDF seems to be the emerging encoding scheme for that purpose. However, there are many different sorts of documents on theWeb that do not use RDF as their primary coding scheme. It is expected that many one-to-one mappings between pairs of document representation formalisms will eventually arise. This would create a situation where a young standard such as RDF would generate update problems for all these mappings as it evolves, which is inevitable. Rather, we advocate the use of a common Ontolingua for all these encoding formalisms. Though there may be many knowledge representation formalisms suited for that task, we advocate the use of the conceptual graph formalism.