A Method for Reasoning with Ontologies Represented as Conceptual Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Dan Corbett

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AI '01 Proceedings of the 14th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper discusses automated reasoning over ontologies. represented as Conceptual Graphs. We have designed and implemented reasoning tools using Conceptual Graphs as the underlying knowledge structure. This work demonstrates that the power of logic as implemended in Conceptual Graphs, and the tools available in Conceptual Graph Theory can be used as powerful ontology reasoning tools in a real-worls domain. We show that ontologies can be constrained and unified using efficient methods, and that these methods provide the basis for an automated reasoning ststem. The Conceptual Graph techiques of concept join, partial order and subsumption are all exploited to create these reasining tools.We dicuss the implementation of our ideas, and demonstrate the reasoning tool that we created in two domains: building architecture and defence. The significance of our work is that the previously static knowledge representation of ontology is now a dynamic, functional reasoning system.