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Agents and Ontologies
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- Symposium on
ontological engineering, AAAI 1997 Spring Symposium Series, March
24 - 26, 1997, Stanford University, California. This symposium will
contribute to the continuum of current research, by focusing on the
practical aspects of ontology development and use including tools,
methodologies, and engineering practice. This is a symposium rather
than a mini-conference. We solicit papers (see below), but at the
symposium itself the emphasis will be on sharing experiences with
ample time for all participants to contribute to the
discussion. Submission deadline October 25. 9/26/96
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Apple's Meta-Content
Format (MCF), the interchange format used by Project X,
is a simple representation language with roots in CYC and KIF intended
to represent information about the content of web pages, gopher and
ftp files, desktop files, email and structured (i.e., relational and
object oriented) databases, etc. MCF files contain descriptions of
meta-content objects (MCO or "units") which consist of a a unit
identifier and slot which identify generalizations and
specializations. 8/31/96
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The
Bayesian Network Interchange Format is a standard for representing
belif networks designedwith the following goals in mind: (1) to ensure
interoperability of Bayesian network tools; (2) allow for inter-group
sharing of knowledge encoded as Bayesian networks; and (3) to
facilitate comparison of research results on standard networks.
Microsoft's Decision Theory Group has a
Windows application which allows the creation, assessment and
evaluation of Bayesian belief networks expressed in BNIF.
8/22/96
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Cycorp has made a beta version of the Cyc
Upper Ontology available via the web. This includes approximately
3000 of Cyc's highest concepts with the hierarchical links between
them. It includes several hundred of Cyc's thousands of semantic
relations, each with its argument-types (type signature) but does not
include the deductive rules and constraints. Cycorp offers the Cyc
Upper Ontology as a common grounding for applications such as
natural language understanding and generation; semantic database
integration, consistency-checking, and mining; semantic information
retrieval; ontology-constrained simulation; user modeling and
knowledge sharing.
8/10/96
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Beyond Bookmarks: Schemes for Organizing the Web is a
clearinghouse of sites that have applied or adopted standard
classification schemes or controlled vocabularies to organize Web
resources. 6/4/96
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Ontology-Based Knowledge Discovery on the World-Wide Web. Sean
Luke, Lee Spector, and David Rager. To appear in the AAAI96 Workshop
on Internet-based Information Systems, 1996. Also available in
Gzipped PostScript Format (.ps.gz). Abstract: This paper
describes SHOE, a set of Simple HTML Ontology Extensions. SHOE allows
World-Wide Web authors to annotate their pages with ontology-based
knowledge about page contents. We present examples showing how the use
of SHOE can support a new generation of knowledge-based search and
knowledge discovery tools that operate on the World-Wide
Web. paper web ontology 5/30/96
- Ontology tool: PIF -- Process Interchange
Format -- is a common translation language that serves as a bridge
among heterogeneous process representations and supports the exchange
of business process models across different formats and schemas.
5/9/96
- Project: The Enterprise
Project is a collaborative effort led by AIAI and including IBM
UK, Lloyd's Register, Logica and Unilever. It's goal is "To improve
and where necessary replace existing modelling methods with a
framework for integrating methods and tools which are appropriate to
enterprise modelling and the management of change. The Enterprise
project is aimed at providing a method and computer toolset which will
help capture aspects of a business and analyze these to identify and
compare options for meeting the business requirements." The
foundation for this effort is
the Enterprise Ontology, a collection of terms and definitions
relevant to business enterprises, represented in Ontolingua.
3/31/96
- ONTOLOGY!
is a page listing projects, people, conferences and specific
resources on ontologies maintained by Enrico Franconi
(franconi@irst.itc.it).
12/12/95
- Cycorp, Inc., founded
in January 1995 as a spin-off from MCC, is continuing the development of
the Cyc project. Cycorp is headed by by Doug Lenat and includes
most of the MCC team that has been building Cyc since 1984. The Cyc system comprises a
very large, multi-contextual knowledge base with over 400K assertions,
an inference engine, a set of interface tools, and a number of
special-purpose application modules, running on a variety of
platforms. 12/7/95.
- Ontology: A
Resource Page is maintained by Doug Skuce
(doug@csi.uottawa.ca) as place for researchers in ontological
issues to quickly locate relevant material such as other researchers,
publications, workshops, etc. 12/7/95
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