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Ontologies and the Semantic Web
Order from Chaos by Natalya Noy appears in
ACM Queue v. 3, no. 8 - October 2005.
Just as anyone can put up his or her own page on the Web and anyone can point to it (and say either good or bad things about it), on the Semantic Web anyone can post an ontology, and anyone can reuse and extend any ontology that is appropriate to his or her task. Naturally, this model brings up issues of finding the right ontologies, evaluating them, trusting the sources they come from, and so on.
Ontologies
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Taxonomy Evaluation
Monte Carlo Study of Taxonomy Evaluation by Alexander Ulanov, Georgy Shevlyakov, Nikolay Lyubomishchenko, Pankaj Mehra, Vladimir Polutin might be of interest. Ontologies are increasingly used in various fields such as knowledge management, information...
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Free Tagging Paper
The paper The New School of Ontologies by Nick Mote has some problems. He seems to be confused about different types of controlled vocabularies. He states "Instead of requiring that the contributor adapt to the ontology, folksonomies adapt the ontology...
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Ontologies
The Role of Ontologies in Teaching and Learning by Ruth Wilson is a white paper on the topic.Ontologies are currently a buzzword in many communities, hailed as a mechanism for making better use of the Web. They offer a shared definition of a domain that...
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Ontologies
Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology by Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness.In this guide, we have described an ontology-development methodology for declarative frame-based systems. We listed the steps in the ontology-development...
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Ontologies
Deborah L. McGuinness. "Ontologies Come of Age". To appear in Dieter Fensel, Jim Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster, editors. Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to Its Full Potential. MIT Press, 2002.In this paper, we...
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