Concepedia

What are ontologies, and why do we need them?

B. Chandrasekaran, John R. Josephson, V. Richard Benjamins

IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications · 1999 · 1.7K citations · 24 references

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Abstract

This survey provides a conceptual introduction to ontologies and their role in information systems and AI. The authors also discuss how ontologies clarify the domain's structure of knowledge and enable knowledge sharing.

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