Mark Musen Lecture on Know Repres
<p>Feb 15, 2011 04:20 PM
 
an ontology is a specification of a conceputalization
a) the way we think abt a domain
b) a way of writing it down
 
from Mark's lecture on April 14 2010  (taught in spring 2010) in Know Rep course.
 
 
page 24  ontology design criteria:  excellent  (after gruber)
coherence,  extendibillity,
no assumptions aft knowledge repres,  minimal commitment.
page 25...  trade-offs in ontology design
making an ontology maximally general may make it useless for any specific application.
increasing specificity requires increasing ontological commitment.
 
see slide on page 27:  teh big picture around the corner
 
Professional societies will play an active role in codifying knowledge as ontologies.
 
use these ontologies for communication.
 
software agents will use on the net
intelligent systems will use.
 
 </p>