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Chun-Xia Zhang, Cun-Gen Cao, Fang Gu, Jin-Xin. Domain-Specific Formal Ontology of Archaeology and Its Application in Knowledge Acquisition and Analysis[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2004, 19(3).
Citation: Chun-Xia Zhang, Cun-Gen Cao, Fang Gu, Jin-Xin. Domain-Specific Formal Ontology of Archaeology and Its Application in Knowledge Acquisition and Analysis[J]. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2004, 19(3).

Domain-Specific Formal Ontology of Archaeology and Its Application in Knowledge Acquisition and Analysis

  • Inherent heterogeneity and distribution of knowledgestrongly prevent knowledge from sharing and reusing among differentagents and software entities, and a formal ontology has been viewed asa promising means to tackle this problem. In this paper, adomain-specific formal ontology of archaeology is presented. Theontology mainly consists of three parts: archaeological categories,their relationships and axioms. The ontology not only captures thesemantics of archaeological knowledge, but also provides archaeologywith an explicit and formal specification of a shared conceptualization,thus making archaeological knowledge shareable and reusable acrosshumans and machines in a structured fashion. Further, we propose amethod to verify ontology correctness based on the individuals ofcategories. As applications of the ontology, we have developed anontology-driven approach to knowledge acquisition from archaeologicaltext and a question answering system for archaeological knowledge.
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