0 the part of philosophy that studies what it means to exist --
Others have created large ontologies from various knowledge sources, including scientific journal articles, and provide sophisticated query and reasoning over these knowledge bases.
We have described a novel approach to attacking the proliferation of information agent ontologies.
Taxonomies lend themselves as natural starting points in explaining ontologies as they can be easily conceived as a sort of lightweight ontology.
Specifically, ontologies are used to represent a domain of discourse as a common ground for encoding content meaning and user interests.
Our analysis indicated the main trends in each subfield of ontology change and showed the main strengths and weaknesses of the dominating research paradigms.
The coupling with available ontology and common-sense engines via suitable interfaces is suggestive for this purpose.
This is beneficial, because the process of editing such information becomes part of the ontology maintenance.
This translation provides an excellent means to take an ontology as a static document, and put it to use in a running system.
