Ontological Engineering: with examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web. First Edition

by Asunción Gómez-Pérez, Mariano Fernández-López, Oscar Corcho

Ontologies provide a common vocabulary of an area and define, with different levels of formality, the meaning of the terms and the relationships between them. Ontological engineering refers to the set of activities concerning the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them. During the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on ontologies. Ontologies are now widely used in knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence and computer science; in applications related to areas such as knowledge management, natural language processing, e-commerce, intelligent information integration, bio-informatics, education; and in new emerging fields like the semantic web. The book presents the major issues of ontological engineering and describes the most outstanding ontologies currently available. It covers the practical aspects of selecting and applying methodologies, languages, and tools for building ontologies. Ontological Engineering will be of great value to students and researchers, and to developers who want to integrate ontologies in their information systems.

415 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[TK Keanini · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great background in knowledge representation in general. There are other books that are more up to date on W3C semantic technologies if that is your area of interest.

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent primer on information hierarchies and taxonomy. Though a bit of a slog, if you master this you can take on any challenge in taxonomy and ontology.