Survey Of Editing Tools For Building Ontologies

Michael Denny writes "Ontology Building: A Survey of Editing Tools is an up-to-date summary of more than 50 software tools for creating and editing ontologies. A brief introduction to the nature of ontologies and ontology building is included."

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Re:Computer Engineering == Economics?

[Jon Peterson]

Hey, come on, we can live with a little operator overloading in natural languages.

The only other time I've come across ontology is in philosophy, where it has a precise and well understood (among philosophers) meaning. I don't think there will be much general confusion.

I agree that the sort of behaviour you talk about is bad when it causes an old meaning of a word to become useless, because people confuse it with the new meaning. In this case we are talking about a rather arcane word being co-opted from philosophers by information scientists. There's little reason to use the word in general conversation, and little chance that either of the two groups above will confuse the word or use it sloppily.

Now, the abuse of the word 'enormity' is a different story altogether...