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."

Comments

Computer Engineering == Economics?

[Quixotic Raindrop]

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I have long despised the "science" of economics because they have an annoying tendency to take common, everyday words, with well-defined meanings, and turn them into something completely unrelated (see: efficient). Now, computer science and knowledge engineering is doing the same thing? Ontology already has a specific, well-defined meaning, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with the scope of agent or community relationships and concepts.

When describing a concept that does not yet have a descriptive word or phrase, don't just assume that you can take a word out of the dictionary and co-opt it for your own use. English is a hard enough language without our academics and researchers stealing words and twisting them to new, completely unrelated topics. If no word fits, make one up!!
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I have priorities

[L. VeGas]

I don't so much want to learn about ontologies. I want to learn what an ontology is.

This is what happens

[nosferatu-man]

... when you let people with grant money and "big ideas" near a concept that they don't understand. They hijack it and produce mountains of meaningless buzzword babble, trying to puff up their own particular snake-oil prescription.

"Ontologies" indeed. I bet David Hume would loooooove this.

'jfb