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Survey Of Editing Tools For Building Ontologies

Posted by timothy on from the but-what-about-phylogeny dept.

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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  1. Heh by 4of12 · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least they're developing something useful!

    For a while, I was afraid they were developing ways for studying tautology!

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  2. Simple Explanation by moc.tfosorcimgllib · · Score: 5, Informative

    A simple computer ontology builds abstract relationships between objects.

    Animals -> Birds -> Flightless Birds -> Penguins
    It is an important first step into AI and computer interaction.
    Unfortunately I found the article as useful as those old programs where the computer would try and guess what you were thinking about.