Abstract / Description of output
Existing knowledge base resources have
the potential to be valuable components of the
Semantic Web and similar knowledge-based environments.
However, from the perspective of these
environments, these resources are often undercharacterised,
lacking the ontological and structural
characterisation that would enable them to be exploited
fully.
In this paper we discuss two currently independent services, both integrated with their environment via a brokering mechanism. The first of these services is an ontology extraction tool, which can be used to identify ontological knowledge implicit in a knowledge base. The second service involves characterising a given knowledge base in terms of the topic it addresses and the structure of its knowledge. This characterisation should permit a knowledge base to be located and assessed as a potential candidate for re-use in a more intelligent and flexible manner. The discussion of some related research into brokering systems illustrates the roles that these services can play in distributed knowledge architectures as precursors to problem-directed transformation and reuse of knowledge resources.
In this paper we discuss two currently independent services, both integrated with their environment via a brokering mechanism. The first of these services is an ontology extraction tool, which can be used to identify ontological knowledge implicit in a knowledge base. The second service involves characterising a given knowledge base in terms of the topic it addresses and the structure of its knowledge. This characterisation should permit a knowledge base to be located and assessed as a potential candidate for re-use in a more intelligent and flexible manner. The discussion of some related research into brokering systems illustrates the roles that these services can play in distributed knowledge architectures as precursors to problem-directed transformation and reuse of knowledge resources.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Transformation for the Semantic Web KTSW 2002 |
Editors | B. Omelayenko, M. Klein |
Pages | 85-92 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |