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A Domain-Specific Formal Ontology for Archaeological Knowledge Sharing and Reusing

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Inherent heterogeneity and distribution of knowledge strongly prevent knowledge from sharing and reusing among different agents and across different domains; formal ontologies have been viewed as a promising means to tackle this problem. In this paper, we present a domain-specific formal ontology for archaeological knowledge sharing and reusing. The ontology consists of three major parts: archaeological categories, their relationships and axioms. The ontology not only captures the semantics of archaeological knowledge, but also provides archaeology with an explicit and formal specification of a shared conceptualization, thus making archaeological knowledge shareable and reusable across humans and machines in a structured fashion. As an application of the ontology, we have developed an ontology-driven approach to knowledge acquisition from archaeological text.

This work is supported by a grant from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (#2000-4010), a grant from the Foundation of Chinese Natural Sciences (#20010010-A), and a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (#2001CCA03000).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080, Beijing, China

    Chunxia Zhang, Cungen Cao, Fang Gu & Jinxin Si

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Zhang, C., Cao, C., Gu, F., Si, J. (2002). A Domain-Specific Formal Ontology for Archaeological Knowledge Sharing and Reusing. In: Karagiannis, D., Reimer, U. (eds) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. PAKM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36277-0_20

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