Citation
Roussey, C. and Pinet, F. and Ah Kang, M. and Corcho, Oscar
(2011).
An Introduction to Ontologies and Ontology Engineering.
In:
"Ontologies in Urban Development Projects".
Springer-Verlag.
ISBN 978-0-85729-724-2.
Abstract
In the last decades, the use of ontologies in information systems has become more and more popular in various fields, such as web technologies, database integration, multi agent systems, natural language processing, etc. Artificial intelligent researchers have initially borrowed the word “ontology” from Philosophy, then the word spread in many scientific domain and ontologies are now used in several developments. The main goal of this chapter is to answer generic questions about ontologies, such as: Which are the different kinds of ontologies? What is the purpose of the use of ontologies in an application? Which methods can I use to build an ontology?
