Ontologies:

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-9

3. Ontologies

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   Pages 11-18

4. Application Area Knowledge Management

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   Pages 19-46

5. Application Area Electronic Commerce

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   Pages 47-66

6. The Basic Technology: XML, XSL, and XML-QL

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   Pages 67-82

7. Ontology Languages

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   Pages 83-108

8. Conclusions

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   Pages 109-110

9. Appendix—Survey on Standards

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   Pages 111-122

10. Back Matter

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Ontologies have been developed and investigated for quite a while now in artificial intelligence and natural language processing to facilitate knowledge sharing and reuse. More recently, the notion of ontologies has attracted attention from fields such as intelligent information integration, cooperative information systems, information retrieval, electronic commerce, and knowledge management. The author systematically introduces the notion of ontologies to the non-expert reader and demonstrates in detail how to apply this conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based electronic commerce. In the second part of the book, the author presents a more technical view on emerging Web standards, like XML, RDF, XSL-T, or XQL, allowing for structural and semantic modeling and description of data and information.

• Internet
• Intranet
• agents
• artificial intelligence
• electronic commerce
• information extraction
• information retrieval
• information system
• intelligence
• knowledge
• knowledge management
• knowledge processing
• modeling
• natural language processing
• ontology

• Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, Frije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Dieter Fensel

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