an Introduction to Ontologies and Ontology Engineering

Catherine Roussey (1) , François Pinet (2) , Myoung-Ah Kang (3) , Oscar Corcho (4)

1 LIRIS - Laboratoire d'InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d'information
2 UR TSCF - Technologies et systèmes d'information pour les agrosystèmes
3 LIMOS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Modélisation et d'optimisation des Systèmes
4 DIA - Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial [UPM, Spain]

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. At the beginning, Artificial Intelligent researchers borrow the word “ontology” from Philosophy, but now this 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?

Mots clés: Semantic Relation; Resource Description Framework; Unify Modeling Language; Object Constraint Language; Domain Ontology

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Catherine Roussey, François Pinet, Myoung-Ah Kang, Oscar Corcho. an Introduction to Ontologies and Ontology Engineering. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, 2011, 1, pp.9-38. ⟨10.1007/978-0-85729-724-2_2⟩. ⟨hal-01354495⟩