An Overview of OWL, A Language for Knowledge Representation.

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Abstract:

The motivation and overall organization of the OWL language for knowledge representation is described. OWL consists of a memory of concepts in terms of which all English phrases and all knowledge of an application domain are represented, a theory of English grammar which tells how to map English phrases into concepts, a parser to perform that mapping for individual sentences, and an interpreter to carry out procedures which are written in the same representational formalism. The system has been applied to the study of interactive dialogs, explanations of its own reasoning, and question answering.

Author(s):
Szolovits, Peter ; Hawkinson, Lowell B. ; Martin, William A.
Author Organization(s):
MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE LAB FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE
Supplementary Note:
Presented at Workshop on Natural Language for Interaction with Data Bases held by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis at Schloss Laxenburg, Austria, Jan 77.
Pagination:
0029

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

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Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
MIT/LCS/TM-86
Contract/Grant Number(s):
N00014-75-C-0661
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.2.2_Develop Knowledge and Situational Awareness; JCA_5.2_Understand; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_6.1.2_Wireless Transmission; JCA_6.1_Information Transport; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.4_Force Support; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct
Modernization Areas:
AI and Machine Learning
Communities of Interest:
Materials and Manufacturing Processes
Descriptor(s):
*PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES, *ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, *SYMBOLS, *COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, REASONING, SEMANTICS, NODES, COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, WORDS(LANGUAGE), INDEXES, MAPPING, MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS, TAXONOMY, LINGUISTICS, PARSERS, PHRASE STRUCTURE GRAMMARS, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Linguistics, Biology, Computer Programming and Software, Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Representation, Sentences, Interactive systems, LMS(Linguistic memory system), Question answering, Representation, OWL programming language, Linguistic memory system, Dialogues
Report Date:
1977 Jun 01