As knowledge organization systems increase in complexity, we have increasing numbers of dimensions or features or ways to define the terms. Semantic networks help with bringing all those concepts together and tagging them so that you can look at them in lots of different ways.
People talk about different kinds of vocabularies. The differences usually have to do with the structure, or lack thereof. Sometimes, people refer to “flat lists”. These are one-level lists with no hierarchical structure. They can be uncontrolled or controlled lists. An uncontrolled list is a simple, flat structure. The uncontrolled list is your “Saturday list”.
The Sixth International Workshop on Ontology Matching will take place in October in Bonn, Germany. The workshop will bring leaders from all genres and backgrounds to assess how academic advances are or are not addressing real-world requirements when it comes to ontology matching.
Karlsruhe has released OntoBroker 6.1 and OntoStudio 3.1 as part of the ontoprise product suite, the only infrastructure supporting all major W3C SemanticWeb recommendations including OWL, RDF(s), RIF and ObjectLogic.
HIGHFLEET has announced the release of the latest version of its eXtensible Knowledge Server (XKS) ontology-based deductive database. This new release professes to have the only advanced, scalable first order logic-based deductive database that continues to find new uses.
Ontology Systems, best known for their semantic search technology, has released Ontology 3. Previously known as OSS/CAD and now in its third generation, the new release focuses on the user experience.
Researchers in Spain are promising a better mobile telephone user experience by applying semantic technology to customize the application related to user tastes and preferences, social relations, services and environment.
By now, IBM’s Jeopardy! champion Watson is old news. But the computer technology triumph, capable of understanding human language and broad knowledge topics, may have more to teach us.
Ontology Systems and Logica have announced a new partnership to provide Enterprise Data Alignment (EDA) solutions for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) who want to search and align knowledge from the customer, service and network data distributed across their operational, business and infrastructure systems.
A workshop on automated reasoning about context and ontology evolution will take place in Barcelona, Spain on July 17-18, 2011.