An Overview of OWL, A Language for Knowledge Representation.

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA041372

Entities

People

  • Lowell B. Hawkinson
  • Peter Szolovits
  • William A. Martin

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic Programming
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Grammars
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Military Research
  • Natural Languages
  • New York
  • Programming Languages

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics