Domain-Specific Formal Ontology of Archaeology and Its Application in Knowledge Acquisition and Analysis

作     者：Chun-XiaZhang Cun-GenCao FangGu Jin-XinSi 

作者机构：KeyLaboratoryofIntelligentInformationProcessingInstituteofComputingTechnologyTheChineseAcademyofSciencesBeijing100080P.R.China／／GraduateSchooloftheChineseAcademyofSciencesBeijing100039P.R.China KeyLaboratoryofIntelligentInformationProcessingInstituteo／ComputingTechnologyTheChineseAcademyofSciencesBeijing100080P.R.China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Computer Science & Technology》 (计算机科学技术学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2004年第19卷第3期

页      面：290-301页

核心收录：

学科分类：0808[工学-电气工程] 08[工学] 081104[工学-模式识别与智能系统] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0811[工学-控制科学与工程] 0701[理学-数学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：国家自然科学基金，科技部资助项目 

主　　题：domain-specific ontology archaeology category ontology correctness knowledge acquisition question-answering system 

摘      要：Inherent heterogeneity and distribution of knowledge strongly prevent knowledge from sharing and reusing among different agents and software entities, and a formal ontology has been viewed as a promising means to tackle this problem. In this paper, a domain-specific formal ontology of archaeology is presented. The ontology mainly consists of three parts: archaeological categories, their relationships and axioms. The ontology not only captures the semantics of archaeological knowledge, but also provides archaeology with an explicit and formal specification of a shared conceptualization, thus making archaeological knowledge shareable and reusable across humans and machines in a structured fashion. Further, we propose a method to verify ontology. correctness based on the individuals of categories. As applications of the ontology,we have developed an ontology-driven approach to knowledge acquisition from archaeological text and a question answering system for archaeological knowledge.