What are ontologies, and why do we need them?

B. Chandrasekaran; John R. Josephson; V. Richard Benjamins

doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/5254.747902

What are ontologies, and why do we need them?

1999 · IEEE Intelligent Systems and their Applications · 1,665 citations · 0 from inside this corpus

B. Chandrasekaran, John R. Josephson low, V. Richard Benjamins

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What are ontologies, and why do we need them?→A translation approach to portable ontology specificationsLegacy edge — source detail unavailable
What are ontologies, and why do we need them?→Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing?Legacy edge — source detail unavailable
What are ontologies, and why do we need them?→Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database *Legacy edge — source detail unavailable
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Paper	Year	Cited
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications	1993	12,639
Toward principles for the design of ontologies used for knowledge sharing?	1995	7,692
Introduction to WordNet: An On-line Lexical Database *	1990	4,213

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Semantic Web and Ontologies	Computer Science
Natural Language Processing Techniques	Computer Science
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

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