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The CG Formalism as an Ontolingua for Web-Oriented Representation Languages

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The semantic Web entails the standardization of representation mechanisms so that the knowledge contained in a Web document can be retrieved and processed on a semantic level. RDF seems to be the emerging encoding scheme for that purpose. However, there are many different sorts of documents on the Web that do not use RDF as their primary coding scheme. It is expected that many one-to-one mappings between pairs of document representation formalisms will eventually arise. This would create a situation where a young standard such as RDF would generate update problems for all these mappings as it evolves, which is inevitable. Rather, we advocate the use of a common Ontolingua for all these encoding formalisms. Though there may be many knowledge representation formalisms suited for that task, we advocate the use of the conceptual graph formalism.

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  1. HEC Montreal, 3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, Québec, Canada, H3T 2A7

    Olivier Gerbé

  2. Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4

    Guy W. Mineau

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  1. School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 1320 E 10th Street, Bloomington, IN, 47405-3907, USA

    Uta Priss

  2. School of Computer and Information Science, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia, 5095

    Dan Corbett

  3. Central Laboratory for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 25A Acad. G. Bonchev Street, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Galia Angelova

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Gerbé, O., Mineau, G.W. (2002). The CG Formalism as an Ontolingua for Web-Oriented Representation Languages. In: Priss, U., Corbett, D., Angelova, G. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Integration and Interfaces. ICCS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2393. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45483-7_16

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