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Progress in the development of national knowledge infrastructure

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This paper presents the recent process in a long-term research project, called National Knowledge Infrastructure (or NKI). Initiated in the early 2000, the project aims to develop a multi-domain shareable knowledge base for knowledge-intensive applications. To develop NKI, we have used domain-specific ontologies as a solid basis, and have built more than 600 ontologies. Using these ontologies and our knowledge acquisition methods, we have extracted about 1.1 millions of domain assertions. For users to access our NKI knowledge, we have developed a uniform multi-modal human-knowledge interface. We have also implemented a knowledge application programming interface for various applications to share the NKI knowledge.

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    Cao Cungen, Feng Qiangze, Gao Ying, Gu Fang, Si Jinxin, Sui Yuefei, Tian Wen, Wang Haitao, Wang Lili, Zeng Qingtian, Zhang Chunxia, Zheng Yufei & Zhou Xiaobin

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This work is supported by a grant from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.#2000-4010), a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.#20010010-A), and a grant from the Ministry of Science and Technology (Grant No.#2001CCA03000).

CAO Cungen is a professor and Ph.D. advisor of the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His major research interests are knowledge acquisition and sharing.

FENG Qiangze is a Ph.D candidate of ICT, CAS. His research interest is human-knowledge interface.

GAO Ying is a M.S. candidate of the Institute of Software, CAS. Her research interest is musical knowledge acquisition.

GU Fang is a Ph.D. candidate of ICT, CAS. Her research interest is ontological analysis.

SI Jinxin is a Ph.D. candidate of ICT, CAS. His research interest is IT knowledge acquisition.

SUI Yuefei is a professor and Ph.D. advisor of ICT, CAS. His interest is logical foundation of artificial intelligence.

TIAN Wen is a Ph.D. candidate of ICT, CAS. Her research interest is human commonsense knowledge acquisition.

WANG Haitao is a M.S. candidate of ICT, CAS. His research interest is automatic knowledge acquisition.

WANG Lili is a M.S. candidate of the Institute of Software, CAS. Her research interest is religious and ethological knowledge acquisition.

ZENG Qingtian is a Ph.D. candidate of ICT, CAS. His research interests are mathematical knowledge acquisition and Petri net theory.

ZHANG Chunxia is a Ph.D candidate of ICT, CAS. Her research interest is automatic knowledge acquisition from text.

ZHENG Yufei is a research associate of ICT, CAS. His research interest is knowledge service.

ZHOU Xiaobin is a M.S. candidate of ICT, CAS. His research interest is medical knowledge acquisition.

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Cao, C., Feng, Q., Gao, Y. et al. Progress in the development of national knowledge infrastructure. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 17, 523–534 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948821

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