Category: Ontology and Knowledge Base
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Automated Data Wrangling 2
As discussed in the original post, we are trying to answer the question, “can we automate the data wrangling process, and more specifically can data and words be associated dynamically through the use of ontologies?” On the surface, this appears to be an extremely complicated problem, and it is. However, NASA has done the same…
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Ontologies: Practical Applications
In the previous post, “Why Ontologies“, we explored concepts at a very high level about what an ontology is, and how they can be used in AI, NLP, data integration, and knowledge management applications. So what does the picture of satellites orbiting the earth have to do with ontologies? In the previously mentioned post, we discussed how…
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Why Ontologies?
In short, an ontology is the specification of a conceptualization. What does that mean from the perspective of the information sciences? Wikipedia’s definition: “formal naming and definition of the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities that really or fundamentally exist for a particular domain of discourse.” This basically means, like all models, that it…