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Ontologies: What you should know and why you might care
Deborah McGuinness
Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist
Knowledge Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
Stanford, CA USA
http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm
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What is an Ontology?
Catalog/ID
GeneralDescription
Logics
Terms/glossary
Thesauri“narrower
term”relation
Formaltaxonomy
Frames(properties)
Term Hierarchy
(e.g. Yahoo!)
Formalinstance
Value Restrs.
General Logic
*based on AAAI ’99 Ontologies panel – Gruninger, Lehmann, McGuinness, Uschold, WeltyUpdated by McGuinness, additional input from Gruninger, Uschold, and Rockmore
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General Nature of Descriptionsa WINE
a LIQUIDa POTABLE
grape: chardonnay, ... [>= 1]sugar-content: dry, sweet, off-drycolor: red, white, roseprice: a PRICEwinery: a WINERY
grape dictates color (modulo skin)harvest time and sugar are related
general categories
structured components
interconnectionsbetween parts
number/card restrictions
valuerestrictions
class
superclass
Roles/properties
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Some uses of OntologiesSimple ontologies (taxonomies) provide:• Controlled shared vocabulary (search engines, authors,
users, databases, programs/agents all speak same language)• Site Organization, Navigation Support, Expectation setting• “Umbrella” Upper Level Structures (for extension e.g.,
UNSPSC)• Browsing support (tagged structures such as Yahoo!)• Search support (query expansion approaches such as
FindUR, e-Cyc; structured search)• Sense disambiguation (e.g., TAP)
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Semantic Web Vision
Today’s web enriched with information encoding term meaning enabling applications that are:
• Able to understand term meaning and user background• Interoperable (can translate between applications and
vocabularies)• Programmable (thus agent operational)• Explainable (thus maintains context and can adapt)• Capable of filtering (thus limiting display and human
intervention requirements)• Capable of executing services
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Semantic Enablers
• Languages for representing terms in vocabularies• Tools for generating, maintaining, and evolving
ontologies• Tools for reasoning with and using semantically
enhanced applications
Facilitated by W3C, Govt - DARPA, ARDA, NSF, NIST, EU, …
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DARPA’s DAML/W3C’s OWL Language
Web LanguagesRDF/SXML
DAML-ONT
Formal FoundationsDescription Logics
FACT, CLASSIC, DLP, …
Frame Systems
DAML+OIL(OWL)
OIL
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Ontology Resources…• Upper Level Ontologies- UNSPSC, SUMO, OpenCyc, OpenDirectory, TAP, …• Specialized Ontologies (Many beyond just GML)
– Geography Ontology CIA World Fact Book geographic regions; WFB climate data interpreted using Koeppen Climate Classification system- www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/sustdev/EIdirect/climate/EIsp0002.htm 3. Sea Level definitions - www.pol.ac.uk/psmsl/puscience/index.html
– Geography Ontology - geographical ontology & theory in FOL capable of accessing and utilizing information from a variety of agents, including Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer, TerraVision, the CIA World Factbook, Teknowledge's ASCS, and Landsat and GDACC satellite data repositories. Using axiomatic characterizations of these agents’ capabilities, in conjunction with SNARK's procedural-attachment mechanism and the OAA agent library, the combined theory is capable of finding answers that must be inferred from more than one of these sources because no one source has the entire answer
• Ontology Libraries– http://www.daml.org/ontologies/– http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/ontolingua
• “Advisory” bodies - Semantic Web Science Foundation, NIST, Ontology.org• Ontology Consultants
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Ontology ToolsTools developing: http://www.daml.org/tools/ and
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/impls#Implementations
Annotation Ontology TranslationBrowser PersistenceCrawler Query ToolsEditor RDMS MappingGraph Visualizer Report GenerationTransformation Search Validator Ontology AnalyzerImporter Ontology EditorInference Engine Merging
Many are in research labs, but companies emerging and lasting…Network Inference, Sandpiper, Ontoprise, AppliedSemantics, Sentius, ….
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Conclusion/Discussion• Ontologies are taking off in terms of languages,
tools, environments, and applications• Rich representation languages exist for
representing taxonomies, thesauri, and beyond. • Transition paths exist from standard languages
such as XML to other web standards like RDF and OWL
• Ontology toolkits for ontology building, evolution, merging, etc. exist today and are growing quickly (academics, government, and industry)
• Ontology libraries exist and are worth considering for leverage, connections, and merging
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PointersSelected Papers:- McGuinness. Ontologies come of age, 2003- Das, Wei, McGuinness, Industrial Strength Ontology Evolution Environments, 2002.- Kendall, Dutra, McGuinness. Towards a Commercial Strength Ontology Development Environment, 2002.- McGuinness Description Logics Emerge from Ivory Towers, 2001.- McGuinness. Ontologies and Online Commerce, 2001.- McGuinness. Conceptual Modeling for Distributed Ontology Environments, 2000.- McGuinness, Fikes, Rice, Wilder. An Environment for Merging and Testing Large Ontologies, 2000.- Brachman, Borgida, McGuinness, Patel-Schneider. Knowledge Representation meets Reality, 1999.- McGuinness. Ontological Issues for Knowledge-Enhanced Search, 1998.- McGuinness and Wright. Conceptual Modeling for Configuration, 1998.
Selected Tutorials:-Smith, Welty, McGuinness. OWL Web Ontology Language Guide, 2003.-Noy, McGuinness. Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating your First Ontology. 2001.- Brachman, McGuinness, Resnick, Borgida. How and When to Use a KL-ONE-like System, 1991.
Languages, Environments, Software:- OWL - http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/ , http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-guide/- DAML+OIL: http://www.daml.org/- Inference Web - http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/iw/ - Chimaera - http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera/ - FindUR - http://www.research.att.com/people/~dlm/findur/ - TAP – http://tap.stanford.edu/- DQL - http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/projects/dql/
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EXTRAS
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OWL Lite Features • RDF Schema Features
– Class, rdfs:subClassOf , Individual – rdf:Property, rdfs:subPropertyOf – rdfs:domain , rdfs:range
• Equality and Inequality– sameClassAs , samePropertyAs , sameIndividualAs – differentIndividualFrom
• Restricted Cardinality – minCardinality, maxCardinality (restricted to 0 or 1) – cardinality (restricted to 0 or 1)
• Property Characteristics– inverseOf , TransitiveProperty , SymmetricProperty – FunctionalProperty(unique) , InverseFunctionalProperty– allValuesFrom, someValuesFrom (universal and existential local range
restrictions)• Datatypes
– Following the decisions of RDF Core. • Header Information
– imports , Dublin Core Metadata , versionInfo
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OWL Features
• Class Axioms– oneOf (enumerated classes) – disjointWith – sameClassAs applied to class expressions – rdfs:subClassOf applied to class expressions
• Boolean Combinations of Class Expressions – unionOf – intersectionOf – complementOf
• Arbitrary Cardinality – minCardinality – maxCardinality – cardinality
• Filler Information– hasValue Descriptions can include specific value information
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Chimaera: Ontology Environment Tool
An interactive web-based tool aimed at supporting:•Ontology analysis (correctness, completeness, style, …)•Merging of ontological terms from varied sources•Maintaining ontologies over time•Validation of input
• Features: multiple I/O languages, loading and merging into multiple namespaces, collaborative distributed environment support, integrated browsing/editing environment, extensible diagnostic rule language
• Used in commercial and academic environments, basis of some
commercial re-implementations (Ontobuilder/Ontoserver, …)
• Available as a hosted service from www-ksl-svc.stanford.edu
• Information: www.ksl.stanford.edu/software/chimaera
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Layer Cake Foundation
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XML• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
standard• Provides important solution to syntax
problem and simple semantics and schemas:
<SSN>555-17-1234</SSN>
• Now we can describe the meaning of words• Many applications of XML appearing:
– Geographic Markup Language (GML)– Extensible rights Markup Language (XrML)– Chemical Markup Language (CML)
Problem: Limited semantics, limited ontology creation
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DARPA Agent Markup Language
• http://www.daml.org/about.html
• Extends the vocabulary of XML and RDF/S
• Provides rich ontology representation language
• Language features chosen so language may have efficient implementations
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DAML+OIL -> W3C
• W3C Webont working group formed with DAML+OIL submission as starting point http://www.w3.org/Submission/2001/12/
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WEBONT participation….
• Includes over 50 members from over 30 organizations. – Industry including:
• Large companies such as Daimler Chrysler, EDS, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Lucent, Nokia, Philips Electronics, Sun, Unisys, …
• Newer/smaller companies such as IVIS Group, Network Inference, Stilo Technology, Unicorn Solutions, …
– Government and Not-For-Profits:• Defense Information Systems Agency, Interoperability Technology
Association for Information Processing, Japan (INTAP) , Intelink Mgt Office, Mitre, …
– Universities and Research Centers:• University of Bristol, University of Maryland, University of Southamptom,
Stanford University, …• DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence),
Forschungszentrum Informatik– Invited Experts
• Well-known academics from non-W3C members
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Simple Ontology-Enhanced Apps
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Today: Rich Information Source for Human Manipulation/Interpretation
Human
Human
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“I know what was input”
• Global documents and terms indexed and available for search• Search engine interfaces• Entire documents retrieved according to relevance (instead of
answers)• Human input, review, assimilation, integration, action, etc.• Special purpose interfaces required for user friendly applications
The web knows what was input but does little interpretation, manipulation, integration, and action.
Analogous to a new assistant who is thorough yet lacks common sense, context, and adaptability
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Tomorrow: Rich Information Source for Agent Manipulation/Interpretation
Human
Agent
Agent
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“I know what was meant”
• Understand term meaning and user background• Interoperable (can translate between applications)• Programmable (thus agent operational)• Explainable (thus maintains context and can adapt)• Capable of filtering (thus limiting display and
human intervention requirements)• Capable of executing services
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Contact Information
www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm