Semantosoph

Ontologies

Some collected material on ontologies and the semantic web.

T. Berners-Lee et al., The Semantic Web: A new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers will unleash a revolution of new possibilities, Scientific American Magazine, 2001

A. Gómez-Pérez et al., Ontological engineering, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004

T. Gruber, Toward Principles for the Design of Ontologies Used for Knowledge Sharing, In: Formal Ontology in Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Representation, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

T. Gruber, A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications, Knowledge Acquisition 5(2):199–220, 1993

N. Guarino, P. Giaretta, Ontologies and Knowledge Bases: Towards a Terminological Clarification, In: Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases: Knowledge Building and Knowledge Sharing (1995), pp. 25–32, 1995

N. Guarino, Formal Ontology and Information Systems, In: Proceedings of FOIS’98, pp. 3–15, 1998

P. Hitzler et al., Semantic Web, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008

S. Kinsella et al., An Interactive Map of Semantic Web Ontology Usage, 2008 12th International Conference Information Visualisation, pp.179–184, 2008

O. Lassila, D. McGuinness, The Role of Frame-Based Representation on the Semantic Web, 2008

F. Loebe, Ontologien – Eine Einführung, Slides, 2007

R. Neches et al., Enabling Technology for Knowledge Sharing, AI Magazine, pp. 36–56, 1991

G. Wiedemann, Ontologien und Ontology Engineering, Slides, 2008

Visual Analytics

Resources and materials about visual analytics.

WEBSOM

ThemeRiver

ThemeRiver

ThemeRiver Sourcecode

GalaxyOfNews

InfoSky

InfoSky Management Summary

SONIA

Process of Induction

I once analysed the “Process of Induction (PI)”, which was postulated by Paul Thagard in his book “Computational Philosophy of Science”.

You can get the LISP code here.

My code is slightly different from the orignial. I removed a typo, but skipped the string-append-patch suggested by Thagard. To get this code working on a SUN-Workstation with SunOS 5.7 and clisp, I removed the QUOTE in every (carmap ‘(lambda … )). Nevertheless, the code produces the output that is mentioned in the book.

clisp -i ana_schem.l -i analog.l -i cause.l -i common.l -i begin.l \
 -i concepts.l -i explain.l -i gen.l -i misc.l -i motiv.l -i prob.l -i prob_fire.l \ 
-i prob_spread.l -i store.l -i theory.l -i trig.l -i world.l -i wts.l

As this is hard to type, you can just use this small shell script.

For more information on how this works, download the paper PI – Joshua Bacher und Sven Windisch, 2004 (german).