MCTA – 302(B) Semantic Networks

Unit I

Components – Types – Ontological Commitments – Ontological Categories – Philosophical Background –

Knowledge Representation Ontologies – Top Level Ontologies – Linguistic Ontologies – Domain

Ontologies – Semantic Web – Need – Foundation – Layers – Architecture.

Unit II

Web Documents in XML – RDF – Schema – Web Resource Description using RDF- RDF Properties –

Topic Maps and RDF – Overview – Syntax Structure – Semantics – Pragmatics – Traditional Ontology

Languages – LOOM – OKBC – OCML – Flogic Ontology Markup Languages – SHOE – OIL – DAML +

OIL – OWL.

Unit III

Taxonomy for Ontology Learning – Layered Approach – Phases of Ontology Learning – Importing and

Processing Ontologies and Documents – Ontology Learning Algorithms – Evaluation.

Unit IV

Overview – Need for management – Development process – Target ontology – Ontology mapping – Skills

management system – Ontological class – constraints – issues. Evolution – Development of Tools and Tool

Suites – Ontology Merge Tools – Ontology based Annotation Tools.

Unit V

Web Services – Semantic Web Services – Case Study for specific domain – Security issues – Current trends.

References:

1. Asuncion Gomez-Perez, Oscar Corcho, Mariano Fernandez-Lopez, “Ontological Engineering: with

examples from the areas of Knowledge Management, e-Commerce and the Semantic Web” Springer,

2004.

2. Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen, “A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information

Systems)”, The MIT Press, 2004