Re:DM: Anyone doing applied Ontology Discovery via DM?

 >From Runes Dictionary of Philosophy, ontology means "the theory of
being". From Gr. on-being plus logos-logic.
     One theory of being is that it transcends that which can be
represented (and simulated by machine). Another theory as below is that
what exists is what can be objectively represented, only. The first theory
may be dualistic or monistic-subjectivist. The second is
monistic-objectivist.
FWP

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On Tue, 30 May 2000, Dr. Jen Que Louie wrote:

 > Formally, an ontology is the statement of a logical theory. Ontology is
 > applied in AI and Information Sciences in an attempt to define an explicit
 > formal specification of how to represent the objects, concepts and other
 > entities that are assumed to exist in some area of interest and the
 > relationships that hold among them.
 >
 > For AI systems, what "exists" is that which can be represented. When the
 > knowledge about a domain is represented in a declarative language, the set
 > of objects that can be represented is called the universe of discourse. We
 > can describe the ontology of a program by defining a set of
 > representational terms. Definitions associate the names of entities in the
 > universe of discourse (e.g. classes, relations, functions or other objects)
 > with human-readable text describing what the names mean, and formal axioms
 > that constrain the interpretation and well-formed use of these terms.
 >
 > The hierarchical structuring of knowledge about things by subcategorizing
 > them according to their essential (or at least relevant and/or cognitive)
 > qualities. This is an extension of the previous senses of "ontology"
 > (above) which has become common in discussions about the difficulty of
 > maintaining subject indices.
 >
 > Check out http://www.mcc.com/projects/infosleuth/
 > InfoSleuth II is an agent-based application that applies ontology to
 > cluster, classify, and identify relationships in textual data. InfoSleuth
 > II is currently used for  navigating an EPA toxic material database, and
 > for data mining of bioinformatic data of the USDA.
 >
 > Dr. Jen Que Louie
 > Nautilus Systems, Inc.
 > 3867 Alder Woods Court
 > Fairfax, VA  22033-2441
 > (703) 385-8582 (voice)
 > (703) 385-4857 (FAX)
 > jqlouie@nautilus-systems.com
 > http://www.nautilus-systems.com
 > Competitive Edge From Information
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 >
 > At 08:14 AM 5/30/00 -0400, you wrote:
 >  >What does "ontology" meanin this context?
 >  >
 >  >when I took ontology in school it was in Metaphysics.  It was the study
 > of the
 >  >meaning of "being", i.e., what does it mean to say that something exists?
 >  >____________________Reply Separator____________________
 >  >Subject:    DM: Anyone doing applied Ontology Discovery via DM?
 >  >Author: <datamine-l@nautilus-sys.com>
 >  >Date:       05/27/2000 11:32 PM
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >Is anyone doing applied [non-academic] ontology discovery using data/web
 >  >mining?  If so, what tools and ontology standards are you using?
 >  >
 >  >Regards,
 >  >David Ehrens
 >
 >

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