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What is Lightweight Ontology

Chapter 72
Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
An ontology which corresponds rather to a vocabulary and usually does not base on a formal logic.
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Semantic Web Languages and Ontologies
Livia Predoiu (University of Mannheim, Germany) and Anna V. Zhdanova (University of Surrey, UK)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch072
Abstract
On the current World Wide Web, most of the information is stored syntactically, i.e., only as data. The information that lies within the data can only be understood by humans and not automatically by computer programs. In order to overcome this issue, the idea of encoding the information not just syntactically but also with semantics has created a new notion of the Web called Semantic Web. This notion emerged together with developments of semi-structured languages like SGML and XML.
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Structuring the Cultural Domain with an Upper Ontology of Culture
According to Mizoguchi (2003), lightweight ontology “includes ontologies for web search engines like Yahoo ontology which consists of a topic hierarchy with little consideration of rigorous definition of a concept, principle of concept organization, distinction between word and concept, etc. The main purpose of such a hierarchy is to power up the search engine and hence it is very use-dependent.”
Published in Chapter: Structuring the Cultural Domain with an Upper Ontology of Culture; From: Handbook of Research on Culturally-Aware Information Technology: Perspectives and Models
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