A Layered Declarative Approach to Ontology Translation with Knowledge Preservation

The word "ontology" was once the darling of graduate students in philosophy, who understood it to be a systematic explanation of being. Now computer scientists, knowledge engineers and designers of artificial intelligence devices understand it to be a well-defined specification of a shared conceptualization, or abstract model, and apply it to "ontology languages." Corcho (ontological engineering, U. Politécnica de Madrid) presents a new model for building and maintaining ontology translatio...