Ontology (information science)
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In computer science and information science, an ontology is a formal representation of the knowledge by a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. It is used to reason about the properties of that domain, and may be used to describe the domain.
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See also
- Commonsense knowledge bases
- Controlled vocabulary
- Folksonomy
- Formal concept analysis
- Formal ontology
- Lattice
- Ontology alignment
- Ontology chart
- Ontology editor
- Ontology learning
- Open Biomedical Ontologies
- Soft ontology
- Terminology extraction
- Weak ontology
- Web Ontology Language
- Related philosophical concepts
- Alphabet of human thought
- Characteristica universalis
- Interoperability
- Metalanguage
- Natural semantic metalanguage
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