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Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices: 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

by: William M. Tepfenhart, Walling Cyre
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3540662235  9783540662235 

 


Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices: 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, Blacksburg, VA, USA, July 12-15, 1999, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
By William M. Tepfenhart, Walling Cyre


 


Product Description:

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS'99, held in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA in July 1999.
The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Also included is a 65 page proposed draft standard for conceptual graphs. The papers are organized in sections on conceptual graph modeling; natural language; applications; SISYPHUS-I, contexts, logics and conceptual graphs; and position papers.



Summary: A very strong book on semantic representations
Rating: 5

With the increasing interest in semantic annotations (RDF and other applications lately advocated by Tim Berners-Lee, the "founder" of the web), it's useful to look at the research literature to see what people have been doing with "conceptual structures" for the past 4 decades.

Since the early days of AI, many scientists have grappled with the issues of knowledge representation. This book and its predecessors cover a conference on exactly that issue. Unlike some other treatments which I find to be either too theoretical or too pragmatic, this one covers just the right level of abstraction and practicality.

I references this and similar works in the design of the semantics annotation systems at Microsoft that will be seen in upcoming products.