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This paper is a reconsideration of the approach to ontology used in some projects over the last several years. The view expressed here is that ontology has been a sometimes useful, but often-troublesome component in applied AI systems. This is especially true as the domain of the system is beyond a tight single domain. The conclusion is that a different approach can be used to extend the usefulness of ontologies in broad domain systems.
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Hartung, R.L. (2011). Ontology Reconsidered. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6884. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23866-6_43
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