From: AAAI Technical Report SS-02-06. Compilation copyright © 2002, AAAI (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved. Panel: Large KnowledgeBases AdamPease (Teknowledge, chair), Chris Welty (Vassar College), Pat Hayes (U. West Florida), Anthony G. Cohn (U. Leeds), Ken Murray (SRI)

Fellbaum, C. (1998). WordNet, An Electronic Lexical Database. MITPress. Abstract Lenat, D., 1995, ": A Large-Scale Investment in It is estimated that 1-2 exabytes of data is now being KnowledgeInfrastructure". Communicationsof the ACM generated each year, almost all of it in purely digital form 38, no. 1 !, November.See also http://www.c¥c.com (Lymanet. ai. 2000). Properly structured, this information could form a global knowledge base. Currently however, Lyman,P., Varian, H., Dunn, J., Strygin, A., Swearingen, this information exists in manydifferent forms, manyof K., (2000). HowMuch Information?, University California, which are only suitable for humanconsumption, and which Berkeley are largely opaque to computerbased understanding. Majorefforts to build large formal ontologies or address http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/project.,ghow-much- issues in their construction have been undertaken funded by info the government in the US such as the DARPAKnowledge Niles, I., & Pease, A., (2001), Towarda Standard Upper Sharing Effort (Patil et al, 1992), High Performance Ontology, in Proceedings of the 2nd International KnowledgeBases (Cohen et. al., 1998), Rapid Knowledge Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems Formation (RKF, 2002) and in Europe including Advanced (FOIS-2001). See also http:llonlology.teknowledge.com KnowledgeTechnologies (Shadboit, 2001) and OntoWeb and http:l/suo.ieee.org (OntoWeb,2002), as international standards efforts such the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology (Niles & Pease, 2001) OntoWeb(2002). Homepage: http://www.ontoweb.org/ and by private corporations including Cycorp(Lenat, 1995) and VerticaiNet (Roddyet. al., 2000). Patil, R., Fikes, R., Patei-Schneider, P., Mckay,D., Finin, Wewill discuss T., Gruber, T., and Necbes, R., (1992). The DARPA the applicability of these efforts to question KnowledgeSharing Effort: Progress Report, In Charles answering and how they might augment Rich, Bernhard Nebel, & William Swartout, Principles of informationretrieval. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of ¯ progress of these efforts and the rate at which the Third International Conference, Cambridge, MA, competent knowledgebases will be able to support Morgan Kaufmann. question-answeringtasks of various kinds. ¯ how upper ontologies, particularly spatial and RKF, (2002). The DARPARapid Knowledge Formation temporal ontologies can impact question- answeringtasks. web site: http:l/projects.teknowledge.comfRKF ¯ Is the rate of progress and cost of building Roddy, D., Obrst, L., Cheyer, A., (2000). Communication ontologies going to pay off?. ¯ and Collaboration in a Landscape of B2BeMarketplaces. Can ontology-based systems work synergistically VerticalNet white paper with IR-based systems? ¯ http://www.commerce.net/research/ebusiness- Are small ontologies better than large ontologies? strategies/2000/00..09. r.html

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