An empirical analysis of optimization techniques for terminological representation systems : or: 'Making KRIS get a move on'
Franz Baader, Bernhard Hollunder, Bernhard Nebel, Hans-Jürgen Profitlich, Enrico Franconi · 1993
We consider different methods of optimizing the classification process of terminological representation systems, and evaluate their effect on three different types of test data. Though these techniques can probably be found in many existing systems, until now there has been no coherent description of these techniques and their impact on the performance of a system. One goal of this paper is to make such a description available for future implementors of terminological systems. Building the optimizations that came off best into the kris system greatly enhanced its efficiency. This is a revised and extended version of a paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, October Temporal Projection and Related Problems 1992, Cambridge, MA. Optimization Techniques for Terminological Representation Systems 1 1 Introduction Terminological representation systems can be used to represent the taxonomic and conceptual knowledge of a ...