Using an ontology to simplify data access
Eduard H. Hovy · Communications of the ACM · 2003
When we turn to government for information, we expect it to be timely, thorough, and above all accurate. However, we also demand that government be split in many different ways—federal, state, and local; executive, judicial, and legislative; tax management separated from pensions and health, etc., and that their data be collected at different times by different people. The resulting heterogeneity (especially