Towards compatible primitive structures
Guy William Mineau · Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence · 1992
This paper addresses the problem of knowledge interchange between two knowledge-based systems whose knowledge is represented using the conceptual graph formalism of Sowa (1984). For this work it is assumed that there are protocols allowing these systems to communicate, consequently a channel between the systems can be established and graphs can be exchanged. This paper concentrates on the translation of graphs from one system's semantics to the other's. Without such translation, the exchanged graphs would remain useless. The method this paper proposes aims at relating different syntactical structures by detecting their co-occurrence in semantically similar contexts. Because we need to identify such contexts, the method requires the intervention of knowledge engineers of both systems