PurposeNet : An Ontological Resource Organized Around Purpose
P. Kiran Mayee, Rajeev Sangal, Soma Paul, Navjyoti Singh · 2008
Every artifact has a purpose. Its subparts also have a purpose. Purposes can therefore be used to organize knowledge. PurposeNet is a knowledge base of objects and actions in which the knowledge is organized around purpose. Such knowledge also connects with language – namely, verbs for related actions. It can be used with an embedded reasoner, resulting in an effective system for QA, topic-listing, summarization and other tasks. This paper deals with the design of PurposeNet and its implementation. It explains the development of a universally usable simple and robust resource. 1.