%0 Conference Paper %1 gardenfors2004 %A Gärdenfors, Peter %B Formal Ontology in Information Systems: proceedings of the third international conference (FOIS-2004) %D 2004 %E Varzi, Achille C. %E Vieu, Laure %I IOS Press %K imported %P 17--34 %T How to Make the Semantic Web More Semantic %V 114 %X The Semantic Web is not semantic. It is good for syllogistic reasoning, but there is much more to semantics than syllogisms. I argue that the current Semantic Web is too dependent on symbolic representations of information structures, which limits its representational capacity. As a remedy, I propose conceptual spaces as a tool for expressing more of the semantics. Conceptual spaces are built up from quality dimensions that have geometric or topological structures. With the aid of the di-mensions, similarities between objects can easily be represented and it is argued that similarity is a central aspect of semantic content. By sorting the dimensions into do-mains, I define properties and concepts and show how prototype effects of concepts can be treated with the aid of conceptual spaces. I present an outline of how one can reconstruct most of the taxonomies and other meta-data that are explicitly coded in the current Semantic Web and argue that inference engines on the symbolic level will become largely superfluous. As an example of the semantic power of conceptual spaces, I show how concept combinations can be analysed in a much richer and more accurate way than in the classical logical approach.

@inproceedings{gardenfors2004, abstract = {The Semantic Web is not semantic. It is good for syllogistic reasoning, but there is much more to semantics than syllogisms. I argue that the current Semantic Web is too dependent on symbolic representations of information structures, which limits its representational capacity. As a remedy, I propose conceptual spaces as a tool for expressing more of the semantics. Conceptual spaces are built up from quality dimensions that have geometric or topological structures. With the aid of the di-mensions, similarities between objects can easily be represented and it is argued that similarity is a central aspect of semantic content. By sorting the dimensions into do-mains, I define properties and concepts and show how prototype effects of concepts can be treated with the aid of conceptual spaces. I present an outline of how one can reconstruct most of the taxonomies and other meta-data that are explicitly coded in the current Semantic Web and argue that inference engines on the symbolic level will become largely superfluous. As an example of the semantic power of conceptual spaces, I show how concept combinations can be analysed in a much richer and more accurate way than in the classical logical approach.}, added-at = {2009-10-23T10:49:34.000+0200}, author = {Gärdenfors, Peter}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/237ba3e6df66b48dbcc934827f18318d3/gerhard.wohlgenannt}, booktitle = {Formal Ontology in Information Systems: proceedings of the third international conference (FOIS-2004)}, description = {phd thesis version 2009-10-23}, editor = {Varzi, Achille C. and Vieu, Laure}, id = {919887}, interhash = {1b7a5b9a6728ba0bf8fd081c80c31bcd}, intrahash = {37ba3e6df66b48dbcc934827f18318d3}, keywords = {imported}, pages = {17--34}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IOS Press}, series = {Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications}, timestamp = {2009-10-23T10:49:34.000+0200}, title = {How to Make the Semantic Web More Semantic}, volume = 114, year = 2004 }