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Towards Automating the Representation and Processing of Semantic Knowledge

 

Lisa Cox's dissertation was successfully defended in July 2008. The work is presently being updated, expanded, and reformatted for web publication as a hyperlinked document. As the various web pages are completed and linked together, they will appear here.


 

Fields of study that impact this work "Big ideas" that influence the work Major Theses
 
Mostly linear (book-like) form of the work

Philosophy: The study of knowledge (epistemology)

Psychology: How humans process knowledge

Linguistics: How languages are used to represent knowledge

Cognitive Science: Interdisciplinary area involving all these fields of study

Computer Science:
-Artificial Intelligence (AI):
   -Knowledge
     Representation (KR):
   -Semantic Processing
   -Knowledge on the
     Internet:
      -The Semantic Web