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It has been ten years since John Sowa's book Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine was first published. Since that time, the representational language known as Conceptual Graphs has been adopted by researchers all over the world for a wide variety of tasks. This tenth anniversary is an appropriate time to look at the growth and evolution of conceptual graphs, the changes in the field of knowledge representation, and the significance of the kind of ontological engineering involved in representing knowledge for intelligent systems.
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Way, E.C. (1994). Conceptual graphs — Past, present, and future. In: Tepfenhart, W.M., Dick, J.P., Sowa, J.F. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Current Practices. ICCS 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 835. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58328-9_2
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