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The semantics of order-sorted type hierarchies are fundamental both to the retrieval of knowledge from large real-world-size knowledge bases and to the next generation of web technology. The Chrysostom web knowledge-base project provides an interesting case for furthering this research. An attempt to model the social world of the late Roman Empire, this knowledge base rests upon an ontology which uses the knowledge found in a very large body of documents associated with the cities of Antioch in ancient Syria and Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in the fourth and fifth centuries. We describe the knowledge base and its use, as well as the ontology that was created (and continues to develop) to support it.
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Corbett, D., Mayer, W. (2004). The Chrysostom Knowledge Base: An Ontology of Historical Interactions. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2004: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3290. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30468-5_46
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