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May 2002
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2002)
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Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2002)
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Abstract:
Several languages have been proposed as candidates for semantic markup. We needed to adopt a language for our current research on developing user-oriented tools operating over the Semantic Web. This paper presents the results of our analysis of three candidates that we considered: XML, RDF, and DAML+OIL along with their associated schemas and ontology specifications. The analysis focuses on the expressiveness of each language, and is presented along several dimensions and summarized in a comparison table. A surprising result of our analysis is the decision to adopt XML(Schema) for practical reasons, since it is able to accommodate a relatively expressive set of constructs and is widely known and commercially supported. We also discuss how we plan to complement XML(S) with a small set of conventions, so that we will have an easier transition to other markup languages in the future.
FLAIRS
Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference (FLAIRS 2002)
ISBN 978-1-57735-141-2
Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California