Some Ongoing KBS/Ontology Projects and Groups

useful Ontology and KR collections
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mfkb/related.html

• Ontology Building Tools - For building and managing ontologies. See Michael Denny's survey of ontology editors (2002), and also the following specific tools:
• Chimaera
• EXPECT
• the Generic Knowledge-Base Editor
• JOE (Java Ontology Editor)
• Jumper (for biological data)
• KAON
• KACTUS
• OntoEdit
• Ontosaurus
• Protege
• Sigma
• Shaken
• Snobase
• VINE - A tool to map ontologies
• WordMap

and additional systems under Knowledge Acquisition Tools.

• Ontology Learning Tools - Automated/assisted techniques for building an ontology. Also see a good survey of ontology learning methods and techniques (OntoWeb deliverable 1.5, A. Gomez-Perez, D. Manzano-Macho).
• The New Ontology of the Mental Causation Debate - an AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) funded research project, attempting to frame the debate with more metaphysical precision, and explore the consequences of that reframing (Univ Durham, UK).
• Ontology Merging Tools - See Chimera and PROMPT. Also see Carter, a tool for helping experts build a consensus KB.
• Ontologies - Dealing with multiple ontologies - See InfoQuilt.