John F. Sowa

11.0k citations
58 papers · 5.0k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 18
Topics
Semantic Web and Ontologies (28 papers)Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (13 papers)AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (9 papers)
Journals
SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaArtificial IntelligenceKnowledge-Based Systems

In The Last Decade

John F. Sowa

54 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and...198320261997201119832000199919924008001.2k

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John F. Sowa
Comparison fields: 5 of 155
  • Artificial Intelligence 2.9k
  • Information Systems 1.3k
  • Management Information Systems 790
  • Computer Networks and Communications 684
  • Language and Linguistics 430
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All Works

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A Dynamic Theory of Ontology
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The challenge of knowledge soup
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Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical, and computational foundationsbreakdown →
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Review of Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to western thought by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Basic Books 1999.
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Review of Language at work: analyzing communication breakdown in the workplace to inform systems design by Keith Devlin and Duska Rosenberg. CSLI Publications 1996.
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Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Conceptual Structures: Applications, Implementation and Theory
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Conceptual Graphs for Knowledge Representation: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 93, Quebec, Canada, August 4-7, 1993
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Conceptual graphs summary
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Principles of semantic networks : explorations in the representation of knowledge
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Definitional mechanisms for restructuring knowledge bases
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Using a lexicon of canonical graphs in a semantic interpreter
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Knowledge Representation in Databases, Expert Systems, and Natural Language.
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About John F. Sowa

John F. Sowa is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, History and Philosophy of Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 58 papers that have together received 5.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Semantic Web and Ontologies (28 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (13 papers) and AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Artificial Intelligence (2.9k citations), Management Information Systems (790 citations) and Information Systems (1.3k citations). John F. Sowa has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Poland. Frequent co-authors include John A. Zachman, Eileen Cornell Way, Joscha Bach, Ben Goertzel, Matthew Schlesinger, Stuart C. Shapiro, Itamar Arel, Alexei V. Samsonovich, Matthias Scheutz and Adrian Walker. Their work appears in journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge-Based Systems.

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