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Cognitive Science includes Cognitive Philosophy, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Anthropology, NeuroScience, Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
In the frame of AI, a necessity emerged for the mechanical representation of explicit linguistic knowledge in the form of a typical mathematical language, including also reasoning mechanisms. The most widely used languages for this purpose are the Propositional Calculus (PC) and the First Order Predicate Calculus (FOPC).
The lesson includes:
- Knowledge definition: The location of Knowledge as Semantic Information in the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom (DIKW) schema suggested by
- Knowledge representation: An introduction of PC and FOPC with examples of logical
- Knowledge organization: taxonomies, thesauri, lexica and encyclopedias. Presentation of famous encyclopedias of the ancient, medieval and renaissance times.
- Knowledge description: RDF language for the description of electronic or material resources
- Integrated knowledge representation & reasoning in ontologies: Universe of Discourse, concepts/ classes as categories of individuals (objects). User-defined relations between individuals of different classes or the same class. User-defined properties of the members of a class. Description Logic incorporated for logical deduction. Information retrieval through SQL in ontologies (SPARQL).