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Indian logic based approach of knowledge representation fundamentally classifies the world knowledge into concepts, and relations, both enriched with special qualities. To be more precise, Nyaya Sastra recommends a special categorization of world knowledge which is supposed to be elaborate in tapping the minute details in the defined knowledge units. Nyaya logics are a mechanism which defines the concept and relation elements of ontology based on the epistemology of Nyaya-Vaisheshika school of Indian logic. We have already proposed an ontology reference model based on Nyaya logic, known as NORM. To develop an ontology using Nyaya logics, one should be aware of the syntax and semantics of NORM rdf. To overcome the difficulty involved in creating NORM based ontology, in this paper, we propose Gautama, a tool for editing the ontology based on Nyaya logics. We also discuss the steps for building the ontology for a sample from ‘Birds’ domain.
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Mahalakshmi, G.S., Geetha, T.V., Kumar, A., Kumar, D., Manikandan, S. (2008). Gautama – Ontology Editor Based on Nyaya Logic. In: Ramanujam, R., Sarukkai, S. (eds) Logic and Its Applications. ICLA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92701-3_17
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