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Title: Ontology Learning for the Semantic Web (The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Volume 665) by Alexander Maedche ISBN: 0-7923-7656-0 Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $105.00

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Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Somewhat sloppy, not much else available
Comment: Learning onltologies for the semantic web is an important area. If the semantic web is to succeed, the embedded ontologies of existing web pages will need to be discovered. As much as possible, this discovery process should be unsupervised. This book addresses ontolgoy discusses issues.

This book appears to be a compilation/extension of work/presentations that the author has presented at conferences and workshops. Some parts of the text are sloppy. Numbers puportedly generated by the application of certain equations appear to be wrong (for example, page 126, (equations 6.5 and 6.6). Some discussions on important issues are incomplete.

At the same time, there is not much else available in text form that covers this important and rapidly developing area. If $105 (the book's new price) is inconsequential to you, acquiring the book is not a bad idea. If the price matters, perhaps you should consider downloading the author's papers that overlap much of the material in the text; many of these can be found by an appropriate Google search.

Rating: 4
Summary: Nicely organized introduction for brand new research area
Comment: The writer has been consistently working on one subject, ontology, for a long time. And this book is a good introduction for those who are fed up with learning a new acronym and its one or two page tutorial, but are (or want to be) serious in ontology.

Rating: 2
Summary: Beware!
Comment: I suppose this is a very interesting book, if one is familiar enough with this concept of "Ontological learning" (which is somewhat explained in the book).

I fell for the title because I work in information organisation, but this book has nothing to do with ontology and/or ontologies as such. It does deal with knowledge organisation and knowledge discovery, but in a largely academical (I would say) and at any rate mostly mathematical way. Get ready for an orgy of algebra!

The Knuths among us will no doubt appreciate. In my case, it was a bit of a disappointment.

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