Domain-Specific Ontology of Botany

Domain-specific ontologies are greatly useful in knowledge acquisition,sharing and analysis. In this paper, botany-specific ontology for acquiring and analyzing botanicalknowledge is presented. The ontology is represented in a set of well-defined categories, and eachconcept is viewed as an instance of certain category. The authors also introduce botany-specificaxioms, an integral part of the ontology, for checking and reasoning with the acquired knowledge.Consistency, completeness and redundancy of the axioms are discussed.

生物学领域本体

“本体”原本是哲学上的概念，是表示哲学理论的一个术语，在西方哲学史和中国哲学史中分别具有各自的含义。在西方哲学史中，本体论是指关于存在及其本质和规律的学说。在中国古代哲学中，本体论又叫做“本根论”，指探究天地万物产生、存在、发展变化的根本原因和根本依据的学说。