AASS Seminar - How to build an ontology and why use it in robotics

The research centre AASS arranges a seminar with Stefano Borgo, Laboratory for Applied Ontology, ISTC CNR, Trento.

Abstract

The talk is divided in two parts. In the first we introduce foundational ontologies and their role in knowledge organization and exploitation. In particular, we discuss bad and good examples of ontologies and distinguish ontological vs contextual information. In the second part, we look at how ontology can help artificial agents to achieve and manage commonsense/cognitive knowledge. With this level of knowledge available, we will see that a robot can reason on the actual scenario and on its own capacities in a way that is more similar to that of human agents. It can also describe the world in a way that is understandable to humans improving its capacity to interact with them.