A Survey on Uyghur Ontology

Ontology has become a hot research topic in the fields of artificial intelligence such as knowledge representation, knowledge engineering and natural language processing (NLP) etc.. In this paper, according to the application requirements in the intelligent Uyghur information retrieval system, by giving the brief description about the ontology and its construction rules, methods, tools and descriptive languages, have conducted the contrastive analysis the current research status about the ontology in domestic and abroad, and then sum up some key issues in Uyghur ontology construction procedures and some early achievements. After all, the further research directions are also proposed in this paper.