Formal ontology for subject

Welty, Chris; Jenkins, J. Geraint

doi:10.1016/s0169-023x(99)90021-6

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“…Our approach bears comparison to the ontology developed by Welty and Jenkins (1999) in connection with a project to maintain marked-up electronic versions of US civil war documents. Their ontology consists of five dimensions: 'document type' (book, journal, etc.…”

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2005

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“…One approach is to standardise information items using a specialised representation framework (or ontology) to aid in the retrieval process. Attribute grammars, concept hierarchies, and philosophical frameworks have been utilised for this purpose (Gancarski, 1994;Hars, 2001;Welty and Jenkins, 1999).…”

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2005

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“…And on the other, there is (b) the issue of not only using a class as a property value, but also, the possibility of altering its original intended meaning in the process as a result. This additional complexity found in (b), could be due to the type of example chosen to discuss the pattern, and linked to the intrinsic challenges associated to the ontological representation of the notion of subject as discussed in [15].…”

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Alignment of Ontology Design Patterns: Class As Property Value, Value Partition and Normalisation

Rodriguez-Castro

Hepp

2012

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012

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Abstract. Design-pattern driven ontology construction, whether manual or (partially) automated, relies on the availability of curated repositories of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) adequately characterized. In order to consistently apply a given ODP, not only it is important to characterize it in full, but also examine its alignment or deviation to other relevant ODPs in relation to it. Otherwise, possible inconsistencies in the application can lead to interoperability issues among the ontology models involved. In that context, this paper revisits a specific version of three different ODPs: Class as a Property Value (CPV), Value Partition (VP) and Normalisation. The review of the CPV identifies two distinct modelling problems being tangled that prompt to decouple the pattern into two variants: a strict and a coarse CPV pattern. The examination continues with a comparative analysis among the patterns that reveals key alignments and differences at the structural and semantic level. These findings extends the reusability and compositional characteristics of the strict and coarse variants of the CPV ODP in relation to the other two patterns. To illustrate our contribution existing examples in the literature are revisited. They demonstrate the alignments, differences and prototypical OWL idioms identified, which can assist ontology practitioners in mitigating the opportunity for inconsistencies when applying these recurrent ontology building blocks.

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“…Although we come from a different perspective, we acknowledge that approaches such as the mereotopological one [23] could be well suited also for the philosophical domain. We plan to investigate this issue further in future work.…”

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Capturing knowledge about philosophy

Pasin

Motta

Zdráhal

2007

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Capture

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In this paper, we present an ontology developed to support annotating and reasoning about philosophical knowledge. By this term, we refer to both the factual domain of philosophers, concerning their lives and publications, and the theoretical domain, concerning the ideas they have produced and their relationships. The ontology provides a novel model, which brings together a number of existing formalizations and a series of new ones. In this paper we describe the design of the ontology, in particular focusing on the solutions we have devised to address the modelling problems and natural language ambiguities, which occur when capturing knowledge in a domain as complex as that of philosophy. This work is being carried out in the context of developing a tool, PhiloSURFical, which aims to support ontology-driven exploration of philosophical resources. Specifically, the ontology makes it possible to navigate the philosophical domain, according to a number of narratives, which include theoretical, historical, argumentational, geographic, and others.

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Formal ontology for subject

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Capturing knowledge about philosophy

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