Characterising Concept's Properties in Ontologies

Abstract. This paper presents and motivates an extended ontology conceptual model which represents explicitly semantic information about concepts. This model results from explicitly representing information which precisely characterises the concept’s properties and expected ambiguities, including which properties are prototypical of a concept and which are exceptional, the behaviour of properties over time and the degree of applicability of properties to subconcepts. This enriched conceptual model permits a precise characterisation of what is represented by class membership mechanisms and helps a knowledge engineer to determine, in a straightforward manner, the meta-properties holding for a concept. Moreover, this enriched semantics facilitates the development of reasoning mechanisms on the state of affairs that instantiate the ontologies. Such reasoning mechanisms can be used in order to solve ambiguities that can arise when ontologies are integrated and one needs to reason with th...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: AIIA
• Authors: Valentina A. M. Tamma, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon
• Keywords: AIIA 2001, Artificial Intelligence, Conceptual Model, Ontology Conceptual Model, Reasoning Mechanisms