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ARTMED
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A formal theory for spatial representation and reasoning in biomedical ontologies
Objective: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate how a formal spatial theory can be used as an important tool for disambiguating the spatial information embodied in biomed...
Maureen Donnelly, Thomas Bittner, Cornelius Rosse
AIMSA
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards Ontological Blending
We propose ontological blending as a new method for `creatively' combining ontologies. In contrast to other combination techniques that aim at integrating or assimilating cate...
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, John A....
JAIR
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Modular Reuse of Ontologies: Theory and Practice
In this paper, we propose a set of tasks that are relevant for the modular reuse of ontologies. In order to formalize these tasks as reasoning problems, we introduce the notions o...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
SUM
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Combining Uncertain Outputs from Multiple Ontology Matchers
Abstract. An ontology matching method (or a matcher) aims at matching every entity (or concept) in one ontology to the most suitable entity (or entities) in another ontology. Usual...
Ying Wang, Weiru Liu, David A. Bell
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Lightweight Community-Driven Ontology Evolution
Only few well-maintained domain ontologies can be found on the Web. The likely reasons for the lack of useful domain ontologies include that (1) informal means to convey intended m...
Katharina Siorpaes