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AI
2003
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
A Formal Theory for Describing Action Concepts in Terminological Knowledge Bases
This paper introduces a formal theory for describing actions in terminological knowledge bases, closely related to description logics. It deals in particular with the problem of ad...
Christel Kemke
EKAW
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A Formal Ontology of Properties
A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a v...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
ECAI
2000
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Identity, Unity, and Individuality: Towards a Formal Toolkit for Ontological Analysis
We introduce here the notions of identity and unity as they have been discussed in Philosophy, and then provide additional clarifications needed to use these notions as fundamental...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
MENTA: inducing multilingual taxonomies from wikipedia
In recent years, a number of projects have turned to Wikipedia to establish large-scale taxonomies that describe orders of magnitude more entities than traditional manually built ...
Gerard de Melo, Gerhard Weikum
AAAI
1996
13 years 8 months ago
Scaling Up Explanation Generation: Large-Scale Knowledge Bases and Empirical Studies
To explain complex phenomena, an explanation system must be able to select information from a formal representation of domain knowledge, organize the selected information into mul...
James C. Lester, Bruce W. Porter