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ER
2009
Springer
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14 years 2 months ago
FOCIH: Form-Based Ontology Creation and Information Harvesting
Creating an ontology and populating it with data are both labor-intensive tasks requiring a high degree of expertise. Thus, scaling ontology creation and population to the size of ...
Cui Tao, David W. Embley, Stephen W. Liddle
OTM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Efficient Management of Biomedical Ontology Versions
Abstract. Ontologies have become very popular in life sciences and other domains. They mostly undergo continuous changes and new ontology versions are frequently released. However,...
Toralf Kirsten, Michael Hartung, Anika Gross, Erha...
KCAP
2003
ACM
14 years 21 days ago
Modularisation of domain ontologies implemented in description logics and related formalisms including OWL
Modularity is a key requirement for large ontologies in order to achieve re-use, maintainability, and evolution. Mechanisms for ‘normalisation’ to achieve analogous aims are s...
Alan L. Rector
GIS
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Handling semantic heterogeneities using declarative agreements
The focus of this paper is on interoperability issues to achieve data integration in distributed databases for geographic applications. Our concrete application is in the context ...
Isabel F. Cruz, Afsheen Rajendran, William Sunna, ...
ODBIS
2007
Springer
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14 years 1 months ago
Maintaining Semantic Mappings between Database Schemas and Ontologies
There is a growing need to define a semantic mapping from a database schema to an ontology. Such a mapping is an integral part of the data integration systems that use an ontology...
Yuan An, Thodoros Topaloglou