The performance of an ontology alignment technique largely depends on the amount of information that can be leveraged for the alignment task. On the Semantic Web, end-users may ex...
This study develops an ontology building process for extracting conceptual tags and hierarchies in textual corpus. Though humans have been creating ontologies for many years, effi...
In this paper, we introduce principles for ontology-based querying of information bases. We consider a framework in which a basis ontology over atomic concepts in combination with ...
The problem of inconsistency handling in ontologies has recently been attracting a lot of attention. When inconsistency occurs in an ontology, there are mainly two ways to deal wit...
: Foundational ontologies provide the basic concepts upon which any domain-specific ontology is built. This paper presents a new foundational ontology, UFO, and shows how it can be...