Abstract. Due to the inherent difficulties associated with manual ontology building, knowledge acquisition and reuse are often seen as methods that can make this tedious process ea...
Elena Paslaru Bontas, David Schlangen, Thomas Schr...
Background: Biomedical ontologies are being widely used to annotate biological data in a computer-accessible, consistent and well-defined manner. However, due to their size and co...
Catherine Beauheim, Farrell Wymore, Michael Nitzbe...
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....
In this paper we present a new approach for building RDF schemas by integrating existing ontologies and structured vocabularies (thesauri). We will present a simple mechanism base...
Using category theoretic notions, in particular diagrams and their colimits, we provide a common semantic backbone for various notions of modularity in structured ontologies, and o...