Abstract. We have been witnessing an explosion of user involvement in knowledge creation, publication and access both from within and between organisations. This is partly due to t...
This paper addresses the methodology of ontology construction. It identifies five styles of approach to ontologizing (deriving from philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, AI/c...
Abstract. Description Logics (DLs) are a family of class based knowledge representation formalisms characterised by the use of various constructors to build complex classes from si...
Abstract. Minimal generators (mingens) of concept intents are valuable elements of the Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) landscape, which are widely used in the database field, for da...
Abstract We describe the ‘Hierarchical as View’ approach to knowledge integration from heterogeneous sources. This is based on a novel representation called Layered Conceptual ...
Madalina Croitoru, Ernesto Compatangelo, Chris Mel...
In this paper, we aim at showing the advantages of Conceptual Graph formalism for the Semantic Web through several real-world applications in the framework of Corporate Semantic We...
A main feature of many logics used in computer science is a means to express quantification. Usually, syntactical devices like variables and quantifiers are used for this purpose...
This paper overviews and analyses the on-going research attempts to apply language technologies to automatic ontology acquisition. At first glance there are many successful approac...