Abstract. Recent research showed the benefits of adopting formal ontologies as a means for accessing heterogeneous data sources. The use of an ontology not only provides a uniform...
This paper describes a semi-automatic method for associating a Japanese lexicon with a semantic concept taxonomy called an ontology, using a Japanese-English bilingual dictionary ...
The Information Society relies more and more on the co-operation and collaboration of multidisciplinary people who need to communicate and share information. Communication and kno...
Researchers in the ontology-design field have developed the content for ontologies in many domain areas. Recently, ontologies have become increasingly common on the WorldWide Web ...
This paper presents our practical experience of developing an ontology using the EXPLODE method for Value-Added Publishing. Value-Added Publishing is a relatively new area of elec...
Abstract. The fields of philosophy and informatics entertain two somewhat different conceptions of ontology. Philosophical ontology is a branch of metaphysics dating back at least ...
An important emerging need in Model Organism Databases (MODs) and other bioinformatics databases (DBs) is that of capturing the scientific evidence that supports the information wi...
Peter D. Karp, Suzanne M. Paley, Cynthia J. Kriege...
In an audience driven approach to website design, the requirements of the different audiences are modeled as separated tiny conceptual schemas comparable to views. This has severa...
This paper describes why and how an ontology facilitates the sharing and trading of knowledge. It intoduces the underlying concept of a knowledge market place and how an ontology ...
The basic argument presented in the paper is that actor network theory has often been forced to adopt the ontology of interpretivism and thus suppress its own ontology. Interpreti...