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ASWC
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Modular Ontologies - A Formal Investigation of Semantics and Expressivity
With the growing interest in modular ontology languages to address the need for collaborative development, integration, and use of ontologies on the Web, there is an urgent need fo...
Jie Bao, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar
SEMWEB
2004
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Model Theoretic Semantics for Ontology Versioning
Abstract. We show that the Semantic Web needs a formal semantics for the various kinds of links between ontologies and other documents. We provide a model theoretic semantics that ...
Jeff Heflin, Zhengxiang Pan
SCIE
1997
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Semantic Matching: Formal Ontological Distinctions for Information Organization, Extraction, and Integration
Abstract. The task of information extraction can be seen as a problem of semantic matching between a user-defined template and a piece of information written in natural language. T...
Nicola Guarino
FOMI
2008
13 years 5 months ago
The Business of Ontology calls for a Formal Pragmatics
I develop a few suggestions how formal ontology can meet industry and practice. This is not just a matter of useful ontology-based applications. That is a necessary but also rather...
Hans Akkermans
OTM
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Inferring Complex Semantic Mappings Between Relational Tables and Ontologies from Simple Correspondences
There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...
Yuan An, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos