Although sorts and unary predicates are semantically identical in order-sorted logic, they are classified as different kinds of properties in formal ontology (e.g. sortal and non...
Ontologies are more than an elaborate approach to the definition and classification of information. They play a vital role in various web-oriented applications that makes a corr...
Ontology Learning from text aims at generating domain ontologies from textual resources by applying natural language processing and machine learning techniques. It is inherent in t...
Ontologies and rules are usually loosely coupled in knowledge representation formalisms. In fact, ontologies use open-world reasoning while the leading semantics for rules use non...
An important question for the upcoming Semantic Web is how to best combine open world ontology languages, such as the OWL-based ones, with closed world rule-based languages. One o...