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AO
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
In a series of papers over a period of several years Barry Smith and Werner Ceusters have offered a number of cogent criticisms of historical approaches to creating, maintaining, a...
SYNTHESE
2011
13 years 7 days ago
2011
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I argue that no convincing reason has been given for thinking so. A crucial ...
ECIS
2003
13 years 6 months ago
2003
Although different strands of “post-approaches” and “post-theories”, for example, grounded theory and structuration theory, have gained popularity in Information Systems (...
EKAW
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2006
Springer
Abstract. The call for a "focus on content" in ontology research by Nicola Guarino and Mark Musen in their launching statement of the journal Applied Ontology has quite s...
ITS
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2010
Springer
General-purpose ontologies (e.g. WordNet) are convenient, but they are not always scientifically valid. We draw on techniques from semantic class learning to improve the scientific...