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IIWAS
2007
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Sub-Ontology Discovery for Adaptive Re-use
: The discovery of the ”right” ontology or ontology part is a central ingredient for effective ontology re-use. We present an approach for supporting a form of adaptive re-use...
Rodolfo Stecher, Claudia Niederée, Wolfgang...
LREC
2008
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Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation Tool (S-OntoEval)
The objective of the Semiotic-based Ontology Evaluation Tool (S-OntoEval) is to evaluate and propose improvements to a given ontological model. The evaluation aims at assessing th...
Renata Dividino, Massimo Romanelli, Daniel Sonntag
IICAI
2007
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Hierarchical Course Knowledge Representation using Ontologies
In this paper we present a method to represent knowledge associated with a course. Course knowledge can be represented in the form of hierarchical prerequisite relation based weigh...
Javed I. Khan, Manas Hardas
LREC
2008
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Development and Alignment of a Domain-Specific Ontology for Question Answering
With the appearance of Semantic Web technologies, it becomes possible to develop novel, sophisticated question answering systems, where ontologies are usually used as the core kno...
Shiyan Ou, Viktor Pekar, Constantin Orasan, Christ...
LREC
2008
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Ontology Learning and Semantic Annotation: a Necessary Symbiosis
Semantic annotation of text requires the dynamic merging of linguistically structured information and a "world model", usually represented as a domain-specific ontology....
Emiliano Giovannetti, Simone Marchi, Simonetta Mon...
ICAI
2007
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Domain Ontology Construction from Biomedical Text
- NLM's Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a very large ontology of biomedical and health data. In order to be used effectively for knowledge processing, it needs to be...
Saurav Sahay, Baoli Li, Ernest V. Garcia, Eugene A...
ICWSM
2008
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Wikipedia as an Ontology for Describing Documents
Identifying topics and concepts associated with a set of documents is a task common to many applications. It can help in the annotation and categorization of documents and be used...
Zareen Saba Syed, Tim Finin, Anupam Joshi
HCI
2007
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OntoGen: Semi-automatic Ontology Editor
In this paper we present a semi-automatic ontology editor as implemented in a new version of OntoGen system. The system integrates machine learning and text mining algorithms into ...
Blaz Fortuna, Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic
FOMI
2008
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Roles: A Four-Dimensional Analysis
In ontology the underlying nature of things is sought. Thus it is that the roles things play can sometimes be neglected. Some different sorts of things that get called roles: place...
Matthew West
FOMI
2008
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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