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PRICAI
2000
Springer
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Functional Understanding Based on an Ontology of Functional Concepts
Abstract. This article discusses automatic identifications of functional structures of artifacts from given behavioral models of components and their connection information (called...
Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshinobu Sano, Riichiro Mizog...
KDD
2000
ACM
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Effective Retrieval of Audio Information from Annotated Text Using Ontologies
To improve the accuracy in terms of precision and recall of an audio information retrieval system we have created a domainspecific ontology (a collection of key concepts and their...
Latifur Khan, Dennis McLeod
EKAW
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Construction and Deployment of a Plant Ontology
Although the necessity of an ontology and ontological engineering is well-understood, there has been few success stories about ontology construction and its deployment to date. Thi...
Riichiro Mizoguchi, Kouji Kozaki, Toshinobu Sano, ...
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Modelling Ontology Evaluation and Validation
We present a comprehensive approach to ontology evaluation and validation, which have become a crucial problem for the development of semantic technologies. Existing evaluation met...
Aldo Gangemi, Carola Catenacci, Massimiliano Ciara...
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Ideas and Improvements for Semantic Wikis
We present an architecture for combining wikis containing hypertext with ontologies containing formal, structured information. A web-based ontology editor that supports collaborati...
Jochen Fischer, Zeno Gantner, Steffen Rendle, Manu...
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Resolving Inconsistencies in Evolving Ontologies
Abstract. Changing a consistent ontology may turn the ontology into an inconsistent state. It is the task of an approach supporting ontology evolution to ensure an ontology evolves...
Peter Plessers, Olga De Troyer
ESWS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Winnowing Ontologies Based on Application Use
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are designed and built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large fo...
Harith Alani, Stephen Harris, Ben O'Neil
EKAW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Ontology Engineering, Scientific Method and the Research Agenda
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...
Hans Akkermans, Jaap Gordijn
EDBTW
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Summa Contra Ontologiam
This paper is a critical analysis of the concept of ontology thus as it is used in computing science. It identifies three main problems with such a concept, two of which are intri...
Simone Santini
DAWAK
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Versioning Management Model for Ontology-Based Data Warehouses
More and more integration systems use ontologies to solve the problem of semantic heterogeneities between autonomous databases. To automate the integration process, a number of the...
Dung Nguyen Xuan, Ladjel Bellatreche, Guy Pierra