Abstract. As it is well-known, querying and managing structured data in natural language is a challenging task due to its ambiguity (syntactic and semantic) and its expressiveness....
Natural languages are easy to learn by infants, they can express any thought that any adult might ever conceive, and they accommodate the limitations of human breathing rates and s...
Formal principles governing best practices in classification and definition have for too long been neglected in the construction of biomedical ontologies, in ways which have import...
Abstract. A viable ontology engineering methodology requires supporting domain experts in gradually building and managing increasingly complex versions of ontological elements and ...
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...