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AO
2005
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14 years 10 months ago
Domain modelling and NLP: Formal ontologies? Lexica? Or a bit of both?
There are a number of genuinely open questions concerning the use of domain models in nlp. It would be great if contributors to Applied Ontology could help addressing them rather ...
Massimo Poesio
ECAI
2000
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Identity, Unity, and Individuality: Towards a Formal Toolkit for Ontological Analysis
We introduce here the notions of identity and unity as they have been discussed in Philosophy, and then provide additional clarifications needed to use these notions as fundamental...
Nicola Guarino, Christopher A. Welty
DEXA
2000
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
A Qualitative Formalization of Built Environments
Abstract. In this paper I argue that a qualitative formalization of built environments needs to take into account: (1) the ontological distinction between bonafide and fiat bound...
Thomas Bittner
ECAI
2008
Springer
14 years 11 months ago
A Formal Approach for RDF/S Ontology Evolution
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of ontology evolution in the face of a change operation. We devise a general-purpose algorithm for determining the effects and side...
George Konstantinidis, Giorgos Flouris, Grigoris A...
ESWS
2009
Springer
15 years 4 months ago
The Relevance of Reasoning and Alignment Incoherence in Ontology Matching
Abstract. Ontology matching has become an important field of research over the last years. Although many different approaches have been proposed, only few of them are committed t...
Christian Meilicke