Cyclic definitions are often prohibited in terminological knowledge representation languages because, from a theoretical point of view, their semantics is not clear and, from a pr...
I examine how terminological languages can be used to manage linguistic data during NL research and development. In particular, I consider the lexical semantics task of characteri...
Abstract, We consider the problem of integrating Reiter's default logic into terminological representation systems. It turns out that such an integration is less straightforwa...
Environmental databases store a wide variety of data from heterogeneous sources which are described with domain-specific terminologies and refer to distinct locations. In order to ...
This article reflects an ongoing effort to systematize the use of terms applied by philosophers and computer scientists in the context of ontology and ontological engineering. We s...