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On the Ontological Modeling of Trees

Artificial Intelligence 2017-10-17 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Trees -- i.e., the type of data structure known under this name -- are central to many aspects of knowledge organization. We investigate some central design choices concerning the ontological modeling of such trees. In particular, we consider the limits of what is expressible in the Web Ontology Language, and provide a reusable ontology design pattern for trees.

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@article{arxiv.1710.05096,
  title  = {On the Ontological Modeling of Trees},
  author = {David Carral and Pascal Hitzler and Hilmar Lapp and Sebastian Rudolph},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.05096},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns, WOP 2017, co-located with the 16th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC2017, Vienna, Austria, October 2017. To appear