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Ontologies have become essential in today's digital age as a way of organising the vast amount of readily available unstructured text. In providing formal structure to this information, ontologies have immense value and application across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dekai Zhang , Simone Conia , Antonio Rago

Although Domain Adaptation in Semantic Scene Segmentation has shown impressive improvement in recent years, the fairness concerns in the domain adaptation have yet to be well defined and addressed. In addition, fairness is one of the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Thanh-Dat Truong , Ngan Le , Bhiksha Raj , Jackson Cothren , Khoa Luu

The representation of workflows and processes is essential in materials science engineering, where experimental and computational reproducibility depend on structured and semantically coherent process models. Although numerous ontologies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ebrahim Norouzi , Sven Hertling , Jörg Waitelonis , Harald Sack

We investigate the task of inserting new concepts extracted from texts into an ontology using language models. We explore an approach with three steps: edge search which is to find a set of candidate locations to insert (i.e., subsumptions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hang Dong , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuan He , Yongsheng Gao , Ian Horrocks

Artificial Intelligence aims to provide computer programs with commonsense knowledge to reason about our world. This paper offers a new practical approach towards automated commonsense reasoning with first-order logic (FOL) ontologies. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Javier Álvez , Paqui Lucio , German Rigau

We propose a heuristically modified FP-Tree for ontology learning from text. Unlike previous research, for concept extraction, we use a regular expression parser approach widely adopted in compiler construction, i.e., deterministic finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Safwan Shatnawi , Mohamed Medhat Gaber , Mihaela Cocea

We propose a methodology for extracting concepts for a target domain from large-scale linked open data (LOD) to support the construction of domain ontologies providing field-specific knowledge and definitions. The proposed method defines…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Satoshi Kume , Kouji Kozaki

Competency Questions (CQs) are a form of ontology functional requirements expressed as natural language questions. Inspecting CQs together with the axioms in an ontology provides critical insights into the intended scope and applicability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Reham Alharbi , Valentina Tamma , Floriana Grasso , Terry Payne

Formal ontologies are axiomatizations in a logic-based formalism. The development of formal ontologies, and their important role in the Semantic Web area, is generating considerable research on the use of automated reasoning techniques and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Javier Álvez , Montserrat Hermo , Paqui Lucio , German Rigau

The present preprint specifies and defines all Terms, Properties, Relationships and Axioms of TestTDO (software Testing Top-Domain Ontology) v1.3, which is a slightly updated version of its predecessor, TestTDO v1.2. TestTDO is a top-domain…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Guido Tebes , Denis Peppino , Pablo Becker , Luis Olsina

A key challenge for Industry 4.0 applications is to develop control systems for automated manufacturing services that are capable of addressing both data integration and semantic interoperability issues, as well as monitoring and decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Massimo Carraturo , Andrea Mazzullo

Engineering knowledge-based (or expert) systems require extensive manual effort and domain knowledge. As Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained using an enormous amount of cross-domain knowledge, it becomes possible to automate such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yun Tang , Antonio A. Bruto da Costa , Jason Zhang , Irvine Patrick , Siddartha Khastgir , Paul Jennings

Manual ontology construction takes time, resources, and domain specialists. Supporting a component of this process for automation or semi-automation would be good. This project and dissertation provide a Formal Concept Analysis and WordNet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bryar A. Hassan

Distributed optimization is fundamental to modern machine learning applications like federated learning, but existing methods often struggle with ill-conditioned problems and face stability-versus-speed tradeoffs. We introduce fractional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Andrei Lixandru , Marcel van Gerven , Sergio Pequito

Competency Questions (CQs) are pivotal in knowledge engineering, guiding the design, validation, and testing of ontologies. A number of diverse formulation approaches have been proposed in the literature, ranging from completely manual to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Reham Alharbi , Valentina Tamma , Terry R. Payne , Jacopo de Berardinis

Software requirements specification is undoubtedly critical for the whole software life-cycle. Nowadays, writing software requirements specifications primarily depends on human work. Although massive studies have been proposed to fasten the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ziyan Zhao , Li Zhang , Xiaoyun Gao , Xiaoli Lian , Heyang Lv , Lin Shi

Knowledge base is the way to store structured and unstructured data throughout the web. Since the size of the web is increasing rapidly, there are huge needs to structure the knowledge in a fully automated way. However fully-automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Sundong Kim

Methods for the automatic composition of services into executable workflows need detailed knowledge about the application domain,in particular about the available services and their behavior in terms of input/output data descriptions. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Anna-Lena Lamprecht , Stefan Naujokat , Bernhard Steffen , Tiziana Margaria

The upcoming technology support for semantic web promises fresh directions for Software Engineering community. Also semantic web has its roots in knowledge engineering that provoke software engineers to look for application of ontology…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-07-17 Farheen Siddiqui , M. Afshar Alam

Ontology development methodologies emphasise knowledge gathering from domain experts and documentary resources, and knowledge representation using an ontology language such as OWL or FOL. However, working ontologists are often surprised by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Fabian Neuhaus , Janna Hastings