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Due to the emergence of the semantic Web and the increasing need to formalize human knowledge, ontologie engineering is now an important activity. But is this activity very different from other ones like software engineering, for example ?…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-04-18 Mireille Arnoux , Thierry Despeyroux

Human knowledge is made up of the conceptual structures of many communities of interest. In order to establish coherence in human knowledge representation, it is important to enable communication between the conceptual structures of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Robert E. Kent

Ontologies have been widely used in numerous and varied applications, e.g., to support data modeling, information integration, and knowledge management. With the increasing size of ontologies, ontology understanding, which is playing an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Seyedamin Pouriyeh , Mehdi Allahyari , Qingxia Liu , Gong Cheng , Hamid Reza Arabnia , Yuzhong Qu , Krys Kochut

This paper discusses the different roles that explicit knowledge, in particular ontologies, can play in Explainable AI and in the development of human-centric explainable systems and intelligible explanations. We consider three main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Roberto Confalonieri , Giancarlo Guizzardi

In semantic technologies, the shared common understanding of the structure of information among artifacts (people or software agents) can be realized by building an ontology. To do this, it is imperative for an ontology builder to answer…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Thabet Slimani

Understanding large, structured documents like scholarly articles, requests for proposals or business reports is a complex and difficult task. It involves discovering a document's overall purpose and subject(s), understanding the function…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman , Tim Finin

We present a model of NLP in which ontology and context are directly included in a grammar. The model is based on the concept of {\em construction}, consisting of a set of features of form, a set of semantic and pragmatic conditions…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Wlodek Zadrozny

Our work presented in this paper focuses on the translation of terminological expressions represented in semantically structured resources, like ontologies or knowledge graphs. The challenge of translating ontology labels or terminological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Mihael Arcan , Daniel Torregrosa , Paul Buitelaar

Traditional information retrieval systems represent documents and queries by keyword sets. However, the content of a document or a query is mainly defined by both keywords and named entities occurring in it. Named entities have ontological…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Vuong M. Ngo , Tru H. Cao

In this paper, we introduce a novel interpreting framework that learns an interpretable model based on an ontology-based sampling technique to explain agnostic prediction models. Different from existing approaches, our algorithm considers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Han Hu , Anuja Badeti , David Newman , Dejing Dou

Ontology alignment is the task of identifying semantically equivalent entities from two given ontologies. Different ontologies have different representations of the same entity, resulting in a need to de-duplicate entities when merging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Lucy Lu Wang , Chandra Bhagavatula , Mark Neumann , Kyle Lo , Chris Wilhelm , Waleed Ammar

Ontology matching is the process of automatically determining the semantic equivalences between the concepts of two ontologies. Most ontology matching algorithms are based on two types of strategies: terminology-based strategies, which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Shangpu Jiang , Daniel Lowd , Dejing Dou

Developing and organizing new knowledge is a core activity for scholars. Recently, ontologies have been introduced as an approach for organizing knowledge. However, most ontologies do not readily support the development and organization of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Robert B. Allen

Ontologies provide formal representation of knowledge shared within Semantic Web applications. Ontology learning involves the construction of ontologies from a given corpus. In the past years, ontology learning has traversed through shallow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Rick Du , Huilong An , Keyu Wang , Weidong Liu

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-17 David Carral , Pascal Hitzler , Hilmar Lapp , Sebastian Rudolph

Ontologies form the basic interest in various computer science disciplines such as semantic web, information retrieval, database design, etc. They aim at providing a formal, explicit and shared conceptualization and understanding of common…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-04 M. Maree , M. Belkhatir

We propose a framework grounded in Logic Programming for representing and reasoning about business processes from both the procedural and ontological point of views. In particular, our goal is threefold: (1) define a logical language and a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Fabrizio Smith , Maurizio Proietti

In this research paper we are briefly presenting current major web problems and introducing semantic web technologies with the claim of solving existing web's problems. Furthermore we are describing Ontology as the main building block of…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-08-10 Zeeshan Ahmed , Detlef Gerhard

This Ontologies are widely used as a means for solving the information heterogeneity problems on the web because of their capability to provide explicit meaning to the information. They become an efficient tool for knowledge representation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Nora Y. Ibrahim , Sahar A. Mokhtar , Hany M. Harb

OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontologies which are able to formally represent complex knowledge and support semantic reasoning have been widely adopted across various domains such as healthcare and bioinformatics. Recently, ontology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hui Yang , Jiaoyan Chen , Yuan He , Yongsheng Gao , Ian Horrocks