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Ontologies serve as a one of the formal means to represent and model knowledge in computer science, electrical engineering, system engineering and other related disciplines. Ontologies within requirements engineering may be used for formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hrvoje Belani , Petar Solic , Toni Perkovic

We explore how computational ontologies can be impactful vis-a-vis the developing discipline of "data science." We posit an approach wherein management theories are represented as formal axioms, and then applied to draw inferences about…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Henry M. Kim , Jackie Ho Nam Cheung , Marek Laskowski , Iryna Gel

We consider the problem of finding plausible knowledge that is missing from a given ontology, as a generalisation of the well-studied taxonomy expansion task. One line of work treats this task as a Natural Language Inference (NLI) problem,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Na Li , Thomas Bailleux , Zied Bouraoui , Steven Schockaert

Ontology alignment (a.k.a ontology matching (OM)) plays a critical role in knowledge integration. Owing to the success of machine learning in many domains, it has been applied in OM. However, the existing methods, which often adopt ad-hoc…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yuan He , Jiaoyan Chen , Denvar Antonyrajah , Ian Horrocks

Ontology embeddings map classes, roles, and individuals in ontologies into $\mathbb{R}^n$, and within $\mathbb{R}^n$ similarity between entities can be computed or new axioms inferred. For ontologies in the Description Logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Olga Mashkova , Fernando Zhapa-Camacho , Robert Hoehndorf

In this paper, we discuss the utility and deficiencies of existing ontology resources for a number of language processing applications. We describe a technique for increasing the semantic type coverage of a specific ontology, the National…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. Pustejovsky , A. Rumshisky , J. Castano

Background. Endowing intelligent systems with semantic data commonly requires designing and instantiating ontologies with domain-specific knowledge. Especially in the early phases, those activities are typically performed manually by human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Giovanni Ciatto , Andrea Agiollo , Matteo Magnini , Andrea Omicini

Logical and probabilistic reasoning tasks that require a deeper knowledge of semantics are increasingly relying on general purpose ontologies such as Wikidata and DBpedia. However, tasks such as entity disambiguation and linking may benefit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rosario Uceda-Sosa , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Atul Kumar , Sahil Bansal , Seema Nagar

Use case specifications have successfully been used for requirements description. They allow joining, in the same modeling space, the expectations of the stakeholders as well as the needs of the software engineer and analyst involved in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Rui Couto , António Nestor Ribeiro , José Creissac Campos

In conceptual modeling (CM) as a subdiscipline of software engineering, current proposed ontologies (categorical analysis of entities) are typically established through whole adoption of philosophical theories (e.g. Bunge s). In this paper,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

The incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models into various optimization systems is on the rise. Yet, addressing complex urban and environmental management problems normally requires in-depth domain science and informatics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jose Tupayachi , Haowen Xu , Olufemi A. Omitaomu , Mustafa Can Camur , Aliza Sharmin , Xueping Li

Ontologies are a popular way of representing domain knowledge, in particular, knowledge in domains related to life sciences. (Semi-)automating the process of building an ontology has attracted researchers from different communities into a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Ana Ozaki

Ontologies play a critical role in Semantic Web technologies by providing a structured and standardized way to represent knowledge and enabling machines to understand the meaning of data. Several taxonomies and ontologies have been…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mahender Kumar , Ruby Rani , Mirko Botarelli , Gregory Epiophaniou , Carsten Maple

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

Constructing comprehensive knowledge graphs requires the use of multiple ontologies in order to fully contextualize data into a domain. Ontology matching finds equivalences between concepts interconnecting ontologies and creating a cohesive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Marta Contreiras Silva , Daniel Faria , Catia Pesquita

Ontologies can be a powerful tool for structuring knowledge, and they are currently the subject of extensive research. Updating the contents of an ontology or improving its interoperability with other ontologies is an important but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Paolo Pareti , Ewan Klein

An ontology makes a special vocabulary which describes the domain of interest and the meaning of the term on that vocabulary. Based on the precision of the specification, the concept of the ontology contains several data and conceptual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Maryam Alizadeh , Maliheh Heydarpour Shahrezaei , Farajollah Tahernezhad-Javazm

The trajectory patterns of a moving object in a spatio-temporal domain offers varied information in terms of the management of the data generated from the movement. A trajectory data warehouse is a data repository for the data and…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Michael Mireku Kwakye

Automating ontology construction and curation is an important but challenging task in knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence. Prediction by machine learning techniques such as contextual semantic embedding is a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jiaoyan Chen , Yuan He , Yuxia Geng , Ernesto Jimenez-Ruiz , Hang Dong , Ian Horrocks

Ontologies are considered as the backbone of the Semantic Web. With the rising success of the Semantic Web, the number of participating communities from different countries is constantly increasing. The growing number of ontologies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Haytham Al-Feel , Ralph Schafermeier , Adrian Paschke