Social ontology: Butler via Arendt via Loidolt

Ontology reuse via ontology modularisation

The realisation of the Semantic Web depends on a number of factors, one of which is the ability to reuse ontologies [10]. Ontology construction is deemed to be a time consuming and labour intensive task. Therefore it heavily relies on the possibility of reusing existing ontologies. Nonetheless, ontologies and ontology libraries, for instance the DAML ontology library are becoming available, tog...

Ontology Via Terminology?

The Encyclopaedia Britannica’s (EB) definition of ontology as “the theory or study of being as such; i.e., of the basic characteristics of all reality” has been overtaken in recent years by the use of “ontology” to describe the representation of information such that it can be reasoned over, which some consider to be “knowledge”. Sowa’s view of ontology as “the study of the categories of things...

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Ontology Correspondence via Theory Interpretation

We report on ongoing work to apply techniques of automated theory morphism search in first-order logic to ontology matching and alignment problems. Such techniques are able to discover ‘structural similarities’ across different ontologies by providing theory interpretations of one ontology into another. We sketch the techniques currently available for automating the task of finding theory inter...

Ontology Engineering via Text Understanding

We introduce a methodology for automating the maintenance of domain-specific ontologies based on natural language text understanding. A given taxonomy is incrementally updated as new concepts are acquired from real-world texts. The acquisition process is centered around the linguistic and conceptual “quality” of various forms of evidence underlying the generation and refinement of concept hypot...