Download or read book Ontology Management written by Martin Hepp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology Managememt provides an up-to-date, scientifically correct, concise and easy-to-read reference on this topic. The book includes relevant tasks, practical and theoretical challenges, limitations and methodologies, plus available tooling support. The editors discuss integrating the conceptual and technical dimensions with a business view on using ontologies, stressing the cost dimension of ontology engineering and offering guidance on how to derive ontologies semi-automatically from existing standards and specifications.

Download or read book Ontology Learning and Population from Text written by Philipp Cimiano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, ontologies have received much attention within computer science and related disciplines, most often as the semantic web. Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications discusses ontologies for the semantic web, as well as knowledge management, information retrieval, text clustering and classification, as well as natural language processing. Ontology Learning and Population from Text: Algorithms, Evaluation and Applications is structured for research scientists and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable for graduate-level students in computer science.

Download or read book Ontology Matching written by Jérôme Euzenat and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontologies are viewed as the silver bullet for many applications, but in open or evolving systems, different parties can adopt different ontologies. This increases heterogeneity problems rather than reducing heterogeneity. This book proposes ontology matching as a solution to the problem of semantic heterogeneity, offering researchers and practitioners a uniform framework of reference to currently available work. The techniques presented apply to database schema matching, catalog integration, XML schema matching and more.

Download or read book Ontology Engineering in a Networked World written by Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semantic Web is characterized by the existence of a very large number of distributed semantic resources, which together define a network of ontologies. These ontologies in turn are interlinked through a variety of different meta-relationships such as versioning, inclusion, and many more. This scenario is radically different from the relatively narrow contexts in which ontologies have been traditionally developed and applied, and thus calls for new methods and tools to effectively support the development of novel network-oriented semantic applications. This book by Suárez-Figueroa et al. provides the necessary methodological and technological support for the development and use of ontology networks, which ontology developers need in this distributed environment. After an introduction, in its second part the authors describe the NeOn Methodology framework. The book’s third part details the key activities relevant to the ontology engineering life cycle. For each activity, a general introduction, methodological guidelines, and practical examples are provided. The fourth part then presents a detailed overview of the NeOn Toolkit and its plug-ins. Lastly, case studies from the pharmaceutical and the fishery domain round out the work. The book primarily addresses two main audiences: students (and their lecturers) who need a textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses on ontology engineering, and practitioners who need to develop ontologies in particular or Semantic Web-based applications in general. Its educational value is maximized by its structured approach to explaining guidelines and combining them with case studies and numerous examples. The description of the open source NeOn Toolkit provides an additional asset, as it allows readers to easily evaluate and apply the ideas presented.

Download or read book Theory and Applications of Ontology Philosophical Perspectives written by Roberto Poli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-28 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontology was once understood to be the philosophical inquiry into the structure of reality: the analysis and categorization of ‘what there is’. Recently, however, a field called ‘ontology’ has become part of the rapidly growing research industry in information technology. The two fields have more in common than just their name. Theory and Applications of Ontology is a two-volume anthology that aims to further an informed discussion about the relationship between ontology in philosophy and ontology in information technology. It fills an important lacuna in cutting-edge research on ontology in both fields, supplying stage-setting overview articles on history and method, presenting directions of current research in either field, and highlighting areas of productive interdisciplinary contact. Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives presents ontology in philosophy in ways that computer scientists are not likely to find elsewhere. The volume offers an overview of current research traditions in ontology, contrasting analytical, phenomenological, and hermeneutic approaches. It introduces the reader to current philosophical research on those categories of everyday and scientific reasoning that are most relevant to present and future research in information technology.

Download or read book Knowledge Seeker Ontology Modelling for Information Search and Management written by Edward H. Y. Lim and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knowledge Seeker is a useful system to develop various intelligent applications such as ontology-based search engine, ontology-based text classification system, ontological agent system, and semantic web system etc. The Knowledge Seeker contains four different ontological components. First, it defines the knowledge representation model ¡V Ontology Graph. Second, an ontology learning process that based on chi-square statistics is proposed for automatic learning an Ontology Graph from texts for different domains. Third, it defines an ontology generation method that transforms the learning outcome to the Ontology Graph format for machine processing and also can be visualized for human validation. Fourth, it defines different ontological operations (such as similarity measurement and text classification) that can be carried out with the use of generated Ontology Graphs. The final goal of the KnowledgeSeeker system framework is that it can improve the traditional information system with higher efficiency. In particular, it can increase the accuracy of a text classification system, and also enhance the search intelligence in a search engine. This can be done by enhancing the system with machine processable ontology.

Download or read book Concepts Ontologies and Knowledge Representation written by Grega Jakus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-22 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording knowledge in a common framework that would make it possible to seamlessly share global knowledge remains an important challenge for researchers. This brief examines several ideas about the representation of knowledge addressing this challenge. A widespread general agreement is followed that states uniform knowledge representation should be achievable by using ontologies populated with concepts. A separate chapter is dedicated to each of the three introduced topics, following a uniform outline: definition, organization, and use. This brief is intended for those who want to get to know the field of knowledge representation quickly, or would like to be up to date with current developments in the field. It is also useful for those dealing with implementation as examples of numerous operational systems are also given.

Download or read book Ontology Alignment written by Marc Ehrig and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-12-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces novel methods and approaches for semantic integration. In addition to developing ground-breaking new methods for ontology alignment, the author provides extensive explanations of up-to-date case studies. It includes a thorough investigation of the foundations and provides pointers to future steps in ontology alignment with conclusion linking this work to the knowledge society.

Download or read book Modular Ontologies written by Heiner Stuckenschmidt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-17 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a collection of research achievements mature enough to provide a firm and reliable basis on modular ontologies. It discusses the recent concepts, theories and techniques for knowledge modularization.

Download or read book Perspectives on Ontology Learning written by J. Lehmann and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Ontology Learning brings together researchers and practitioners from different communities − natural language processing, machine learning, and the semantic web − in order to give an interdisciplinary overview of recent advances in ontology learning. Starting with a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical foundations of ontology learning methods, the edited volume presents the state-of-the-start in automated knowledge acquisition and maintenance. It outlines future challenges in this area with a special focus on technologies suitable for pushing the boundaries beyond the creation of simple taxonomical structures, as well as on problems specifically related to knowledge modeling and representation using the Web Ontology Language. Perspectives on Ontology Learning is designed for researchers in the field of semantic technologies and developers of knowledge-based applications. It covers various aspects of ontology learning including ontology quality, user interaction, scalability, knowledge acquisition from heterogeneous sources, as well as the integration with ontology engineering methodologies.

Download or read book Ontological Engineering written by Asunción Gómez-Pérez and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontological Engineering refers to the set of activities that concern the ontology development process, the ontology life cycle, the methods and methodologies for building ontologies, and the tool suites and languages that support them. During the last decade, increasing attention has been focused on ontologies and Ontological Engineering. Ontologies are now widely used in Knowledge Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science; in applications related to knowledge management, natural language processing, e-commerce, intelligent integration information, information retrieval, integration of databases, b- informatics, and education; and in new emerging fields like the Semantic Web. Primary goals of this book are to acquaint students, researchers and developers of information systems with the basic concepts and major issues of Ontological Engineering, as well as to make ontologies more understandable to those computer science engineers that integrate ontologies into their information systems. We have paid special attention to the influence that ontologies have on the Semantic Web. Pointers to the Semantic Web appear in all the chapters, but specially in the chapter on ontology languages and tools.

Download or read book Construction d ontologies partir de textes written by Henry Valery Teguiak and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis son émergence au début des années 1990, la notion d'ontologie s'est rapidement diffusée dans un grand nombre de domaines de recherche. Compte tenu du caractère prometteur de cette notion, de nombreux travaux portent sur l'utilisation des ontologies dans des domaines aussi divers que la recherche d'information, le commerce électronique, le web sémantique, l'intégration de données, etc. L'efficacité de tous ces travaux présuppose l'existence d'une ontologie de domaine susceptible d'être utilisée. Or, la conception d'une telle ontologie s'avère particulièrement difficile si l'on souhaite qu'elle fasse l'objet de consensus. S'il existe des outils utilisés pour éditer une ontologie supposée déjà conçue, et s'il existe également plusieurs plate-formes de traitement automatique de la langue permettant d'analyser automatiquement les corpus et de les annoter tant du point de vue syntaxique que statistique, il est difficile de trouver une procédure globalement acceptée, ni a fortiori un ensemble d'outils supports permettant de concevoir une ontologie de domaine de façon progressive, explicite et traçable à partir d'un ensemble de ressources informationnelles relevant de ce domaine. L'objectif du projet ANR DaFOE4App (Differential and Formal Ontologies Editor for Application), dans lequel s'inscrit notre travail, était de favoriser l'émergence d'un tel ensemble d'outils. Contrairement à d'autres outils de construction d'ontologies, la plate-forme DaFOE, présentée dans cette thèse, ne propose pas un processus de construction figé ni en nombre d'étapes, ni sur la représentation des étapes. En effet, dans cette thèse nous généralisons le processus de construction d'ontologies pour un nombre quelconque d'étapes. L'intérêt d'une telle généralisation étant, par exemple, d'offrir la possibilité de raffiner le processus de construction en insérant ou modifiant des étapes. On peut également souhaiter supprimer certaines étapes à fin de simplifier le processus de construction. L'objectif de cette généralisation est de minimiser l'impact de l'ajout, suppression ou modification d'une étape dans le processus global de construction d'ontologies, tout en préservant la cohérence globale du processus de construction. Pour y parvenir, notre approche consiste à utiliser l'Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles pour caractériser chaque étape au sein d'un modèle et ensuite ramener le problème du passage d'une étape à l'autre à un problème de mapping de modèles. Les mappings établis entre les modèles sont ensuite utilisés pour semi-automatiser le processus de construction d'ontologies. Ce processus de construction se faisant dans un contexte persistant de base de données, nous proposons dans cette thèse, d'une part, pour les bases de données dites à base de modèles (BDBM) du fait qu'elles permettent de stocker à la fois les données et les modèles décrivant ces données, une extension pour la prise en compte des mappings, et, d'autre part, nous proposons le langage de requête MQL (Mapping Query Language) qui, en masquant la complexité de l'architecture de la BDBM facilite son exploitation. L'originalité du langage MQL se trouve dans sa capacité, au travers de requêtes syntaxiquement compactes, à explorer transitivement tout ou partie du graphe de mappings lors d'une recherche d'informations.

Download or read book Handbook on Ontologies written by Steffen Staab and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current status and future prospects of the field, which has developed significantly in the five years since the first edition. Revisions here include 21 completely new chapters.

Download or read book Ontologies written by Dieter Fensel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition systematically introduces the notion of ontologies to the non-expert reader and demonstrates in detail how to apply this conceptual framework for improved intranet retrieval of corporate information and knowledge and for enhanced Internet-based electronic commerce. He also describes ontology languages (XML, RDF, and OWL) and ontology tools, and the application of ontologies. In addition to structural improvements, the second edition covers recent developments relating to the Semantic Web, and emerging web-based standard languages.

Download or read book Indexation et recommandation d informations written by David Werner and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La gestion efficace de grandes quantités d’informations est devenue un défi de plus en plus importantpour les systèmes d’information. Tous les jours, de nouvelles sources d’informations émergent surle web. Un humain peut assez facilement retrouver ce qu’il cherche, lorsqu’il s’agit d’un article,d’une vidéo, d’un artiste précis. En revanche, il devient assez difficile, voire impossible, d’avoir unedémarche exploratoire pour découvrir de nouveaux contenus. Les systèmes de recommandationsont des outils logiciels ayant pour objectif d’assister l’humain afin de répondre au problème desurcharge d’informations. Les travaux présentés dans ce document proposent une architecturepour la recommandation efficace d’articles d’actualité. L’approche ontologique utilisée repose surun modèle permettant une qualification précise des items sur la base d’un vocabulaire contrôlé.Contenu dans une ontologie, ce vocabulaire constitue une modélisation formelle de la vue métier surle domaine traité. Réalisés en collaboration avec la société Actualis SARL, ces travaux ont permis lacommercialisation d’un nouveau produit hautement compétitif, FristECO Pro’fil.

Download or read book Fuzzy Computational Ontologies in Contexts written by Yi Cai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge Representation plays an essential role in Semantic Web, in particular in automated information processing and communications among software agents. This book, entitled "Fuzzy Computational Ontologies in Contexts: Formal Models of Knowledge Representation with Membership Degree and Typicality, and Their Applications", discusses knowledge representation in Semantic Web. It introduces the relevant background knowledge, models of fuzzy ontologies, importance and priority of properties in concepts, and object typicality in fuzzy ontologies and context-aware ontologies. The book is intended for graduate students, engineers, and researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and computer science. Yi Cai is an Assistant Professor in School of Software Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Ching-man Au Yeung is a Senior Engineer in Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, Hong Kong, China. Ho-fung Leung is a Professor and the Chairman of Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

Download or read book Ecosystems Knowledge written by Samuel Szoniecky and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To analyze complex situations we use everyday analogies that allow us to invest in an unknown domain knowledge we have acquired in a known field. In this work the author proposes a modeling and analysis method that uses the analogy of the ecosystem to embrace the complexity of an area of knowledge. After a history of the ecosystem concept and these derivatives (nature, ecology, environment ) from antiquity to the present, the analysis method based on the modeling of socio-semantic ontologies is presented, followed by practical examples of this approach in the areas of software development, digital humanities, Big Data, and more generally in the area of complex analysis.