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Dimensions Affecting Representation Styles in Ontologies

verfasst von : Pablo Rubén Fillottrani, C. Maria Keet

Erschienen in: Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Web

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

There are different ways to formalise roughly the same knowledge, which negatively affects ontology reuse and alignment and other tasks such as formalising competency questions automatically. We aim to shed light on, and make more precise, the intuitive notion of such ‘representation styles’ through characterising their inherent features and the dimensions by which a style may differ. This has led to a total of 28 different traits that are partitioned over 10 dimensions. The operationalisability was assessed through an evaluation of 30 ontologies on those dimensions and applicable values. It showed that it is feasible to use the dimensions and values and resulting in three easily recognisable types of ontologies. Most ontologies had clearly one or the other trait, whereas some were inherently mixed due to inclusion of different and conflicting design decisions.

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Fußnoten
1
A cut-off at 3 layers is subjective, based mainly on the experience that a 2–3 layer mini-hierarchy is easy to declare, whereas 4 or more requires some thought to put it right, and conceptual models typically do not have more than 2–3 layers, if there is a hierarchy at all.
 
3
There are arguments from Ontology for option 1 and 2 vs option 3, but the intended choice here the corresponding commitment built into the language.
 
4
The intended choice here is also the commitment built into the language, not theory (option 3) versus applied (options 1 and 2).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Dimensions Affecting Representation Styles in Ontologies
verfasst von
Pablo Rubén Fillottrani
C. Maria Keet
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21395-4_14

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