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The social dynamics of ontological commitment
Submitted by Weaver Silken on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 11:33
On the Social Dynamics of Ontological Commitment
Christophe Debruyne (STARlab, VUB), Robert Meersman
Abstract:
Ontologies are formal, shared, and computer-stored (approximate) de-scriptions of a universe of discourse. They are key in the realization of semantic interoperability between autonomously developed information systems and the Semantic Web. The problem is not so much what ontologies in computer science are, but how ontologies come to be. An ontology is the result of a series of interaction leading to agreements to a better approximation of a communities perceived reality, often for a specific goal. Methods and tools are thus needed to support those communities in ontology construction. As those interactions happen in natural language, the resulting ontology should be grounded in that same language as well. We present the DOGMA framework for ontology engineering and GOSPL, a collaborative ontology engineering methodology built ontop of DOGMA. DOGMA is a framework in which the basic element is a binary-fact, grounded in natural language with the communities own terminology. GOSPL captures the social interactions and the natural language definitions of concepts to drive the ontology engineering.
References:
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444–459. Springer, 2011.
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Slides of the talk:
http://ecco.vub.ac.be/sites/all/files/2012-06-01-ECCO-SEMINAR.pptx-small.pdf
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