Ontology Unification Task
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An Ontology Unification Task is an ontology alignment task of the concepts and relations in ontologies for mapping to inference in one ontology to another.
- Example(s)
- an Ontology Refinement Task of ontologies in both directions.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Knowledge Database, Ontology, Domain of Discourse, Taxonomy, Semantic Web.
References
2007
- (Obitko, 2007) ⇒ (2007) http://www.obitko.com/tutorials/ontologies-semantic-web/operations-on-ontologies.html Translations Between Ontologies in Multi-agent Systems - Ontology Operations].” PhD Thesis, Czech Technical University
- It is possible that one application uses multiple ontologies, especially when using modular design of ontologies or when we need to integrate with systems that use other ontologies. In this case, some operations on ontologies may be needed in order to work with all of them. We will summarize some of these operations. The terminology in this areas is still not stable and different authors may use these terms in a bit shifted meaning, and so the terms may overlap, however, all of these operations are important for maintenance and integration of ontologies.
- Merge of ontologies (...)
- Mapping (...)
- Alignment (...)
- Unification is aligning all of the concepts and relations in ontologies so that inference in one ontology can be mapped to inference in other ontology and vice versa. Unification is usually made as refinement of ontologies in both directions.
- It is possible that one application uses multiple ontologies, especially when using modular design of ontologies or when we need to integrate with systems that use other ontologies. In this case, some operations on ontologies may be needed in order to work with all of them. We will summarize some of these operations. The terminology in this areas is still not stable and different authors may use these terms in a bit shifted meaning, and so the terms may overlap, however, all of these operations are important for maintenance and integration of ontologies.