Ontology Refinement Task

An Ontology Refinement Task is an ontology mapping task that results in a partial ordering of ontologies.

• AKA: Ontology Refining Task.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Ontology Merging Task.
  • an Ontology Mapping Task.
  • an Ontology Unification Task.
  • an Ontology Integration Task.
  • an Ontology Inheritance Task.
• See: Knowledge Database, Ontology, Domain of Discourse, Taxonomy, Semantic Web.

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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 (...)
    • Refinement is mapping from ontology A to another ontology B so that every concept of ontology A has equivalent in ontology B, however primitive concepts from ontology A may correspond to non-primitive (defined) concepts of ontology B. Refinement defines partial ordering of ontologies.
    • Unification (...)

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