TY - GEN
T1 - A Metaontology for Annotating Ontology Entities with Vagueness Descriptions
AU - Alexopoulos, Panos
AU - Peroni, Silvio
AU - Villazón-Terrazas, Boris
AU - Pan, Jeff Z.
AU - Gómez-Pérez, José Manuel
N1 - The research has been funded from the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) of the European Union’s 7th Framework Programme P7/2007-2013 under REA grant agreement no 286348. We also want to thank all the people who helped us with the evaluation of Vagueness Ontology.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The emergence in the last years of initiatives like the Linked Open Data (LOD) has led to a significant increase in the amount of structured semantic data on the Web. Central role to this development has been played by ontologies, as these enable the representation of real world domains in an explicit and formal way and, thus, the production of commonly understood and shareable semantic data. Nevertheless, the share-ability and wider reuse of such data can be hampered by the existence of vagueness within it, as this makes the data's meaning less explicit. With that in mind, in this paper we present and evaluate the Vagueness Ontology, a metaontology that enables the explicit identification and description of vague entities and their vagueness-related characteristics in ontologies. The rationale is that such descriptions, when accompanying vague ontologies, may narrow the possible interpretations that the latter's vague elements may assume by its users.
AB - The emergence in the last years of initiatives like the Linked Open Data (LOD) has led to a significant increase in the amount of structured semantic data on the Web. Central role to this development has been played by ontologies, as these enable the representation of real world domains in an explicit and formal way and, thus, the production of commonly understood and shareable semantic data. Nevertheless, the share-ability and wider reuse of such data can be hampered by the existence of vagueness within it, as this makes the data's meaning less explicit. With that in mind, in this paper we present and evaluate the Vagueness Ontology, a metaontology that enables the explicit identification and description of vague entities and their vagueness-related characteristics in ontologies. The rationale is that such descriptions, when accompanying vague ontologies, may narrow the possible interpretations that the latter's vague elements may assume by its users.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-13413-0_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-13413-0_6
M3 - Published conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84916229846
SN - 9783319134123
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 100
EP - 121
BT - Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web III
A2 - Bobillo, Fernando
A2 - Carvalho, Rommel N.
A2 - Costa, Paulo C.G.
A2 - d'Amato, Claudia
A2 - Fanizzi, Nicola
A2 - Laskey, Kathryn B.
A2 - Laskey, Kenneth J.
A2 - Lukasiewicz, Thomas
A2 - Nickles, Matthias
A2 - Pool, Michael
PB - Springer International Publishing
CY - Switzerland
T2 - International Semantic Web Conferences, ISWC in 2011, 2012, and 2013
Y2 - 21 October 2013 through 25 October 2013
ER -