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Formal Ontology and Information Systems (1998)
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Guarino98formalontology,
author = {Nicola Guarino},
title = {Formal Ontology and Information Systems},
booktitle = {},
year = {1998},
pages = {3--15},
publisher = {IOS Press}
}
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Abstract
Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science community, and its importance is being recognized in a multiplicity of research fields and application areas, including knowledge engineering, database design and integration, information retrieval and extraction. We shall use the generic term information systems, in its broadest sense, to collectively refer to these application perspectives. We argue in this paper that so-called ontologies present their own methodological and architectural peculiarities: on the methodological side, their main peculiarity is the adoption of a highly interdisciplinary approach, while on the architectural side the most interesting aspect is the centrality of the role they can play in an information system, leading to the perspective of ontology-driven information systems.
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information system formal ontology knowledge engineering research field database design architectural side interesting aspect architectural peculiarity information retrieval computer science community application area main peculiarity so-called ontology ontology-driven information system generic term information system interdisciplinary approach methodological side application perspective
