Understanding the Semantic Web through Descriptions and Situations (2003)
| Venue: | Proceedings of ODBASE03 Conference |
| Citations: | 97 - 15 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gangemi03understandingthe,
author = {Aldo Gangemi and Peter Mika},
title = {Understanding the Semantic Web through Descriptions and Situations},
booktitle = {Proceedings of ODBASE03 Conference},
year = {2003},
pages = {689--706},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract. The Semantic Web is a powerful vision that is getting to grips with the challenge of providing more human-oriented web services. Hence, reasoning with and across distributed, partially implicit assumptions (contextual knowledge), is a milestone. Ontologies are a primary means to deploy the Semantic Web vision, but few work has been done on them to manage the context-dependency of Web knowledge. In this paper we introduce an ontology for representing a variety of reified contexts and states of affairs, called D&S, currently implemented as a plug-in to the DOLCE foundational ontology, and its application to two cases: an ontology for communication situations and roles, and an ontology for peer-to-peer communication. The reified contexts represented in D&S have a rich structure, and are a middleware between full-fledged formal contexts and theories, and the often poor vocabularies implemented in Web ontologies... 1
