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Applied Ontology - Volume 9, issue 1

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Price: EUR 130.00
ISSN 1570-5838 (P)
ISSN 1875-8533 (E)

Impact Factor 2024: 2.5

Applied Ontology focuses on information content in its broadest sense. As the subtitle makes clear, two broad kinds of content-based research activities are envisioned: ontological analysis and conceptual modeling. The former includes any attempt to investigate the nature and structure of a domain of interest using rigorous philosophical or logical tools; the latter concerns the cognitive and linguistic structures we use to model the world, as well as the various analysis tools and methodologies we adopt for producing useful computational models, such as information systems schemes or knowledge structures.

Applied Ontology is the first journal with explicit and exclusive focus on ontological analysis and conceptual modeling under an interdisciplinary view. It aims to establish a unique niche in the realm of scientific journals by carefully avoiding unnecessary duplication with discipline-oriented journals. For this reason, authors will be encouraged to use language that will be intelligible also to those outside their specific sector of expertise, and the review process will be tailored to this end. For example, authors of theoretical contributions will be encouraged to show the relevance of their theory for applications, while authors of more technological papers will be encouraged to show the relevance of a well-founded theoretical perspective. Moreover, the journal will publish papers focusing on representation languages or algorithms only where these address relevant content issues, whether at the level of practical application or of theoretical understanding. Similarly, it will publish descriptions of tools or implemented systems only where a contribution to the practice of ontological analysis and conceptual modeling is clearly established.

Applied Ontology aims at being a major publication forum for theoretical and applied research in a variety of topics, tentatively grouped together in research areas, examples of which are indicated in the list below.

Engineering ontologies for question answering

Authors: Teitsma, Marten | Sandberg, Jacobijn | Schreiber, Guus | Wielinga, Bob | van Hage, Willem Robert

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Using an ontology to automatically generate questions for ordinary people requires a structure and concepts compliant with human thought. Here we present methods to develop a pragmatic, expert-based and a basic-level ontology and a framework to evaluate these ontologies. Comparing these ontologies shows that expert-based ontologies are most easy to construct but lack required cognitive semantic characteristics. Basic-level ontologies have structure and concepts which are better in terms of cognitive semantics but are most expensive to construct.

Keywords: Basic-level ontology, automatic ontology generation, ontology metrics, prototype theory

DOI: 10.3233/AO-140130

Citation: Applied Ontology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-25, 2014

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An ontology co-design method for the co-creation of a continuous care ontology

Authors: Ongenae, Femke | Duysburgh, Pieter | Sulmon, Nicky | Verstraete, Mathijs | Bleumers, Lizzy | De Zutter, Saar | Verstichel, Stijn | Ackaert, Ann | Jacobs, An | De Turck, Filip

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Ontology engineering methodologies tend to emphasize the role of the knowledge engineer or require a very active role of domain experts. In this paper, a participatory ontology engineering method is described that holds the middle ground between these two ‘extremes’. After thorough ethnographic research, an interdisciplinary group of domain experts closely interacted with ontology engineers and social scientists in a series of workshops. Once a preliminary ontology was developed, a dynamic care request system was built using the ontology. Additional workshops were organized involving a broader group of domain experts to ensure the applicability of the ontology across continuous care … Show more

Keywords: Ontology engineering, co-design, continuous care, eHealth, participatory

DOI: 10.3233/AO-140131

Citation: Applied Ontology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 27-64, 2014

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Measuring concept similarity in ontologies using weighted concept paths

Authors: Rusu, Delia | Fortuna, Blaž | Mladenić, Dunja

Article Type: Research Article

Abstract: Semantic similarity and relatedness between concepts have been extensively studied in different areas ranging from psychology to computational linguistics. In this paper we address the problem of determining the similarity between concepts defined in a knowledge source such as an ontology. The focus is measuring similarity between concepts from the same ontology. We propose a concept similarity algorithm based on geometric models for representing concepts and relationships, which can be applied to different types of ontologies. The key idea is the concept weighting scheme which allows for quantifying the degree of abstractness of concepts. The evaluation settings involving two ontologies … Show more

Keywords: Semantic similarity and relatedness, weighted concept paths, ontologies

DOI: 10.3233/AO-140132

Citation: Applied Ontology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 65-95, 2014

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