Contextualizing ontologies

Contextualizing ontologies

Ontologies are shared models of a domain that encode a view which is common to a set of different parties. Contexts are local models that encode a party’s subjective view of a domain. In this paper we show how ontologies can be contextualized, thus acquiring certain useful properties that a pure shared approach cannot provide. We say that an ontology is contextualized or, also, that it is a con...

C-OWL: Contextualizing Ontologies

Ontologies are shared models of a domain that encode a view which is common to a set of different parties. Contexts are local models that encode a party’s subjective view of a domain. In this paper we show how ontologies can be contextualized, thus acquiring certain useful properties that a pure shared approach cannot provide. We say that an ontology is contextualized or, also, that it is a con...

C-OWL: Contextualizing ontologies

Contextualizing Ontologies with OntoLight: A Pragmatic Approach

We present a pragmatic approach to using large-scale ontologies as contexts. The approach is based on a light-weight ontology model and grounding of the ontology concepts in textual documents. These assumptions allow for efficient implementation of the basic operations (classification, population and mappings between ontologies), and, as a consequence, exploitation of several large-scale ontolo...

Explaining for Contextualizing and Contextualizing for Explaining

This paper proposes a view on the relationships between explanation and context. First, we install the background of our proposal. This background comprises two parts: the consideration of explanations in knowledge-based systems, and a preliminary observation of relationships between explanations and context. We comment briefly previous works on explanations in order to point out what is reusab...