Ontology for People - Vagueness and multiplicity -

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  • Hideaki Takeda
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In this paper, I argued ambiguity of representing concepts. Ontologists in computer science, especially in Semantic Web dismissed the importance of variety of conceptualization. But richness of our conceptualization is crucial for representing ontology and can contribute various use of ontology in computer systems. In particular I picked up multiplicity of ontology in this paper. I show two types of treatment of multiplicity in ontology. One is representation of multiple and shared ontologies by combining fragments of ontologies. The other is representation of multiplicity of concept. Variety of concept representation by people are aggregated and represented as a virtual concept.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008