Multimodality is the construction of meaning through multiple modes of communication suited to the needs of different users. In this article we discuss the issue of multimodality in EcoLexicon, a multimodal Terminological Knowledge Base on the environment, and focus on the role of images in the representation of specialised knowledge (entities, events, properties and relations). Finally, we pro...

The uptake of Linked Data (LD) has promoted the proliferation of datasets and their associated ontologies for describing different domains. Particular LD development characteristics such as agility and web-based architecture necessitate the revision, adaption, and lightening of existing methodologies for ontology development. This thesis proposes a lightweight method for ontology development in...

This article presents a number of ways in which ontologies—schematic descriptions of the contents of domain knowledge—can be constructed and can be used to improve the knowledge engineering process. The main message is that early in the knowledge engineering process an application-specific ontology should be constructed . To facilitate this , the article presents some principles for organizing ...

This paper presents ongoing work on a multilingual (English, French, German) lexical resource of soccer language. The first part describes how lexicographic descriptions based on frame-semantic principles are derived from a partially aligned multilingual corpus of soccer match reports. The remainder of the paper then discusses how different types of ontological knowledge are linked to this reso...

The development of service science requires an appropriate theoretical foundation; S-D logic has been proposed as a candidate. Nevertheless, the application of the principles of S-D logic in service science suffers from inconsistencies and misunderstanding. In this paper we provide an ontological representation of S-D logic in order to clarify its key concepts and analyze their relationships. T...

We describe principles and design of a system for knowledge bases applying a natural logic. Natural logics are forms of logic which appear as stylized fragments of natural language sentences. Accordingly, such knowledge base sentences can be read and understood directly by a domain expert. The system applies a graph form computed from the input natural logic sentences. The graph form generalize...

Similarity, one of six Gestalt principles, is one of the most intuitive ways to perceive the world and categorise the objects surrounding us. The notion of similarity plays an important role in many areas, and it is important to simulate human perception of similarity in order to obtain satisfying results in various applications. We draw our inspiration from Tversky’s work on similarity and def...