A proper ontological treatment of intolerance--including hypersensitivity--to various substances is critical to patient care and research. However, existing methods and standards for documenting these conditions have flaws that inhibit these goals, especially translational research that bridges the two activities. In response, I outline a realist approach to the ontology of substance intoleranc...

Rokia Bendaoud, Amedeo Napoli, Yannick Toussaint. A Proposal for an Interactive Ontology Design Process based on Formal Concept Analysis. Carole Eschenbach and Michael Grüninger. 5th international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems FOIS 2008, Oct 2008, Saarbrücken, Germany. IOS Press, 183, pp.311-323, 2008, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications.

The integration of utterances in their contexts, by the help of reasoning about the concepts of the domain – organized in a formal ontology and laid down in Description Logics –, enables successful dialogue management for spoken language. We outline our dialogue model and our approach of establishing a formal ontology within the

This paper gives a contribution in the efforts of Semantic web ontology development. We have developed the core ontology for Specification and Description Language (SDL), an object-oriented, formal language defined by the International Telecommunications Union Telecommunications Standardization Sector (ITU-T) as recommendation Z.100. The language is intended for the specification of complex, ev...

It is widely recognized that ontologies can be used to support the semantic integration and interoperability of heterogeneous information systems. Resource Event Agent (REA) is a well-known business ontology that was proposed for ontology-driven enterprise system development. However, the current specification is neither sufficiently explicit nor formal, and thus difficult to operationalize for...

A common problem of ontologies is that their taxonomic structure is often poor and confusing. This is typically exemplified by the unrestrained use of subsumption to accomplish a variety of tasks. In this paper we show how a formal ontology of unary properties can help using the subsumption relation in a disciplined way. This formal ontology is based on some meta-properties built around the fun...

The term ‘formal ontology’ was first used by the philosopher Edmund Husserl in his Logical Investigations to signify the study of those formal structures and relations – above all relations of part and whole – which are exemplified in the subject-matters of the different material sciences. We follow Husserl in presenting the basic concepts of formal ontology as falling into three groups: the th...

The development and maintenance of domain-specific application ontologies require knowledge input from domain experts who are usually without any formal ontology or AI background. When dealing with large-scale ontologies, for example of the kind with which we are currently familiar in the biomedical spheres, quality assurance becomes important in minimizing modelling mistakes and the applicatio...