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Bottom-up construction of ontologies
Vet van der, P.E. and Mars, N.J.I. (1998) Bottom-up construction of ontologies. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 10 (4). pp. 513-526. ISSN 1041-4347
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| Abstract: | Presents a particular way of building ontologies that proceeds in a bottom-up fashion. Concepts are defined in a way that mirrors the way their instances are composed out of smaller objects. The smaller objects themselves may also be modeled as being composed. Bottom-up ontologies are flexible through the use of implicit and, hence, parsimonious part-whole and subconcept-superconcept relations. The bottom-up method complements current practice, where, as a rule, ontologies are built top-down. The design method is illustrated by an example involving ontologies of pure substances at several levels of detail. It is not claimed that bottom-up construction is a generally valid recipe; indeed, such recipes are deemed uninformative or impossible. Rather, the approach is intended to enrich the ontology developer's toolkit |
| Item Type: | Article |
| Copyright: | © 1998 IEEE |
| Faculty: | Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS) |
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| Link to this item: | http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/18135 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/69.706054 |
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