“Reasonable” support to knowledge sharing through schema analysis and articulation
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Abstract
We propose a disciplined approach to domain schema sharing which enhances the role and the extent of semantic reasoning in the semi-automated support to knowledge sharing. We introduce a formal, class-centred, entity-relationship knowledge model based on a description logic (DL). In this way, we benefit from the specialised reasoning services available in DL-based inferential engines. This approach combines logic deductions with heuristic and linguistic inferences to propose a semantic articulation of overlapping components in conceptual schemas. This approach to knowledge sharing has been implemented as a support functionality in our intelligent knowledge management environment EER-ConcepTool.
Keywords
Ontologies Sharing Reuse Articulation Automated ReasoningNotes
Acknowledgements
This work is supported by the British Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under grant GR/R10127/01 (Developing an Intelligent Management Environment for Reasoning about Conceptual Domain Knowledge) and under the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) grant GR/N15764.
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