A More General Ontology Model with Object Membership and Typicality

  • Yi Cai
  • Ching-man Au Yeung
  • Ho-fung Leung
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Abstract

In this chapter, we analyze the disadvantages of our first model introduced in the Chapter 5. To overcome the limitations of previous models of ontology, in this chapter, we further extent our first model and propose a better formal cognitive model of ontology. The model extends current ontologies to reflect the object membership and typicality in all kinds of concepts including conjunctive (conjunction) concepts, disjunctive (disjunction) concepts and combination concepts. It can outperform previous models and our first model, and make the object membership, typicality and concept representation be modeled more accurately and appropriately.

Keywords

Characteristic Vector Membership Degree Property Vector Fuzzy Concept Combination Concept 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yi Cai
    • 1
  • Ching-man Au Yeung
    • 2
  • Ho-fung Leung
    • 3
  1. 1.School of Software EngineeringSouth China University of TechnologyGuangzhouChina
  2. 2.Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research InstituteHong KongChina
  3. 3.Department of Computer Science and EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong KongHong KongChina

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