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On the Social Dynamics of Ontological Commitments

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 Workshops (OTM 2010)

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The aim of my thesis is to provide a solution in which any stakeholder of a particular community (with a specific goal) can contribute to the ontology construction process, making the contribution of the “unproductive” long tail of the community relevant. Members in a community will describe their view and maintain a dialogue in natural language. I believe that granting the community first-class-citizenship within ontological commitments by (i) mapping those natural language descriptions and dialogues to formal descriptions and decisions within the ontology engineering process and (ii) exploiting the existing application commitments to that ontology improves the quality of ontological commitments by truly representing the community and their latest requirements.

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  1. Semantics Technology and Application Research Lab (STARLab), Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Christophe Debruyne

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    Robert Meersman

  2. Curtin University of Technology, DEBII - CBS, De Laeter Way, 6102, Bentley, WA, Australia

    Tharam Dillon

  3. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo S/N, 28660, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain

    Pilar Herrero

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Debruyne, C. (2010). On the Social Dynamics of Ontological Commitments. In: Meersman, R., Dillon, T., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2010 Workshops. OTM 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6428. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16961-8_94

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