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Creation and Merging of Ontology Top-Levels

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Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication (ICCS 2003)

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We provide a new method for systematically structuring the top-down level of ontologies. It is based on an interactive, top-down knowledge acquisition process, which assures that the knowledge engineer considers all possible cases while avoiding redundant acquisition. The method is suited especially for creating/merging the top part(s) of the ontologies, where high accuracy is required, and for supporting the merging of two (or more) ontologies on that level.

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  1. Institute for Algebra, TU Dresden, D-01062, Dresden, Germany

    Bernhard Ganter

  2. Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB), University of Karlsruhe, D-76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Gerd Stumme

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  1. Institute of Algebra, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Bernhard Ganter

  2. Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab), Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050, Brussels 5, Belgium

    Aldo de Moor

  3. Institut für Algebra, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062, Dresden, Germany

    Wilfried Lex

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Ganter, B., Stumme, G. (2003). Creation and Merging of Ontology Top-Levels. In: Ganter, B., de Moor, A., Lex, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures for Knowledge Creation and Communication. ICCS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2746. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45091-7_9

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