Search results for "ontologies"
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Designing Ontology-Driven Recommender Systems for Tourism
2014
Nowadays, Internet users may experience some difficulty in finding the information they need from the huge multitude of existing web pages. A possible solution to this problem might lie in delegating some of the search tasks to machines, or in other words, in building a Semantic Web in which information could be processed automatically by intelligent software agents. Given the constantly increasing growth of the tourism industry, it might be particularly helpful to develop virtual assistants capable of planning trips on the basis of a user’s interests. If so, adopting Semantic Web technologies would make it possible to provide a more customized service to each user and thus satisfy their re…
An Approach to Enhance Chatbot Semantic Power and Maintainability: Experiences within the FRASI Project
2012
The paper illustrates the implementation and semantic enhancement of a domain-oriented Question-Answering system based on a pattern-matching chat bot technology, developed within an industrial project, named FRASI. The main difficulty in building a KB for a chat bot is to handwrite all possible question-answer pairs that constitute the KB. The proposed approach simplifies the chat bot realization thanks to two solutions. The first one uses an ontology, which is exploited in a twofold manner: to construct dynamic answers as a result of an inference process about the domain, and to automatically populate, off-line, the chat bot KB with sentences that can be derived from the ontology, describi…
Umani ed esistenti: somiglianze e distinzioni di carattere ontologico
2021
Review of Ph. Descola, Oltre natura e cultura, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2021
The place of livestock in human-nonhuman relationship among the Wayuu
2020
In the ethnology of indigenous LSA, the Wayuu case has always been considered a peculiar one. Among the main features which make difficult to insert it in the comparative debate on indigenous models of sociality and cosmology in this area, one can mention: pristine introduction of cattle raising; maintenance of political semi-autonomy till very recent times; development, already in the colonial period, of forms of social hierarchy based on ownership of livestock and other material goods; articulation of these forms with a system of matrilineal descent groups; interplay among the inclusive character of the descendants of mixed unions and the shifting of the traits selected for marking ethnic…
Towards a More Effective Hospital: Helping Health Professionals to Learn from their Own Practice by Developing an Easy to use Clinical Processes Quer…
2016
Application of complex socio-technical systems theory to optimization of clinical processes in hospitals highlights the importance of the acceptance and promotion of responsible autonomy among health professionals. Therefore the independent ability for clinicians to search for answers to questions which are outside the scope of pre-made reports is important. However, the ad-hoc data querying process is slow and error prone due to inability of health professionals to access data directly without involving IT experts. The problem lies in the complexity of means used to query data. We propose a new natural language- and star ontology-based ad-hoc data querying approach which reduces the steep …
Traitpedia: a collaborative effort to gather species traits
2018
Abstract Summary Traitpedia is a collaborative database aimed to collect binary traits in a tabular form for a growing number of species. Availability and implementation Traitpedia can be accessed from http://cbdm-01.zdv.uni-mainz.de/~munoz/traitpedia. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Ontological representation of texts, and its applicationsin text analysis
2003
Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2003 - Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad For the management of a company, the need to know what people think of their products or services is becoming increasingly important in an increasingly competitive market. As the Internet can nearly be described as a digital mirror of events in the ”real“ world, being able to make sense of the semi structured nature of natural language texts published in this ubiquitous medium has received growing interest. The approach proposed in the thesis combines natural language processing and ontologies to represent elements in texts and relations between them. These relations are used to determine what terms …
Ontology languages for the semantic web: A never completely updated review
2006
This paper gives a never completely account of approaches that have been used for the research community for representing knowledge. After underlining the importance of a layered approach and the use of standards, it starts with early efforts used for artificial intelligence researchers. Then recent approaches, aimed mainly at the semantic web, are described. Coding examples from the literature are presented in both sections. Finally, the semantic web ontology creation process, as we envision it, is introduced.
Representing and Reasoning for Spatiotemporal Ontology Integration
2004
International audience; The World-Wide Web hosts many autonomous and heterogeneous information sources. In the near future each source may be described by its own ontology. The distributed nature of ontology development will lead to a large number of local ontologies covering overlapping domains. Ontology integration will then become an essential capability for effective interoperability and information sharing. Integration is known to be a hard problem, whose complexity increases particularly in the presence of spatiotemporal information. Space and time entail additional problems such as the heterogeneity of granularity used in representing spatial and temporal features. Spatio-temporal ob…
Ontologie pour l'intégration de données d'observation de la Terre et contextuelles basée sur les relations topologiques
2018
National audience; Nous proposons une ontologie pour l'intégration de données d'observation de la Terre et de donnés contextuelles, à l'aide de relations topologiques spatiales et temporelles. Cette ontologie spécialise des standards, notamment SOSA, GeoSPARQL et OWL-Time. La base de connaissance décrite par cette ontologie est alimentée grâce à un processus qui sélectionne, transforme et intègre de données géospatiales hétérogènes (méta-données d'image satellite, données météorologiques, unités administratives, couverture terrestre, etc.). Ce processus s'appuie sur le tuilage des images pour traiter les données ayant une composante spatiale fixe, alors que les relations temporelles sont ca…