The pragmatic web: a manifesto
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
Formalizing typicality of objects and context-sensitivity in ontologies
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
Using information content to evaluate semantic similarity in a taxonomy
IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
The adaptive web: methods and strategies of web personalization
The adaptive web: methods and strategies of web personalization
Personalization for the semantic web
Proceedings of the First international conference on Reasoning Web
Ontology with likeliness and typicality of objects in concepts
ER'06 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Conceptual Modeling
Semantic enrichment by non-experts: usability of manual annotation tools
ISWC'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on The Semantic Web - Volume Part I
Beyond terminologies: Using psychometrics to validate shared ontologies
Applied Ontology - Ontologies and Terminologies: Continuum or Dichotomy?
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Since a long time, Domain Ontologies have been limited to scientific and technical domains. This situation has advantaged the sustainable development of "unbiased and universal knowledge". With the current emergence of Cognitive Sciences and the application of Ontology Engineering to Social and Human Sciences, the need to deal with subjective knowledge becomes more and more crucial. The aim of our work is to develop the notion of Personalised Vernacular Domain Ontology (PVDO). The principle underlying a PVDO consists in considering that an ontology O is not only specific to a delimited domain D, but is also peculiar to an endogroup E which shares a common pragmatics of D. This pragmatics, which complements the formal semantics of D, is defined during a process of ontology personalisation. This process is dependent on a context of use which includes several parameters, and in particular: culture, educational background and emotional state. Thus, ontologies co-evolve with their communities of use, and human interpretation of context in the use. Inspired by works in Cognitive Psychology, our contribution to ontology personalisation is based on the formal definition of two measures which aims at capturing subjective knowledge (i.e. the pragmatics of an ontology for knowledge (re)-using): (1) the conceptual prototypicality gradient evaluates the representativeness of a concept (resp. relation) within a local decomposition of a hierarchy and (2) the lexical prototypicality gradient evaluates the representativeness of a term within a set of terms used to denote a concept (resp. relation). In this way, these gradients aims at reflecting the degree of truth users of ontologies perceive on the is-a hierarchies and to what extent the terms associated to the concepts and relations are representative, respectively.