Information modeling and relational databases: from conceptual analysis to logical design
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A methodology for ontology integration
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ACM SIGMOD Record
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ISMIS '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Foundations of Intelligent Systems
Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems, 2002 - DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2002 Confederated International Conferences DOA, CoopIS and ODBASE 2002
Overview and analysis of methodologies for building ontologies
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Introduction to Data Mining, (First Edition)
Introduction to Data Mining, (First Edition)
Ontology Matching
DOGMA-MESS: A Tool for Fact-Oriented Collaborative Ontology Evolution
OTM '08 Proceedings of the OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: 2008 Workshops: ADI, AWeSoMe, COMBEK, EI2N, IWSSA, MONET, OnToContent + QSI, ORM, PerSys, RDDS, SEMELS, and SWWS
Context dependency management in ontology engineering: a formal approach
Journal on data semantics VIII
Towards ontological commitments with Ω-RIDL markup language
RuleML'07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Advances in rule interchange and applications
Business semantics management: A case study for competency-centric HRM
Computers in Industry
ONTOCOM: a cost estimation model for ontology engineering
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
T-Lex: a role-based ontology engineering tool
OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
Architecting ontology for scalability and versatility
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, COA, and ODBASE - Volume Part II
DOGMA-MESS: a meaning evolution support system for interorganizational ontology engineering
ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Conceptual Structures: inspiration and Application
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In the DOGMA approach to ontology engineering, the construction of an ontology starts from a "Lexon Base", a possibly very large and un-interpreted base of plausible elementary fact types called lexons. Lexons - mined from various linguistic sources such as schemas, texts or domain experts - are used to create ontological commitments by selecting or reusing a meaningful set of lexons and together with constraints so that the intended conceptualization is well approximated. All too often, the same or similar lexons are entered in the Lexon Base, which causes heterogeneity among different ontological commitments. Due to this heterogeneity, meaning negotiation to agree upon a common commitment becomes more difficult. Encouraging lexon reuse by providing knowledge engineers and domain experts an automated process for finding relevant lexons in the Lexon Base or existing ontological commitments can tackle this problem. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to fact type reuse that we will apply to DOGMA MESS, a state-of-the-art collaborative ontology engineering methodology. The method we propose uses several heuristics that reside in one of the six semiotic levels described by Ronald Stamper's semiotic ladder and adds a pragmatic and social layer onto the current methodology and tools. We provide a proof of concept by implementing our method in a tool for finding relevant lexons while building an ontological commitment in a production environment called DOGMA Studio Workbench.