A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Handbook of logic in artificial intelligence and logic programming (Vol. 4)
Maintaining knowledge about temporal intervals
Communications of the ACM
Ontologies and semantics for seamless connectivity
ACM SIGMOD Record
Representing complex temporal phenomena for the semantic web and natural language
Representing complex temporal phenomena for the semantic web and natural language
KSEM'07 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Knowledge science, engineering and management
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Temporal information is one of the essential components in many domains, especially those related to history. Up until the twentieth century, the Chinese used a lunisolar calendar with the title of an Emperor and a reign period to express temporal information. When describing a historical event in Chinese history, it is inadequate to use existing time ontologies as presented in the traditional Chinese way of thinking to capture and encode time. To date, no attention in the field has been given to modelling ancient Chinese time. In this paper, we identify the problems encountered when modelling Chinese time resulting from the distinctive nature of a non-western time scale. We design a new model of temporal information with combined approaches, which are more appropriate for Chinese dynasties, emperors, and reign periods, and apply the OWL-Time ontology onto the ancient Chinese lunisolar calendar. This approach can also be applied to other ancient time-keeping methods in non-western time scales.