In many application areas, such as the semantic web, knowledge management, distributed databases, it`s been recognized that we need an explicit way to represent meanings. A major issue in all these efforts is the problem of semantic interoperability, namely the problem of communication between agents using languages with different semantic. We claim that a technological infrastructure for semantic interoperability between `semantically autonomous` communities must be based on the capability of representing local ontologies and mappings between them, rather than on the attempt of creating a global, supposedly shared, conceptualization. The goal of this paper is to define a theoretical framework and a concrete language for the specification of local ontologies and mappings between them
ConTeXtualized local ontology specification via CTXML
Bouquet, Paolo;Serafini, Luciano;
2003-01-01
Abstract
In many application areas, such as the semantic web, knowledge management, distributed databases, it`s been recognized that we need an explicit way to represent meanings. A major issue in all these efforts is the problem of semantic interoperability, namely the problem of communication between agents using languages with different semantic. We claim that a technological infrastructure for semantic interoperability between `semantically autonomous` communities must be based on the capability of representing local ontologies and mappings between them, rather than on the attempt of creating a global, supposedly shared, conceptualization. The goal of this paper is to define a theoretical framework and a concrete language for the specification of local ontologies and mappings between themI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
