Topicality in logic-based ontologies

Chiara Del Vescovo; Bijan Parsia; Ulrike Sattler

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5_14

Topicality in logic-based ontologies

Chiara Del Vescovo, Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler

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In this paper we examine several forms of modularity in logics as a basis for various conceptions of the topical structure of an ontology. Intuitively, a topic is a coherent fragment of the subject matter of the ontology. Different topics may play different roles: e.g., the main topic (or topics), side topics, or subtopics. If, at the lowest level, the subject matter of an ontology is characterized by the set of concepts of the ontology, a topic is a "coherent" subset of those concepts. Different forms of modularity induce different, more or less cognitively helpful, notions of coherence and thus distinct topical structures. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)\|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.
Pages	187-200
Number of pages	13
Volume	6828
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5_14
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011 - Derby Duration: 1 Jul 2011 → …

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Conference	19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011
City	Derby
Period	1/07/11 → …

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Del Vescovo, C, Parsia, B & Sattler, U 2011, Topicality in logic-based ontologies. in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. vol. 6828, pp. 187-200, 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, Derby, 1/07/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22688-5_14

Topicality in logic-based ontologies. / Del Vescovo, Chiara; Parsia, Bijan ; Sattler, Ulrike.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)|Lect. Notes Comput. Sci.. Vol. 6828 2011. p. 187-200.

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