Capturing knowledge about philosophy

@inproceedings{citeulike:2141287, abstract = {In this paper, we present an ontology developed to support annotating and reasoning about philosophical knowledge. By this term, we refer to both the factual domain of philosophers, concerning their lives and publications, and the theoretical domain, concerning the ideas they have produced and their relationships. The ontology provides a novel model, which brings together a number of existing formalizations and a series of new ones. In this paper we describe the design of the ontology, in particular focusing on the solutions we have devised to address the modelling problems and natural language ambiguities, which occur when capturing knowledge in a domain as complex as that of philosophy. This work is being carried out in the context of developing a tool, PhiloSURFical, which aims to support ontology-driven exploration of philosophical resources. Specifically, the ontology makes it possible to navigate the philosophical domain, according to a number of narratives, which include theoretical, historical, argumentational, geographic, and others.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Pasin, Michele and Motta, Enrico and Zdrahal, Zdenek }, booktitle = {K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture}, citeulike-article-id = {2141287}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1298406.1298416}, isbn = {9781595936431}, keywords = {cidoc-crm, frbr, ontologies--domain, philosophy}, pages = {47--54}, posted-at = {2007-12-18 15:21:46}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Capturing knowledge about philosophy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1298406.1298416}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2141287 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2141287 TI - Capturing knowledge about philosophy T2 - K-CAP '07: Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Knowledge capture SP - 47 EP - 54 AD - New York, NY, USA PB - ACM SN - 9781595936431 N2 - In this paper, we present an ontology developed to support annotating and reasoning about philosophical knowledge. By this term, we refer to both the factual domain of philosophers, concerning their lives and publications, and the theoretical domain, concerning the ideas they have produced and their relationships. The ontology provides a novel model, which brings together a number of existing formalizations and a series of new ones. In this paper we describe the design of the ontology, in particular focusing on the solutions we have devised to address the modelling problems and natural language ambiguities, which occur when capturing knowledge in a domain as complex as that of philosophy. This work is being carried out in the context of developing a tool, PhiloSURFical, which aims to support ontology-driven exploration of philosophical resources. Specifically, the ontology makes it possible to navigate the philosophical domain, according to a number of narratives, which include theoretical, historical, argumentational, geographic, and others. KW - cidoc-crm KW - frbr KW - ontologies--domain KW - philosophy AU - Pasin, Michele AU - Motta, Enrico AU - Zdrahal, Zdenek PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1298406.1298416 ER -