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Ontological Research

"Ontology" can be a very broad term:
"In the context of knowledge sharing, I use the term ontology to mean a specification of a conceptualization. That is, an ontology is a description (like a formal specification of a program) of the concepts and relationships that can exist for an agent or a community of agents." [Tom Gruber, What is an Ontology?]
In that sense, all research in knowledge representation and reasoning is relevant to ontological research, and so all the work done by SNeRG is ontological research. Nevertheless, there have been some SNeRG projects that relate to ontological research more specifically.
Contents
Ontological Mediation
Papers on Ontologies
Full SNeRG Bibliography

Ontological Mediation
Ontological mediation is the process by which an intelligent agent can examine and reason about the ontologies of two other intelligent agents (the participants), so that they might be able to communicate efficiently and correctly. In particular, ontological mediation is used to resolve communication problems that are due to differences in ontology between the two communicating agents. An agent that performs ontological mediation is an ontological mediator (OM)." [Alistair E. Campbell, Ontological Mediation: Finding Translations Across Dialects by Asking Questions]

Papers on Ontological Mediation

  1. Alistair E. Campbell, Ontological Mediation: Finding Translations Across Dialects by Asking Questions, PhD dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, December, 1999.

  2. Alistair E. Campbell and Stuart C. Shapiro, Algorithms for Ontological Mediation. In S. Harabagiu, Ed., Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems: Proceedings of the Workshop, COLING-ACL, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998, 102-107. Also Technical Report 98-02, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, January, 1998.

Papers on Ontologies
  1. Jonathan Bona and Stuart C. Shapiro, SNePS As An Ontological Reasoning Tool. In Barry Smith, Ed., Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO), Buffalo, NY, 2009, 160.

  2. A. Patrice Seyed, BFO/DOLCE Primitive Relation Comparison. In: Barry Smith, Ed., Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO), Buffalo, NY, July 23-26, 2009, 190. (poster)

  3. Jonathan Bona and Stuart C. Shapiro, Report on SNePS and RTS, SNeRG Technical Note 45, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, February 27, 2009.

  4. Michael Kandefer and Stuart C. Shapiro, Comparing SNePS with Topbraid/Pellet, SNeRG Technical Note 42, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, July 18, 2008.

  5. Jonathan Bona, OWL Ontologies in SNePS, SNeRG Technical Note 41, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State Universtiy of New York, Buffalo, NY, January 4, 2008.

  6. Haythem O. Ismail, On the Syntax and Semantics of Effect Axioms. In Carola Eschenbach and Michael Grüninger, Eds., Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference (FOIS 2008), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2008.

  7. Haythem Ismail, Simultaneous Events and the "Once-Only" Effect. In Brandon Bennett and Christiane Fellbaum, Eds., Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006), IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2006, 143-154.

  8. Alistair E. Campbell, Ontological Mediation: Finding Translations Across Dialects by Asking Questions, PhD dissertation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, December, 1999.

  9. Alistair E. Campbell and Stuart C. Shapiro, Algorithms for Ontological Mediation. In S. Harabagiu, Ed., Usage of WordNet in Natural Language Processing Systems: Proceedings of the Workshop, COLING-ACL, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998, 102-107. Also Technical Report 98-02, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, January, 1998.
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