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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2019.2
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-103666
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2019/10366/
Aljalbout, Sahar ;
Buchs, Didier ;
Falquet, Gilles
OWL^C: A Contextual Two-Dimensional Web Ontology Language
Abstract
Representing and reasoning on contexts is an open problem in the semantic web. Despite the fact that context representation has for a long time been treated locally by semantic web practitioners, a recognized and widely accepted consensus regarding the way of encoding and particularly reasoning on contextual knowledge has not yet been reached by far. In this paper, we present OWL^C : a contextual two-dimensional web ontology language. Using the first dimension, we can reason on contexts-dependent classes, properties, and axioms and using the second dimension, we can reason on knowledge about contexts which we consider formal objects, as proposed by McCarthy [McCarthy, 1987]. We demonstrate the modeling strength and reasoning capabilities of OWL^C with a practical scenario from the digital humanity domain. We chose the Ferdinand de Saussure [Joseph, 2012] use case in virtue of its inherent contextual nature, as well as its notable complexity which allows us to highlight many issues connected with contextual knowledge representation and reasoning.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{aljalbout_et_al:OASIcs:2019:10366,
author = {Sahar Aljalbout and Didier Buchs and Gilles Falquet},
title = {{OWL^C: A Contextual Two-Dimensional Web Ontology Language}},
booktitle = {2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019)},
pages = {2:1--2:13},
series = {OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-105-4},
ISSN = {2190-6807},
year = {2019},
volume = {70},
editor = {Maria Eskevich and Gerard de Melo and Christian F{\"a}th and John P. McCrae and Paul Buitelaar and Christian Chiarcos and Bettina Klimek and Milan Dojchinovski},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/10366},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-103666},
doi = {10.4230/OASIcs.LDK.2019.2},
annote = {Keywords: Contextual Reasoning, OWL^C, Contexts in digital humanities}
}
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Contextual Reasoning, OWL^C, Contexts in digital humanities |
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2nd Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2019) |
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2019 |
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16.05.2019 |
