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ontology Definition

on·tol·ogy (än tälə jē)

noun

  1. the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being, reality, or ultimate substance
  2. pl. -·gies a particular theory about being or reality

Etymology: ModL ontologia: see onto- & -logy

ontology Related Forms
on′·to·logi·cal (än′tə läji kəl) adjective on′·to·logi·cally adverb on·tolo·gist noun
ontology Synonyms

ontology

n.

philosophy of existence, the nature of being, cosmology; see metaphysics, philosophy.

ontology Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • stratify: Once again the critical realist stratified ontology lends itself to a particular slant on this issue.
  • ascribe: Ascribing an intensional ontology is part of the work of creating cultural descriptions of agent communities.
  • populate: Our main goal is extract knowledge from text to populate the ontology, and so alleviate the problem of ontology maintenance.
  • define: Maybe data mining really should only be done within the context of a clearly defined ontology of metadata.
  • construct: We describe our own experiences in constructing a significant ontology, emphasizing the ontology capture phase.

Adjective modifier

  • intensional: Ascribing an intensional ontology is part of the work of creating cultural descriptions of agent communities.
  • generic: In this report we propose a generic task ontology, which formalizes the space of planning problems.
  • underlying: Not just beliefs change, but also the underlying ontology.
  • formal: Much of the work of my group at Leeds can be viewed as the construction of a formal ontology of space and space-time.
  • rich: This kind of activity could provide a starting point for the development of the much richer ontology that the Hypermedata approach expects.
  • multiple: My interests in this research theme involve knowledge representation and sharing in domains where multiple ontologies may apply to dimensions of interest.

Modifies a noun

  • mapping: The rationale for ontology edits will be captured in meta-data ( ontology mappings ).
  • editor: Model Builders Model builders create or edit the semantic representation of the model in an ontology editor in order to create models.
  • engineering: He is currently in his first year and his research interests are knowledge modeling, particularly all aspects of ontology engineering.

Noun used with modifier

  • realist: However, many of the advantages of triangulation can be gained even without a full commitment to a realist ontology.
  • gene: Anyway, I heard heaps and heaps about gene ontology that went in one ear and out the other.
  • scheduling: At the task level, we constructed generic scheduling task ontology to formalize the space of scheduling problems.
  • anatomy: New features in this release include the use of controlled vocabulary anatomy ontology terms in association with expression patterns.
  • domain: Named entities are used to automatically enrich a domain ontology in the KMi semantic Web site.
  • enterprise: Finally, we describe our experiences in using the Enterprise Ontology.

Browse dictionary entries near ontology

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