ontology
ontology
Definition
on·tol·ogy (än täl′ə jē)
on′·to·log′i·cal (än′tə läj′i kəl) adjective
on′·to·log′i·cally adverb
on·tol′o·gist noun
ontology
Synonyms
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.
