Ontology Engineering & Dialog Systems

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Ontology is a branch of computer science and philosophy that deals with the representation, organization, and management of knowledge. An ontology is a formal, explicit specification of a shared conceptualization, which is a set of concepts and relationships that are used to describe a particular domain of knowledge. Ontologies are used to represent knowledge in a structured and standardized way, and they are often used in knowledge-based systems to enable machine interpretation and reasoning.

Ontological engineering is the process of creating and maintaining ontologies, and it involves tasks such as defining the concepts and relationships in the ontology, developing the vocabulary and terminology used in the ontology, and ensuring that the ontology is coherent and consistent. Ontological engineering can be used for a variety of purposes, including organizing learning and instructional theories, building theory-aware authoring systems, and providing context and adaptivity in pervasive computing environments.

Efficient ontological engineering often involves the use of shared lexical resources, which are standardized vocabularies and terminology that can be used across multiple ontologies. Knowledge representation is also an important aspect of ontological engineering, as it involves using formal languages and models to represent knowledge in a way that can be interpreted and understood by machines.

Reverse engineering is one method that can be used for ontological engineering, and it involves analyzing existing resources and systems to uncover fundamental ontological distinctions. This can be useful for understanding the underlying concepts and relationships that are being used in a particular domain, and it can help to identify any inconsistencies or gaps in the existing knowledge representation.

Pattern-based methods are another approach that can be used for ontological engineering, and they involve re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies. This can involve using patterns or templates to identify and extract relevant information from non-ontological resources, and then using this information to create an ontology that represents the underlying knowledge in a structured and standardized way.

There are also other methods and tools that can be used for ontological engineering, such as:

Top-down approaches, which involve starting with a high-level conceptual model and then breaking it down into more detailed concepts and relationships
Bottom-up approaches, which involve starting with a set of low-level concepts and relationships and then building up to a higher-level model
Ontology learning tools, which are automated systems that can extract and organize knowledge from a variety of sources

For example, ontological support can be used for consistency checking of engineering design workflows, to ensure that the design process is following established rules and guidelines. In the life sciences, terminological resources can be reused for efficient ontological engineering, helping to ensure that the ontologies being developed are consistent and coherent.

In infrastructure management, ontological engineering can be used to integrate CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and GIS (Geospatial Information Systems) systems, allowing these systems to share and exchange data and information. Ontological engineering can also be used to interpret geospatial queries, helping to ensure that the queries are accurately understood and properly processed.

In addition, ontological engineering is used in air traffic control to develop knowledge-based situation analysis support systems, which can help controllers to make informed decisions in complex and dynamic situations. It is also used in the customs domain, where it can help to facilitate knowledge sharing and improve the efficiency of processes and procedures.

Ontological engineering can be used to support the development of dialog systems by providing a structured and standardized representation of the knowledge and concepts that are used in the dialog system. This can help to ensure that the system is able to accurately interpret and respond to user input, and it can also facilitate the integration of the dialog system with other systems and applications.

There are several ways in which ontological engineering can be used in dialog systems, including:

Defining the concepts and relationships that are used in the dialog system: Ontological engineering can be used to define the concepts and relationships that are used in the dialog system, helping to ensure that the system has a clear and consistent understanding of the domain it is operating in.
Developing a shared vocabulary and terminology: Ontological engineering can be used to develop a shared vocabulary and terminology for the dialog system, which can help to ensure that the system is able to accurately interpret and respond to user input.
Providing context and adaptivity: Ontological engineering can be used to provide context and adaptivity in dialog systems, allowing the system to tailor its responses based on the specific context and needs of the user.

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A linguistic ontology of space for natural language processing JA Bateman, J Hois, R Ross, T Tenbrink – Artificial Intelligence, 2010 – Elsevier … [31]; S. Borgo, N. Guarino, C. Masolo, Stratified ontologies: The case of physical objects, in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Ontological Engineering at ECAI’96, Budapest, Hungary, 1996; … Linking semantic and knowledge representations in a multi-domain dialogue system. … Cited by 75 Related articles All 9 versions Cite Save

Applications of an ontology engineering methodology accessing linked data for dialogue-based medical image retrieval D Sonntag, P Wennerberg, S Zillner – 2010 – aaai.org … from LODD can eventually improve their search and navigation through additional semantic links (in addition to our FMA / Radlex mapping, which we obtained through the KEMM ontology engineering methodology). We explained this with a dialogue system example in the … Cited by 10 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

Language and space: a two-level semantic approach based on principles of ontological engineering JA Bateman – International Journal of Speech Technology, 2010 – Springer … This draws on a new combination of natural language processing and principles of ontological engineering and stands as a foundation for more sophisti- cated and natural dialogue system behavior where spatial information is involved. … Cited by 17 Related articles All 7 versions Cite Save

Ontology-based natural language processing for in-store shopping situations S Janzen, W Maass – Semantic Computing, 2009. ICSC’09. …, 2009 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … perspective [3]. On the other side of the triangle, the linkage of the two re- search fields NLP and Ontology Engineering facilitates the … customer’s access to targeted product informa- tion at the point of sale can be improved through the use of dialogue systems and heterogeneous … Cited by 12 Related articles All 9 versions Cite Save

Supporting a Rapid Dialogue System Engineering Process D Sonntag, R Nesselrath, G Sonnenberg… – Proceedings of the 1st …, 2009 – dfki.de … Figure 3 (left) shows the class view of the domain-specific dialogue acts (as implemented in the Comet music retrieval system [Sonntag et al., 2009a] and in the dialogue system for the medical domain [Sonntag and … 3: Graphical User Interface of the Ontology Engineering Tool … Cited by 5 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

SoKNOS–Using Semantic Technologies in Disaster Management Software G Babitski, S Bergweiler, O Grebner, D Oberle… – The Semanic Web: …, 2011 – Springer … According to the task of giving an incident command, the development of the dialog system was focusing on rapid and specific response … We present our lessons learned from that work in three parts: the ontology engineering process, the software engineering process, and the … Cited by 16 Related articles All 7 versions Cite Save

Modularizing spatial ontologies for assisted living systems J Hois – Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, 2010 – Springer … Applications, such as object recognition or natural language dialogue systems, need to use only those ontologies that are relevant for … Springer, Heidelberg (2003) 8. Gómez-Pérez, A., Fernández-López, M., Corcho, O. (eds.): Ontological Engineering – with examples from the … Cited by 9 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

Ontology extension towards analysis of business news I Novalija, D Mladenic – Informatica (Slovenia), 2010 – Citeseer … The semi-automatic approach for Cyc KB extension presented in [6] is based on the user- interactive dialogue system for knowledge … com [2] F. Burkhardt, JA Gulla, J. Liu, C. Weiss, J. Zhou: Semi Automatic Ontology Engineering in Business Applications, Workshop Applications … Cited by 7 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save More

Situating spatial language and the role of ontology: Issues and outlook J Bateman – Language and Linguistics Compass, 2010 – Wiley Online Library … non-linguistic spatial descriptions. Methods drawn from ontological engineering are suggested to be relevant both for the representations of these areas and for specifying the interrelationships between them. In addition, a characterisation … Cited by 11 Related articles Cite Save

An interactive approach of ontology-based requirement elicitation for software customization X Zhang – 2011 – scholar.uwindsor.ca … according to the knowledge related to requirement engineering, which is built in knowledge base of the dialogue system. Work related to knowledge-based requirement … 4.1) is presented according to the ontology engineering steps proposed in [21]. First, concepts of … Cited by 6 Related articles Cite Save

Usability of upper level ontologies: The case of ResearchCyc J Conesa, VC Storey, V Sugumaran – Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2010 – Elsevier … The architecture of the middleware primarily consists of two major components: (a) ontology user component, and (b) ontology engineering component. … The ontology engineering component provides tools for creating and maintaining the content of the ontology library. … Cited by 16 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

[BOOK] Ontologies and Adaptivity in Dialogue for Question Answering D Sonntag – 2010 – books.google.com … SmartWeb System Roadmap 7 3 Chapter 2. Scientific Background 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Natural Language Processing Dialogue Systems Information Retrieval Question Answering Ontologies Metacognition and Introspection Machine Learning Standards Related … Cited by 21 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

OntoPlus: Text-driven ontology extension using ontology content, structure and co-occurrence information I Novalija, D Mladeni?, L Bradeško – Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011 – Elsevier … The semi-automatic approach for Cyc KB extension presented in [28] is based on the user-interactive dialogue system for knowledge acquisition, where, the user is engaged in a natural-language mixed-initiative dialogue. The … Cited by 9 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

Modeling tutoring knowledge J Bourdeau, M Grandbastien – Advances in intelligent tutoring systems, 2010 – Springer … In 2000, Mizogu- chi and Bourdeau (2000) anticipated that ontological engineering would serve this purpose and expressed their desire for an ontology that would respect the diversity of ITSs, while serving the field with tutoring strategies explicitly anchored in ei- ther theoretical … Cited by 7 Related articles All 8 versions Cite Save

Semantics and ontologies for EarthCube G Berg-Cross, IF Cruz, M Dean, T Finin… – 2012 – corescholar.libraries.wright.edu … 5. Involve domain experts in ontology engineering and enable them to become active participants by providing building blocks, strategies … 7. Exploit the power of classical and non-classical reasoning services to develop user interfaces, dialog systems and service chains that … Cited by 4 Related articles All 20 versions Cite Save

Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management A Fred, JLG Dietz, K Liu, J Filipe – … Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, October 6-8 …, 2011 – Springer … 29 Natalia Vanetik Concept Discovery and Automatic Semantic Annotation for Language Understanding in an Information-Query Dialogue System Using Latent Dirichlet … 247 Fumiyo Fukumoto and Yoshimi Suzuki Ontology Engineering for the Autonomous Systems Domain … Cited by 3 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

[BOOK] Advances in Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems M Graña, C Toro, J Posada, RJ Howlett, LC Jain – 2012 – books.google.com Page 1. p-éwg AovAm’is m KNQwLEDGE-BAS’ED AWilNTELLlGENf-J INFORMATION AND ENGINEERIN TEMS\ f ‘-Edited by.’51% Manuel Gra?a ‘) 3′-> T.’ _. _£ ar| osToro (at. x”“3;, v , e Po adaw,”‘ \ Page 2. ADVANCES IN KNOWLEDGE … Cited by 2 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

Automated Dialogue-Based Ontology Elicitation E Costetchi, E Ras, T Latour – Procedia Computer Science, 2011 – Elsevier … of ontology primitives (eg, classes, instances, properties, relationships, etc.) anddoes not need any specific ontology engineering knowledge. … expertise in recognizing ontological knowledge), into formal ontology elicitation techniques, which can be applied in a dialogue system. … Cited by 1 Related articles Cite Save

Toward adapting interactions by considering user emotions and capabilities I Cearreta, N Garay-Vitoria – Human-Computer Interaction. Towards …, 2011 – Springer … In this case, AFFIN will use simpler phrases with a different dialog system as well. … Wadsworth Publishing Co., Belmont (1971) 2. Gómez Pérez, A., Fernández Pérez, M., Corcho, O.: Ontological Engineering: with exam- ples from the areas of Knowledge Management. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

Linked Data Integration for Semantic Dialogue and Backend Access. D Sonntag, M Kiesel – AAAI Spring Symposium: Linked Data Meets Artificial …, 2010 – aaai.org … In van Kuppevelt, J.; Dy- bkjaer, L.; and Bernsen, NO, eds., Advances in Natural Multimodal Dialogue Systems. Springer. … Sonntag, D.; Wennerberg, P.; and Zillner, S. 2010. Appli- cations of an ontology engineering methodology accessing linked data for medical image retrieval. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web JM Gómez-Pérez, C Ruiz – Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-I, 2010 – Springer Page 1. Chapter 8 Ontological Engineering and the Semantic Web José Manuel Gómez-Pérez and Carlos Ruiz … The role of networked ontologies as a new stage in ontology engineering is described, where we transit from isolated informa- tion silos to networks of knowledge. … Cited by 2 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

Recommendations for Modern Tools to Author Tutoring Systems K Brawner, H Holden, B Goldberg, R Sottilare – The Interservice/Industry …, 2012 – NTSA … With a basis of ontology engineering, several implementations used ontological approaches for generating learner models. … Artificial Intelligence in Education 2003 Workshop Proceedings on Tutorial Dialogue Systems: With a View Toward the Classroom V. Aleven, U. Hoppe, J … Cited by 2 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

A recommender system for assistive environments A Papangelis, G Galatas, F Makedon – Proceedings of the 4th …, 2011 – dl.acm.org … Process- ing techniques and targeted for Assistive Environments, whether as part of a companion (a dialogue system whose purpose is to … Context and Adap- tivity in Pervasive Computing Environments: Links with Soft- ware Engineering and Ontological Engineering, Journal of … Cited by 3 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

Semi-automatic ontology extension using text mining I Novalija, D Mladenic – Conference on Data Mining and Data …, 2009 – ailab.ijs.si … 2] Burkhardt, F., Gulla, JA, Liu, J., Weiss, C., Zhou, J.: Semi Automatic Ontology Engineering in Business … 8] Witbrock, M., Baxter, D., Curtis, J., Schneider, D., Kahlert, R., Miraglia, P., Wagner, P., Panton, K., Matthews, G., Vizedom, A.: An Interactive Dialogue System for Knowledge … Cited by 2 Related articles Cite Save More

Model-Driven Software Development SW Liddle – Handbook of Conceptual Modeling, 2011 – Springer … Softw and Syst Model 4(2):171–188 CrossRef; Bolchini D, Garzotto F (2008) Designing multichannel web applications as “dialogue systems”: the IDM model. … Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River; Spyns P, Meersman R, Jarrar M (2002) Data modeling versus ontology engineering. … Cited by 4 Related articles All 11 versions Cite Save

Linkage of Heterogeneous Knowledge Resources within In-store Dialogue Interaction S Janzen, T Kowatsch, W Maass, A Filler – The Semantic Web–ISWC 2010, 2010 – Springer … An ontology within NLP constitutes the conceptualized description of the domain of the dialogue system [11]. … The important role of the combination of language technologies, ontology engineering and machine learning is also described by Buitelaar et al. [13]. … Cited by 3 Related articles All 11 versions Cite Save

Enabling distributed communication of manual skills S Fox, P Ehlen, M Purver – International Journal of Managing …, 2011 – emeraldinsight.com … Similar processes are at work within computational semantics applications such as in-car dialogue systems. … Devedzic, V. (2002), “Understanding ontological engineering”, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 45 No.4, pp.136-44. … Cited by 2 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

Ontological technologies for user modelling S Sosnovsky, D Dicheva – International Journal of Metadata, …, 2010 – Inderscience … current information task. The short-term model is discarded when the session ends. 2.1.3 Goals, plans, tasks and needs Modelling users’ goals and plans has been widely exploited in intelligent dialog systems. Knowledge of what … Cited by 36 Related articles All 9 versions Cite Save

An introduction to hybrid semantics: the role of cognition in semantic resources A Oltramari – Modeling, Learning, and Processing of Text …, 2012 – Springer … the OWL model (for instance, in the Protégé frame-based platform15): in fact, the actual Q/A dialog system retrieves information … Houghton Mifflin, Boston (1979) [12] Gomez-Perez, A., Corcho, O., Fernandez-Lopez, M.: Ontological Engineering (with examples from the areas of … Cited by 3 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

A model for generating personalised learning experiences GR Mangione, P Anna, S Salerno – International Journal of …, 2009 – Inderscience … an increasingly important role in text-related research and applications in areas such as text mining, web page retrieval and dialogue systems. … They are vectors of implicit knowledge and could become significant inputs for the bottom up and ontological engineering process for … Cited by 3 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

Interacting with Ontologies and Linked Data through Controlled Natural Languages and Dialogues R Denaux, V Dimitrova, AG Cohn – Do-Form: Enabling Domain …, 2013 – cs.bham.ac.uk … to the lack of knowledge about ontology modelling processes by domain experts [8]. The Ordnance Survey adapted existing ontology engineering methodologies to … The dialogue manager is based on years of research in the field of dialogue systems [10] and can be seen as an … Cited by 2 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

An Interactive Approach of Online Software Customization via Conversational Web Agents X Yuan, X Zhang – … (GreenCom), 2013 IEEE and Internet of …, 2013 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … Active research is ongoing towards the investigation of ontology and other methodologies for the introduction of dialogue systems into intelligent … Following the ontology engineering procedures suggested in [27], the proposed model also uses relationships to link concepts and … Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

An ontology-based adaptive reporting tool C Martenson, A Horndahl, Z Kabir – roceedings of the Sixth …, 2011 – stids.c4i.gmu.edu … the information model used by the input device greatly improves the conditions for accomplishing a computer based dialogue system. … editors, such as Protégé, allow instance creation but require advanced user knowledge both regarding the domain and ontology engineering. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Reusing ontologies on the Semantic Web: A feasibility study E Simperl – Data & Knowledge Engineering, 2009 – Elsevier … In the overall ontology-engineering process model this typically corresponds to an ontology-merging step among reused and/or manually built … Peralta and Pinto describe the development of the ONTO-SD ontology for a natural language dialogue system for a ticket vending … Cited by 76 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

Ontologies of Language and Language Processing JA Bateman – Theory and Applications of Ontology: Computer …, 2010 – Springer … Language and space: A two-level semantic approach based on principles of ontological engineering. International Journal of Speech Technology 13(1):29–48. … In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems at the 18th IJCAI. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

My personal user interface: A semantic user-centric approach to manage and share user information T Plumbaum, K Schulz, M Kurze, S Albayrak – Human Interface and the …, 2011 – Springer … Keywords: information visualization, recommender systems, data mining, user modeling, user-centered design, ontological engineering, semantic mapping. 1 Introduction … In: Kobsa, A., Wahlster, W. (eds.) User Models in Dialog Systems, pp. 411–430. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

An automatic approach for ontology-based feature extraction from heterogeneous textualresources C Vicient, D Sánchez, A Moreno – Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2013 – Elsevier … Another domain-dependent system is SOBA (Buitelaar et al., 2008), a sub-component of the SmartWeb (a multi-modal dialog system that derives answers from unstructured resources such as the Web), which automatically populates a knowledge base with information extracted … Cited by 8 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

Supporting domain experts to construct conceptual ontologies: A holistic approach R Denaux, C Dolbear, G Hart, V Dimitrova… – Web Semantics: Science, …, 2011 – Elsevier … Abstract. A recent trend in ontology engineering research aims at encouraging the active participation of domain experts in the ontology creation process. … Promoting this involvement has been an important trend in recent research efforts in Ontology Engineering. … Cited by 22 Related articles All 13 versions Cite Save

Advanced Language Understanding and Dialogue Management for Language Learning JF Quesada, C Nunez – conference.pixel-online.net … 2012. [6] Lee, G.; Jung, S.; Kim, K.; Lee, D.; Lee, GG “Recent Approaches to Dialog Management for Spoken Dialog Systems.” Journal of … Volume 22, pp. 325-353. 2003. [8] Basili, R.; Pennacchiotti, M.; Zanzotto, FM: “Language Learning and Ontology Engineering: an Integrated … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

STIDS 2012 Committees R Carvalho, W Ceusters, P Costa, M Dean, K Goodier… – Citeseer … and intelligence collection in general Usability issues relating to semantic technology Best practices in ontological engineering Fairfax, VA … 49 A Policy-?Based Dialogue System for Physical Access Control Mohammad Ababneh, Duminda Wijesekera, and James Bret Michael … Cite Save More

An experience of developing Quran ontology with contextual information support R Iqbal, A Mustapha, ZM Yusoff – Multicultural Education & …, 2013 – emeraldinsight.com … It can also be seen in the existing literature related to ontologies, that several ontology engineering methodologies and approaches have been … modified in the future to support many Quran-related semantic applications in the future such as in dialogue systems (Mustapha, 2009 … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

[BOOK] STAIRS 2010: Proceedings of the Fifth Starting AI Researchers’ Symposium T Ågotnes – 2011 – books.google.com … and the semantic web, agent programming and planning, logic and reasoning, economic approaches, games, dialogue systems, user preferences … Class Subgroup Discovery 1 Tarek Abudawood and Peter Flach Improving the Efficiency of Ontology Engineering by Introducing … All 2 versions Cite Save

Semantic Dialogue System For Radiologists D Sonntag, M Huber, M Möller, A Ndiaye, S Zillner… – dfki.de … This means the skeleton plane is already pre-specified by the ontology engineering requirements in the medical application domain. … Either the user acts and the system reacts or the other way around. Every time the user uses the dialogue system, she will improve her mental … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Sovereign-Natural Language Interfaces for authoring, annotating and accessing Knowledge on the Semantic Desktop B Davis – eswc2009.org … knowledge representation formats includ- ing OWL and RDF-S). Previous work [2] has used CLIE to generate ontologies from the input Controlled Natural Language (CNL) called CLOnE (Controlled Language for Ontology Engineering). … Hybrid NLG in a Generic Dialog System. … Related articles All 7 versions Cite Save More

Semantics and Ontologies For EarthCube NW Thessen14, I Zaslavsky16 – GIScience in the Big Data Age – Citeseer … 5. Involve domain experts in ontology engineering and enable them to become active participants by providing building blocks, strategies … 7. Exploit the power of classical and non-classical reasoning services to develop user interfaces, dialog systems and service chains that … Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save More

Interpreting Design Structure in Patents Using an Ontology Library Z Li, D Tate – ASME 2013 International Design …, 2013 – … .asmedigitalcollection.asme.org … demonstrated the use of ontological engineering and reasoning to support intelligent engineering analysis. … Typical applications of NLP include information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine translation, summarization, and dialogue systems [24]. … Cite Save

HIV Testing Site (HTS) Locator: Applying Current Computing Trends to Voice Applications M Maema, A Terzoli, L Dalvit – cs.ru.ac.za … We chose Protégé primarily because it is regarded as a leading ontological engineering tool that enables easy creation of ontologies that can be represented in various formats. … Dialogue and domain knowledge management in dialogue systems. … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Towards learned feedback for enhancing trust in information seeking dialogue for radiologists D Sonntag – Proceedings of the 16th international conference on …, 2011 – dl.acm.org … 12. D. Sonntag, P. Wennerberg, and S. Zillner. Applications of an ontology engineering methodology. In AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2010. 13. MA Walker. An application of reinforcement learning to dialogue strategy selection in a spoken dialogue system for email. … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

Authors’ Biographies M di Bello – Law, Ontologies and the Semantic Web: Channelling …, 2009 – books.google.com … His research interests include knowledge representation, ontology engineering, knowledge based reasoning and in general the application of … in the areas of seman- tic processing, linguistically guided information access techniques, and spoken- language dialogue systems. … All 3 versions Cite Save

The Babel of the Semantic Web Tongues–In Search of the Rosetta Stone of Interoperability O Kutz, C Lange, T Mossakowski, CM Keet… – What will the Semantic … – Citeseer … The result is a Babylonian confusion1 of languages used in ontology engineering, and whilst certain relationships between some of … interactions between such embodied services and human agents acting in such environments (eg using intelligent dialogue systems) will clearly … Cite Save More

A Speech Based Approach to Surveillance Video Retrieval B QasemiZadeh, J Shen, I O’Neill… – Advanced Video and …, 2009 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … Our longer-term goal is to develop the experimental natural language interface into a comprehensive interactive natural language dialogue system. … [3] JR Hobbs, and F. Pan, “Time Ontology in OWL”, Ontology Engineering Patterns Task Force of the Semantic Web Best … Related articles All 13 versions Cite Save

Developing Domain Ontology for Nigerian History I Afolabi, O Daramola, T Adio – Australian Journal of Basic and …, 2014 – ajbasweb.com … Keywords: cultural, historical, information extraction, knowledge, ontology engineering, political … leverage the NHO in practical problem solving in areas such as news generation, automatic essay grading, E-learning, recommender systems, intelligent dialog systems, and more. … Cite Save More

A proposed architecture for self-adaptive expert systems TT Chen, CS Ho – International Journal of Software Engineering and …, 2009 – World Scientific … The architecture is designed by referring to the techniques of Self-Adaptive Software [14, 16, 22, 24, 39], Model- Based Reasoning [6, 29], Rule-Based Reasoning [17, 25, 28], Ontology Engineering [1, 9, 13, 15, 20, 21, 35], Object-Oriented Paradigm [18], Information Entropy [26 … Related articles Cite Save

The Babel of the Semantic Web Tongues–In Search of the Rosetta Stone of Interoperability C Lange, M Gruninger – meteck.org … The result is a Babylonian confusion1 of languages used in ontology engineering, and whilst certain relationships between some of … interactions between such embodied services and human agents acting in such environments (eg using intelligent dialogue systems) will clearly … Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save More

Applying Semantic Technology To Business News Analysis I Novalija, D Mladeni? – Applied Artificial Intelligence, 2013 – Taylor & Francis … 20085. Burkhardt , F. , JA Gulla , J. Liu , C. Weiss , and J. Zhou . 2008 . Semi automatic ontology engineering in business applications. In Proceedings of GI Jahrestagung 2008, 688–693. … 2003 . An interactive dialogue system for knowledge acquisition in Cyc. … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

Information Retrieval and User-Centric Recommender System Evaluation A Said, A Bellog?n, A De Vries, B Kille – dai-labor.de … Multiagent System Technologies; 2009. Analysis of a New Simulation Approach to Dialog System Evaluation Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht, Michael Quade, Sebastian Möller In: Speech Communication; 2009. Merging Agents and … Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save More

A Framework for User Interface Integration H Paulheim – Ontology-based Application Integration, 2011 – Springer Page 1. Chapter 5 A Framework for User Interface Integration Abstract This chapter gives a high-level view on a framework for application integra- tion on the user interface level. This chapter will be the basis for various refinements … All 2 versions Cite Save

[BOOK] Intuitive ontology authoring using controlled natural language R Denaux – 2013 – etheses.whiterose.ac.uk … 45 3.3.4 Support for Following Ontology Engineering Methodology 47 3.4 Evaluation . . . . . 50 … 147 5.1 Relevant Work on Dialogues for Ontology Authoring . . . . . 148 5.2 Dialogue Systems Overview . . . . . 151 … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

A semantic model for actions and events in ambient intelligence MJ Santofimia, SE Fahlman, X del Toro, F Moya… – … Applications of Artificial …, 2011 – Elsevier Event ma nagement and response generation are two essential aspects of systems for ambient intelligence. This work proposes handling these issues through the us. Cited by 5 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

Basic help and teachable agent M Wißner, M Häring, R Bühling, W Beek… – Deliverable …, 2010 – hcs.science.uva.nl … We also describe how the different parts of the dialog system presented in Deliverable 5.2 aid us in achieving this task. Internal reviewers Paulo Salles (FUB), Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Brasilia Esther Lozano (UPM), Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad … Cited by 4 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Reflective dialogue for on-the-job training in emergency services W Eamsinvattana – 2011 – etheses.whiterose.ac.uk … Education ….. 205 8.3.3. Contribution to Ontology Engineering ….. 205 8.4. … which integrates a tutorial dialogue and an ontological model; • Ontology Engineering (OE) – exploitation of the concept of Activity Theory for ontology … Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

Grounding Ontologies with Social Processes and Natural Language C Debruyne, TK Tran, R Meersman – Journal on Data Semantics, 2013 – Springer … tool support for this method; (N) no specific tool support for this method has been proposed; (A) adopting/extending existing ontology engineering tools for the … Again here, the methods with a tool supporting dialogue rely on the dialogue system to support the social processes. … Cited by 1 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

Knowledge sharing in change management: A case study in the French railways company A Remillieux, C Petitmengin… – Journal of …, 2010 – halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr … distinguished from argumentation models: whereas the latter model negotiation processes, especially for interfaces of dialog systems, OCM’s … Existing ontologies are not adapted to tacit knowledge representation since current research practice on ontology engineering does not … Cited by 1 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

Anisotropic propagation of user interests in ontology-based user models F Cena, S Likavec, F Osborne – Information Sciences, 2013 – Elsevier This work contributes to the development of ontology-based user models, devised as overlays over conceptual hierarchies derived from domain ontologies. We tackl. Cited by 1 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

User and Situation R Porzel – Contextual Computing, 2011 – Springer … Since then, mobile incarnations of dialog systems have added numerous domains which was facilitated on the one hand by coupling … employing modal logic [Barwise and Perry, 1983] to more recent ones, which were motivated also by ontology engineering perspectives within … All 2 versions Cite Save

Natural language generation and semantic web technologies N Bouayad-Agha, G Casamayor… – Semantic Web … – semantic-web-journal.org … Section 3). We then review NLG research that exploits SW-data (Section 4) from two different angles—NLG for ontology engineering vs. … In Janzen and Maas’s dialogue system [68], NLG starts from a layered OWL-DL knowledge repository that contains a complete model about … Cited by 2 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Ontologies on trial: the lesson of Maurice v. Judd (New York, 1818) E Nissan – Information & Communications Technology Law, 2013 – Taylor & Francis … Toppano, E., Roberto, V., Giuffrida, R., & Buora, GB (2008). Ontology engineering: Reuse and integration. … There are applications of ontologies to information-providing dialogue-systems: in Sweden, Annika Flycht-Eriksson completed a doctoral dissertation (200432. … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

Ontology-Based Information Extraction CV Monllaó – 2011 – acia.udl.cat Page 1. Master in Artificial Intelligence (UPC-URV-UB) Master of Science Thesis Ontology-based Information Extraction Carlos Vicient Monllaó June, 23rd 2011 Page 2. Page 3. iii Table of contents … Cited by 2 Related articles Cite Save More

Introduction to the Semantic Web Technologies J Domingue, D Fensel, JA Hendler – Handbook of Semantic Web …, 2011 – Springer Page 1. Part 1 Foundations and Technologies Page 2. Page 3. 1 Introduction to the Semantic Web Technologies John Domingue1 . Dieter Fensel2 . James A. Hendler3 1The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK 2University of … Cited by 5 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

Natural Language Generation in the context of the Semantic Web N Bouayad-Agha, G Casamayor, L Wanner – Semantic Web, 2013 – IOS Press Page 1. UNCORRECTED PROOF Semantic Web 00 (20xx) 1–21 1 DOI 10.3233/SW-130125 IOS Press 1 52 2 53 3 54 4 55 5 56 6 57 7 58 8 59 9 60 10 61 11 62 12 63 13 64 14 65 15 66 16 67 17 68 18 69 19 70 20 71 21 72 22 73 23 74 24 75 25 76 26 77 27 78 28 79 29 80 30 … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

Semi-automatic ontology construction B Fortuna – 2011 – slais.ijs.si … A. The integration of machine learning techniques in the semi-automatic ontology construction enables domain experts with little ontology engineering experience to … ontology extension based on the user-interactive dialogue system for knowledge … Cited by 3 Related articles Cite Save More

Ontology-Based Interpretation of Natural Language P Cimiano, C Unger, J McCrae – Synthesis Lectures on …, 2014 – morganclaypool.com … 2010 Page 7. v Spoken Dialogue Systems Kristiina Jokinen and Michael McTear 2009 Introduction to Chinese Natural Language Processing Kam-Fai Wong, Wenjie Li, Ruifeng Xu, and Zheng-sheng Zhang 2009 Introduction … Cited by 1 Cite Save

Ontology Extension Using Text Mining For News Analysis I Novalija – slais.ijs.si … The mentioned principles of ontology engineering allow for creation of highly reusable, easily built and maintained ontologies. … semi-automatic approach for ontology extension presented in (Witbrock et al., 2003) is based on the user-interactive dialogue system for knowledge … Related articles Cite Save More

Semantic Web IDD Fensel2-James, A Hendler – Handbook of Semantic Web …, 2011 – books.google.com Page 24. 1.1 1.2 1.2. 1 1.2. 2 1.2. 3 1.2. 4 1.3 1.3. 1 1.3. 2 1.3. 3 1.3. 4 1.3. 5 1.3. 6 1.4 1.4. 1 1.4. 2 1.4. 3 1.5 1.5. 1 1.6 1.6. 1 1.6. 1.1 Introduction to the Semantic Web Technologies Iohn Dornz’ngae1-Dieter Fensel2-James A. Hendler3 … Cite Save

On Applying Controlled Natural Languages for Ontology Authoring and Semantic Annotation BP Davis – 2013 – vmserver14.nuigalway.ie … ing tools, such as Protégé1[Knublauch et al., 2004] and Swoop [Kalyanpur et al., 2006] attempt to resolve this, but they often require ontology engineering skills on the part of the user. … RDF3 and OWL4 ) or ontology engineering tools. CLOnE’s components are based on … Cite Save

Basic tutorial tactics for virtual agents M Wißner, E André, M Häring, G Mehlmann, R Bühling… – 2010 – dare.uva.nl … Page 2 / 48 DynaLearn D5.2 Abstract This document presents the progress and effort made in the design of a dialog system for the virtual characters in DynaLearn. … Internal reviewers Jorge Gracia del Río (UPM), Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid … Cited by 3 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Language Technology 2020: The Meta-Net Priority Research Themes G Rehm, H Uszkoreit – META-NET Strategic Research Agenda for …, 2013 – Springer … Technologies such as, eg, information extraction, data mining, automatic linking and summarisation have to be made interoperable with knowledge representation and semantic web methods such as ontological engineering. … Cite Save

Towards an Ontology Development Methodology for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises A Öhgren – 2009 – diva-portal.org Page 1. Linköping Studies in Science and Technology Thesis No. 1401 Towards an Ontology Development Methodology for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises ANNIKA ÖHGREN Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering … Cited by 1 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

OVR: a novel architecture for voice-based applications M Maema – 2011 – eprints.ru.ac.za … 19 2.1.5.3 Selection Criteria for a Reasoner . . . . . 20 2.2 Human-Machine Dialog Systems . . . . . 20 2.2.1 Types of Dialog Systems . . . . . 21 2.2.2 Dialog Management . . . . . 22 … Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

On the classification of emotional biosignals evoked while viewing affective pictures: an integrated data-mining-based approach for healthcare applications CA Frantzidis, C Bratsas, MA Klados… – … in Biomedicine, IEEE …, 2010 – ieeexplore.ieee.org … However, a different approach should be adopted in order to process successfully these discrete human emotions. The integration of these approaches involves a combination of data mining techniques, neuroinformatics, and ontology engineering. … Cited by 40 Related articles All 6 versions Cite Save

Semantic annotation of Italian legal texts: A FrameNet-based approach. G Venturi – Constructions & Frames, 2011 – search.ebscohost.com … Dinarelli et al. (2009) also pursued a mul- tilingual goal within the LUNA project (Language UNderstanding in multilingAl communication systems),3 which is developing an advanced spoken dialog system for real-time understanding of spontaneous speech. … Cited by 4 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

Ontology-based Information Extraction C Vicient Monllaró – 2011 – upcommons.upc.edu Page 1. Master in Artificial Intelligence (UPC-URV-UB) Master of Science Thesis Ontology-based Information Extraction Carlos Vicient Monllaó Advisors: Antonio Moreno Ribas, David Sánchez Ruenes June, 23rd 2011 Page 2. v Agraïments … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

das PL febrero O DE RE, EN IN, RE DE, OS LIN, E LI, S ICOS – sinai.ujaen.es … 61 Page 5. 5 Flexible Dialogue System ….. 62 INTERACTOR (Natural Interaction Platform) …. 64 3.2 Buscadores … Related articles Cite Save More

Game and Learning Alliance A Brisson, G Pereira – 2012 – galanoe.eu Page 1. GALA Game and Learning Alliance The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games Deliverable n. 2.2 WORK PACKAGE NUMBER WP 2 TASK NUMBER TC2.6 DELIVERABLE NUMBER 2.2 DELIVERY DATE TASK LEADER … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

[BOOK] Operational Risk Management: a practical approach to intelligent data analysis R Kenett, Y Raanan – 2011 – books.google.com … The MUSING partners combined expertise and experience in risk management, information extraction and natural language processing, with ontology engineering, data mining and statistical modelling. The focus in this book is operational risk management. … Cited by 24 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics M Kay, C Boitet – Proceedings of COLING, 2012 – newdesign.aclweb.org Page 1. COLING 2012 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers Program chairs: Martin Kay and Christian Boitet 8-15 December 2012 Mumbai, India Page 2. Diamond sponsors … All 8 versions Cite Save More

Domain and Discourse R Porzel – Contextual Computing, 2011 – Springer … knowledge – based on RDFS grammars and vocabularies – can be employed for representing knowledge in multimodal dialog systems [Gurevych et … Also graphical ontology engineering front-ends and visualization tools are available for editing, maintaining, and visualizing the … All 2 versions Cite Save

Monolingual Dictionary Semantic Capturing Using Concept Lattice. A Meštrovi?, M ?ubrilo – International Review on Computers …, 2011 – search.ebscohost.com … areas of FCA application include information retrieval from textual data, interactive mining of documents or collections of documents and rule mining from structured data [3]-[7]. Further, many recent researches highlight FCA applications for ontology engineering, navigation and … Cited by 3 Related articles All 4 versions Cite Save

AmI Case-Design and Implementation (D4. 1) S Janzen, E Blomqvist, A Filler, S Gönül, T Kowatsch… – 2011 – academia.edu Page 1. AmI Case – Design and Implementation (D4.1) www.iks-project.eu Interactive Knowledge Stack for Semantic Content Management Systems Deliverable: D4.1 – AmI Case Design and Implementation Delivery Date: 30.09 … Related articles All 7 versions Cite Save More

Toward Portable Information Extraction MV Tablan – 2009 – valentin.tablan.net Page 1. MV Tablan Toward Portable Information Extraction Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2009 Page 2. Page 3. Toward Portable Information Extraction Mihai Valentin Tablan Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save More

Architecting Self-Management in the Hydra Middleware M Ingstrup, W Zhang, KM Hansen, JM Fernandes – iis.uni-hildesheim.de Page 1. Page 2. Preface We are pleased to present the Workshop Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Con- ference on Artificial Intelligence (KI 2009), which is held on September 15-18 in Paderborn. This year the volume includes … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save More

Spatial role labeling: Towards extraction of spatial relations from natural language P Kordjamshidi, M Van Otterlo, MF Moens – ACM Transactions on …, 2011 – dl.acm.org Page 1. 4 Spatial Role Labeling: Towards Extraction of Spatial Relations from Natural Language PARISA KORDJAMSHIDI, MARTIJN VAN OTTERLO, and MARIE- FRANCINE MOENS, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium … Cited by 27 Related articles All 5 versions Cite Save

The Multilingual Semantic Web (Dagstuhl Seminar 12362). P Buitelaar, KS Choi, P Cimiano, EH Hovy… – Dagstuhl …, 2012 – drops.dagstuhl.de … Ontologies could help dialogue systems triggering predictable actions in AAL smart homes, ie turning off the oven when not used or reminding a person to make a phone call. 6. How can standardization (eg by the W3C) contribute? … Cited by 4 Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

The Multilingual Semantic Web P Buitelaar, KS Choi, P Cimiano, EH Hovy – vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de … Ontologies could help dialogue systems triggering predictable actions in AAL smart homes, ie turning off the oven when not used or reminding a person to make a phone call. 6. How can standardization (eg by the W3C) contribute? … Cited by 1 Related articles Cite Save More

Natural Language Processing-A Survey K Mote – arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.6238, 2012 – arxiv.org Page 1. 0 Page 2. 1 INTRODUCTION: “WHY CAN’T COMPUTERS UNDERSTAND PLAIN ENGLISH?” … 1 1. THE PURPOSE: …. 3 1.1 FOUNDATION … Related articles All 2 versions Cite Save

Analysis of the applicability of the Generalized Upper Model framework to Portuguese spatial language and its corresponding implementation in an OpenCCG– … ASM Bernardo – desi.linuxusers.de Page 1. Analysis of the applicability of the Generalized Upper Model framework to Portuguese spatial language and its corresponding implementation in an OpenCCG-based grammar Masterarbeit zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades “Master of Arts” Language Sciences … Cited by 1 Cite Save More

Supporting Learner Social Relationships with Enculturated Pedagogical Agents A Ogan – 2011 – reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu … productive learning behaviors when they believed there was a human driving the responses behind the instructional dialog system they were using. Additionally, Okita, Bailenson, and Schwartz (2008) found that students who … Related articles All 7 versions Cite Save More

Computational Terminology: Exploring Bilingual and Monolingual Term Extraction J Foo – 2012 – diva-portal.org Page 1. Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Thesis, No. 1523 Computational Terminology: Exploring Bilingual and Monolingual Term Extraction by Jody Foo Submitted to Linköping Institute of Technology at Linköping … Cited by 1 Related articles All 3 versions Cite Save

Conquering Data in Austria PIKT der Zukunft – bmvit.gv.at Page 1. Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie Lfd.Nr. IKT/01-2014 Conquering Data in Austria Technologie-Roadmap für das Programm IKT der Zukunft: Daten durchdringen – Intelligente Systeme Dr. Helmut … Cite Save More