Seminar: Knowledge Representation and Domain Ontologies

Winter term 2018/19

Helmut Horacek

Time and location: Mi. 16-18, room 001, bldg. E1.7

Begin: 17.10.2018 (First meeting and introduction)

No meetings on 14.11., 21.11., and 6.2.

Extra meeings will be scheduled if needed


Schedule

  • 24.10.18
    • Introduction

  • from 31.10.2018 on weekly presentations

    • Articles

    Introduction

  • R. Brachman et al. Reducing CLASSIC to Practice: Knowledge Representation Theory Meets Reality. Artificial Intelligence 114(1-2):203-237.
  • D. McGuiness. Ontologies Come of Age. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S171-194, MIT Press, 2003.
  • M. Uschold, M. Gruninger. Ontologies: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Knowledge Engineering Review 11(2):93-155, 1996.

    • Ontology Languages

  • M. Klein et al. Ontologies and Schema Languages on the Web. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S95-140, MIT Press, 2003. Also: http://www.ontoknowledge.org/oil
  • D. McGuiness et al. DAML-ONT: An Ontology Language for the Semantic Web. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S65-94, MIT Press, 2003. Also: http://www.daml.org
  • R. Fikes, D. McGuiness. An Axiomatic Semantic for RDF, RDF Schema, and DAML+OIL. Technical Report KSL-0-01, Stanford University, 2001. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/daml-semantics/abstract-axiomatic-semantics.html
  • S. Bechhofer et al. DAMO+OIL is not Enough. http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/full/paper40.pdf.
  • I. Horrocks et al. OWL Rules: A Proposal and Prototype Implementation. Journal of Web Semantics 3, 1, July 2005, pages 23-40.

    • Top-Level Ontologies

  • N. Guarino. Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proc. of FOIS'98, Guarino (ed.), pp. 3-15, IOS Press, 1998.
  • N. Guarino, C. Welty. Identity, Unity and Individuality: Towards a Formal Toolkit for Ontological Analysis. Proc. of ECAI 2000, Horn (ed.), pp. 219-223, IOS Press, 2000.
  • Tian Wen, Gu Fang, Cao Cungen, Designing a Top-Level Ontology of Human Beings: A Multi-Perspective Approach J. Comput. Sci. /& Technology, Vol. 17, No. 5, 2002
  • Niles, I. und A. Pease. Towards a Standard Upper Ontology. In: C. Welty und B. Smith (Hrsg.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS-2001). Ogunquit, Maine. Vgl. http://projects.teknowledge.com/HPKB/Publications/FOIS.pdf
  • B. Smith. Basic Concepts of Formal Ontologies. Proc. of FOIS'98, Guarino (ed.), pp. 302-316, IOS Press, 1998.
  • L. Schneider. How to Build a Foundational Ontology. In KI 2003, A. Günter et al. (eds.), S120-134, Springer LNAI 2821, 2003.
  • Stefan Schulz, Elena Beiwanger, Udo Hahn, Joachim Wermter, Holger Stenzhorn and Anand Kumar From GENIA to BioTop - Towards a top-level Ontology for Biology in Proc. of the Internat. Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Baltimore, USA, November 2006
  • Piet Vossen, Isa Maks, Roxane Segers, Hennie van der Viet D03 Top-level ontology, relation constraints and assignments STE05039 project report, 2008
  • Riichiro Mizoguchi. YAMATO: Yet Another More Advanced Top-level Ontology. Draft version, December 2010
  • Example Top level ontologies: DOLCE, Sowa's Ontology, SUMO, etc.
  • Francesca Quattri, Adam Peas,e John P. Mc Crae, Default Physical Measurements in SUMO, Zock/Rapp/Huang (eds.): Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, pages 138–143, Dublin, Ireland, August 23, 2014

    • Ontologies for Natural Language Processing

  • PANGLOSS K. Knight, S. Luk. Building a Large Knowlegde Base for Machine Translation. Proc. AAAI-94, S773-778, 1994.
  • E. Hovy. Combining and Standardizing Large-Scale, Practical Ontologies for machine Translation and Other Uses. In Proc. LREC, 1998. http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec98/ceres.ugr.es/_rubio/elra/program.html
  • Andrew Philpot and Eduard Hovy and Patrick Pantel. The omega ontology. Proceedings of Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM-05). Santa Barbara, CA. 2005
  • Beale, S.; Nirenburg, S. and Mahesh, K. 1995. Semantic Analysis in the Mikrokosmos Machine Translation Project. In Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Natural Language Processing, 297-307. Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Kavi Mahesh and Sergei Nirenburg. 1996. Meaning Representation for Knowledge sharing in Practical Machine Translation. In Proc. Florida Articial Intelligence Research Symposium, FLAIRS-96, Special Track on Information Interchange, May 19-22, 1996, Key West, FL.
  • Okumura A. and Hovy E. H. (1994) Lexicon-to-Ontology Concept Association using a Bilingual Dictionary. In Proceedings of first AMTA Conference, Columbia, MD.
  • Hirst G., Ontology and the Lexicon. In Staab, Steffen and Studer, Rudi (eds) Handbook on Ontologies in Information Systems, Berlin: Springer, 2003.
  • CYC (http://www.cyc.com)
  • WordNet (http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn)
  • Smith, Barry & Fellbaum, Christine: Medical WordNet: A New Methodology for the Construction and Validation of Information Resources for Consumer Health. Proceedings of Coling 2004. pp: 371-382
  • Rolf Schwitter. Creating and Querying Linguistically Motivated Ontologies. Knowledge Representation Ontology Workshop (KROW 2008), Sydney, Australia. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT), Vol. 90. Thomas Meyer and Mehmet A. Orgun, Eds
  • Jeffrey Cua, Ethel Ong, Ruli Manurung, Adam Pease. Representing Story Plans in SUMO. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity, pages 40-48, Los Angeles, California, June 2010
  • James Mayfield, Tim Finin. Evaluating the Quality of a Knowledge Base Populated from Text. Proc. of the Joint Workshop on Automatic Knowledge Base Construction & Web-scale Knowledge Extraction (AKBC-WEKEX), pages 68-73, NAACL-HLT, Montreal, Canada, June 7-8, 2012
  • Allan Third. Hidden semantics: what can we learn from the names in an ontology?. INLG 2012 Proceedings of the 7th International Natural Language Generation Confererence, pages 67-75, Utica, May 2012
  • Terry Joyce, Bor Hodoscek, Constructing an Ontology of Japanese Lexical Properties: Specifying its Property Structures and Lexical Entries, Zock/Rapp/Huang (eds.): Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, pages 174-185, Dublin, Ireland, August 23, 2014.
  • Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Christian Willms, Extending OWL Ontologies by Cartesian Types to Represent N-ary Relations in Natural Language, 2015.
  • Agata Cybulska, Piek Vossen, Translating Granularity of Event Slots into Features for Event Coreference Resolution, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on EVENTS at the NAACL-HLT 2015, pages 1-10, Denver, Colorado, June 4, 2015.
  • James Allen, Will de Beaumont, Lucian Galescu, Choh Man Teng, Complex Event Extraction using DRUM, 2015.
  • Aikaterini-Lida Kalouli, Richard Crouch, GKR: the Graphical Knowledge Representation for semantic parsing. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Semantics beyond Events and Roles (SemBEaR-2018), pages 27-37 New Orleans, Louisiana, June 5, 2018.
  • Rachel Wities et al. A Consolidated Open Knowledge Representation for Multiple Texts. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Linking Models of Lexical, Sentential and Discourse-level Semantics, pages 12-24.

    • Building Ontologies

  • N. Noy, D. McGuiness. Ontology Development 101: A Guide to Creating Your First Ontology. http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontology-tutorial-noy-mcguiness-abstract.html.
  • W. Grosso et al. Knowledge Modeling at the Millenium (The Design and Evoluation of the Protege-2000). Proc KAW-99, 1999. http://smi-web.stanford.edu/pubs/SMI_Abstracts/SMI-1999-0801.html
  • N. Noy et al. One Size Does Fit All: Acquiring Semantic Web Content with Protege-2000. IEEE Intelligent Systems 16(2):60-71,2001.
  • S. Handschuh et al. CREAM - Creating relational metadata with a component-based, ontology-driven annotation framework. http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/full/paper4.pdf.
  • A. Maedche et al. SEmantic portAL: The SEAL Approach. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S317-359, MIT Press, 2003.
  • Philipp Cimiano, Johanna Voelker. Text2Onto - A Framework for Ontology Learning and Data-driven Change Discovery (http://www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/jvo/publications/Text2Onto_nldb_2005.pdf)
  • Philipp Cimiano, Uwe Reyle Towards Foundational Semantics in Proc. of the Internat. Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Baltimore, USA, November 2006
  • John F. Sowa A Dynamic Theory of Ontology in Proc. of the Internat. Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Baltimore, USA, November 2006
  • Farquhar et al. The Ontolingua Server: A Tool for Collaborative Ontology Construction. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 46:707-728.
  • Barry Smith. Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development in Proc. of the Internat. Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006), Baltimore, USA, November 2006
  • Sara Salem, Samir AbdelRahman. A Multiple-Domain Ontology Builder. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling2010 ),pages 967-975, Beijing, August 2010
  • Carmen Klaussner,Desislava Zhekova. Lexico-Syntactic Patterns for Automatic Ontology Building. Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop associated with RANLP 2011, pages 109-114, Hissar, Bulgaria, 13 September 2011
  • S. Thanker et al. Complex Relationships for the Semantic Web. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S279-316, MIT Press, 2003.

    • Ontologies and the Semantic Web

  • Y. Sure et al. OntoEdit: Collabroative Ontology Development for the Semantic Web. Proc. Int. Semantic Web Conference, 2002.
  • J. Pan, I. Horrocks. Metamodeling Architecture of Web Ontology Languages. SWWS'01 Emerging Seamntic Web: Selected Papers from the semantic web Symposium. http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~horrocks/Publications/download/2001/rdfsfa.pdf
  • D. McDermott et al. Overcoming Ontology Mismatches in Transactions with Self-Describing Agents. Emerging Seamntic Web: Selected Papers from the semantic web Symposium. http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/McDermottEtal02.pdf

    • Mediating between Ontologies

  • McGuiness et al. An Environment for Merging and Testing Large Ontologies. In Proc. of International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR-2000), S483-493, 2000.
  • atalya Fridman Noy and Mark Musen An Algorithm for Merging and Aligning Ontologies: Automation and Tool Support
  • A. Maedche et al. MAFRA - A MApping FRAmework for Distributed Ontologies in the Semantic Web. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~borys/events/ktsw2002.pdf.
  • S. Decker et al. Ontobroker: Ontology-based access to distributed and semi-structured information. In Database Semantics: Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems, Meersman et al. (eds), S351-369, Kluwer.
  • S. Prasad et al. Using Explicit Information to Map Between Two Ontologies. 1st Int. Conf. on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. http://umbc.edu/~finin/papers/oas02.
  • B. Omelayenko et al. UPML: The Language and Tool Support for Making the Semantic Web Alive. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S141-169, MIT Press, 2003.
  • P. Mitra et al. A Scalable Framework for the Interoperation of Information Sources. http://www.semanticweb.org/SWWS/program/full/paper51.pdf.
  • S. Reed, D. Lenat. Mapping Ontologies into Cyc. AAAI-2002 Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web. http://reliant.teknowledge.com/AAAI-2002/Reed.pdf.
  • Davide Fossati, Gabriele Ghidoni, Barbara Di Eugenio, Isabel Cruz, Huiyong Xiao and Rajen Subba - The problem of ontology alignment on the web: a first report 2nd Web as Corpus Workshop In conjunction with the 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Trento, Italy April 3, 2006
  • Lucy Lu Wang, Chandra Bhagavatula, Mark Neumann, Kyle Lo, Chris Wilhelm, and Waleed Ammar, Ontology Alignment in the Biomedical Domain Using Entity Definitions and Context. Proceedings of the BioNLP 2018 workshop, pages 47-55 Melbourne, Australia, July 19, 2018

    Applications

  • A. Valente et al. Building and (Re)Using an Ontology of Air Campaigns Planning. IEEE Intelligent Systems 14(2):27-36, 1999.
  • D. McGuiness. Ontologies and Online Commerce. IEEE Intelligent Systems 16(1):8-14, 2001 http://www.ksl.stanford.edu/people/dlm/papers/ontologies-and-online-commerce-abstract.html.
  • D. McGuiness. Ontological Issues for Knowledge-Enhanced Search. Proc. of FOIS'98, Guarino (ed.), S302-316, IOS Press, 1998.
  • Robert Stevens, Carole A. Goble and Sean Bechhofer, Ontology-based knowledge representation for bioinformatics. Briefings in Bioinformatics Vol. 1 No. 4, 398-414, November 2000.
  • J. Heflin et al. SHOE: A Blueprint for the Semantic Web. In Spinning the Semantic Web, Fensel et al. (eds.), S29-63, MIT Press, 2003.
  • R. Fikes, Q. Zou. A Reusable Time Ontology. AAAI-2002 Workshop on Ontologies and the Semantic Web. http://reliant.teknowledge.com/AAAI-2002/Fikes.doc.
  • Hui Yang. Constructing Task-Specific Taxonomies for Document Collection Browsing. Proceedings of the 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, pages 1278-1289, Jeju Island, Korea, 12-14 July 2012
  • Shourya Roy, L V Subramaniam Automatic Generation of Domain Models for Call-Centers from Noisy Transcriptions. The joint conference of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics and the Association for Computational Linguistics(ACL-COLING), 2006, Sydney, Australlia
  • Ricardo de Almeida Falbo, Monalessa Perini Barcellos, Julio Cesar Nardi, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Organizing Ontology Design Patterns as Ontology Pattern Languages, 2011.
  • Wei Wang, Suparna De, Gilbert Cassar, Klaus Moessner, Knowledge Representation in the Internet of Things: Semantic Modelling and its Applications.
  • Jung-jae Kim Xu Han, Vivian Lee, Dietrich Rebholz-Schumann, GRO Task: Populating the Gene Regulation Ontology with events and relations , Proceedings of the BioNLP Shared Task 2013 Workshop, pages 50-57, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 9 2013.
  • Zeheng Li, Mingrui Chen, LiGuo Huang, Vincent Ng. Recovering Traceability Links in Requirements Documents, roceedings of the 19th Conference on Computational Language Learning, pages 237-246, Beijing, China, July 30-31, 2015.
  • Yohei Murakami, Takao Nakaguchi, Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida, An Ontology for Language Service Composability. Proceedings of WLSI/OIAF4HLT.
  • Susan Windisch Brown, Claire Bonial, Leo Obrst, and Martha Palmer, The Rich Event Ontology. Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop, pages 87-97,
  • Roxane Segers and Tommaso Caselli and Piek Vossen, The Circumstantial Event Ontology (CEO). Proceedings of the Events and Stories in the News Workshop, pages 37-41,
  • Claire Bonial, David Tahmoush, Susan Windisch Brown, and Martha Palmer, Multimodal Use of an Upper-Level Event Ontology. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Events: Definition, Detection, Coreference, and Representation, pages 18-26, San Diego, California, June 17, 2016.
  • Andon Tchechmedjiev, Clement Jonquet, Enrichment of French Biomedical Ontologies with UMLS Concepts and Semantic Types for Biomedical Named Entity Recognition Though Ontological Semantic Annotation. 2017.

    • Prerequisites/remarks

    Joint lecture computer science/computational linguistics

    Certificates

    Presentation, contribution to discussions, written summary

    Credit points

    Kleiner CoLi-Schein (Diplom): 2 CP (presentation only);
    Grosser CoLi-Schein (Diplom): 4 CP (presentation and homework);
    CoLi (BSc/Ma): 4 CP (presentation only);
    CoLi (BSc/Ma): 7 CP (presentation and homework);
    Computer science: 9 CP (presentation and homework)

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