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Representing and reasoning over mereotopological relations (parthood and location) in an ontology is a well-known challenge, because there are many relations to choose from and OWL has limited expressiveness in this regard. To address these issues, we ...

The Music Ontology provides a framework for publishing structured music-related data on the Web, ranging from editorial data to temporal annotations of audio signals. It has been used extensively, for example in the DBTune project and on the BBC Music ...

We present a survey of the current state of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) vocabularies on the Web. Candidate vocabularies were gathered through collections and web crawling, with 478 identified as complying to a given definition of a SKOS ...

The linguistics community is building a metadata-based infrastructure for the description of its research data and tools. At its core is the ISOcat registry, a collaborative platform to hold a (to be standardized) set of data categories (i.e., field ...

This paper proposes SCHEMA, an algorithm for automated mapping between heterogeneous product taxonomies in the e-commerce domain. SCHEMA utilises word sense disambiguation techniques, based on the ideas from the algorithm proposed by Lesk, in ...

This paper explores the issue of detecting concepts for ontology learning from text. Using our tool OntoCmaps, we investigate various metrics from graph theory and propose voting schemes based on these metrics. The idea draws its root in social choice ...