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Spatial semantics for concepts?

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2013
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Özçep, Özgür Lütfü  
Möller, Ralf  
Institut
Softwaresysteme E-16  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/6047
First published in
CEUR workshop proceedings  
Number in series
1014
Start Page
816
End Page
828
Citation
CEUR Workshop Proceedings (1014): 816-828 (2013)
Contribution to Conference
DL 2013, 26th International Workshop on Description Logics  
Publisher
RWTH Aachen
Finding concepts that are similar to a given concept can prove useful in constructing user-friendly interfaces for querying DL-ontologies - the concrete use case being a query answering system with an enhanced user interface that suggests semantically relevant keywords (based on concept similarity) during query formulation. Most investigations on the similarity of concepts rely on ad-hoc and non-robust constructions referring to syntactical relationships in the concept hierarchy. A more promising approach to concept similarity is first to ground the concepts in a topological, geometrical, or more generally a spatial semantics and then to use the corresponding proximity or nearness relations provided by the spatial semantics for deciding concept similarity. Such an approach would not only describe a semantical justification for similarity of concepts but also provide a more cognitive semantics in the style of Gärdenfors conceptual spaces that advance the comprehension by non-professional users of DL-systems. This paper discusses some possible directions for a spatially oriented semantics for DLs, starting off from conceptual spaces and the region connection calculus.
Subjects
Cognitive semantics
Concept similarity
Conceptual space
Region connection calculus
DDC Class
004: Informatik
510: Mathematik
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