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What Is an Ontology?

Guarino, Nicola, Oberle, Daniel, Staab, Steffen·2009·Handbook on Ontologies
DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_0
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  • Ontologies serve as a means to formally model concepts from a specific domain by providing a detailed specification of entities, their properties, and their relations.

    “To achieve this, ontologies serve as a means to formally model concepts from a specific domain by providing a detailed specification of entities, their properties, and their relations (Guarino et al. 2009).”

    From AdaptUI: A Framework for the development of Adaptive User Interfaces in Smart Product-Service Systems (2024) · cites this paper as Guarino et al. 2009

  • The ontology aims to reduce the variability of tags and ensures that the classification of memories remains more consistent, allowing categorization and relation of memories to broader contexts.

    “The ontology aims to reduce the variability of tags and ensures that the classification of memories remains more consistent, allowing to categorize and relate memories to broader contexts [20].”

    From CAIM: Development and Evaluation of a Cognitive AI Memory Framework for Long-Term Interaction with Intelligent Agents (2026) · cites this paper as [20]

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Authors
Guarino, N., Oberle, D., & Staab, S.
Affiliations
  • National Research Council (IT)
  • University of Koblenz and Landau (DE)
Corresponding author
Guarino, Nicola
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Venue
Handbook on Ontologies
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published
2009
Pages
1-17
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-92673-3_0
OpenAlex
W153886719
Cited by
1,244
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
66.90
Type
book chapter
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (unspecified)
Locations
Springer eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Semantic Web and Ontologies
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Keywords
ontology (information science), computational ontology, conceptualization, knowledge engineering

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