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[1] From: Michael Piotrowski
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.398: non-hierarchical concept ontologies? (32)
[2] From: Bill Benzon
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.398: non-hierarchical concept ontologies? (74)
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Date: 2019-11-13 12:43:00+00:00
From: Michael Piotrowski
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.398: non-hierarchical concept ontologies?
Dear Chris,
On 2019-11-12, Jan Christoph Meister (jan-c-meister@uni-hamburg.de) wrote:
> Against this backdrop I'd like to ask whether HUMANIST readers could
> point me to philosophical as well as CS approaches - literature,
> projects, etc. - that reflect on the philosophical as well as the
> computational affordances and constraints of concept ontologies that
> might be anything but hierarchically ordered: e.g. networked,
> distributional, probabilistic, etc.
You’re probably already aware of it, but just in case: in CS there’s
quite a bit work on analyzing folksonomies, relating them to ontologies,
as well as on ontology induction from folksonomies and on vocabulary
consolidation:
(https://dl.acm.org/results.cfm?query=folksonomies)
While this is not exactly what you’re looking for, but if you’re looking
for something between the two extremes, there may be some interesting
starting points.
Cordially
--
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Piotrowski
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Date: 2019-11-13 11:04:40+00:00
From: Bill Benzon
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.398: non-hierarchical concept ontologies?
Dear Chris:
As you most likely know this business of computational ontologies dates back to
the era of so-called symbolic computation in AI and cognitive science. Back then
I took a particular interest in ontological structures based on the Great Chain
of Being. It soon became obvious to me, however, that we often operate with
multiple ontologies over the same set of objects. Here's a working paper were
I discuss the underlying logic of ontological structure and conclude with a
discussion of multiple intersecting ontologies. Each of those ontologies may be
hierarchical in form but the fact of their intersection means that the overall
ontology has a more complex structure.
Ontology in Knowledge Representation:
At Academia.edu:
https://www.academia.edu/238610/Ontology_in_Knowledge_Representation
At SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1508554
Bill Benzon
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 3:29 AM, Humanist wrote:
>
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 398.
> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
> Hosted by King's Digital Lab
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> Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
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>
>
> Date: 2019-11-12 12:41:17+00:00
> From: Jan Christophe Meister
> Subject: Non-hierarchical concept ontologies
>
> Dear All,
[snip]
> Against this backdrop I'd like to ask whether HUMANIST readers could
> point me to philosophical as well as CS approaches - literature,
> projects, etc. - that reflect on the philosophical as well as the
> computational affordances and constraints of concept ontologies that
> might be anything but hierarchically ordered: e.g. networked,
> distributional, probabilistic, etc.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
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