Produção Nacional
A Representação de Domínios de Conhecimento e uma Teoria de Representação: a ontologia de fundamentação
2011; UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5433/1981-8920.2011v16n2p140
ISSN1981-8920
AutoresMaria Luiza de Almeida Campos, Linair Maria Campos, Jackson da Silva Medeiros,
Tópico(s)Information Science and Libraries
ResumoThe need to provide information in an unambiguous and effective way has motivated the increasing use of ontologies, whose formalism allows greater precision inmodels of information representation. In this scenario, foundational ontologies have a leading role in defining formally free-domain concepts, and provide a solid theoretical foundation to support the building of domain-specific vocabularies. The understanding of the concepts formalized in foundational ontologies with philosophical basis, must be appropriated by the information scientist, in order to enable him to act in this new scenario, where the representation of information should be directed not onlyfor human understanding, but also for its computational treatment, by using inferences. The purpose of this paper is to present some of these notions contained in the foundational ontology UFO-A, and illustrate, with an example, the semantic differential of a model underpinned by such ontology, in contrast to what could be represented using a thesaurus.
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