TOWARDS A GENERAL TEMPORAL ONTOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION

Yi Qiang, Femke Reitsma, Nico Van de Weghe

2009

Abstract

Practically, temporal information is related to every aspect of our world. A temporal ontology may effectively negotiate the meanings between different time concepts. Though some temporal ontologies have been developed, their uses are still narrow and cannot apply into a broader range of knowledge domains. Our work aims to develop a general ontology of time which can negotiate the heterogeneities in different time conceptualizations. It is not only a framework for annotating everyday temporal terms on the Web but also lays a foundation for knowledge infrastructures with more domain-specific time concepts.

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in Harvard Style

Qiang Y., Reitsma F. and Weghe N. (2009). TOWARDS A GENERAL TEMPORAL ONTOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 275-280. DOI: 10.5220/0002307402750280


in Bibtex Style

@conference{keod09,
author={Yi Qiang and Femke Reitsma and Nico Van de Weghe},
title={TOWARDS A GENERAL TEMPORAL ONTOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={275-280},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002307402750280},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - TOWARDS A GENERAL TEMPORAL ONTOLOGY FOR KNOWLEDGE INTEGRATION
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Qiang Y.
AU - Reitsma F.
AU - Weghe N.
PY - 2009
SP - 275
EP - 280
DO - 10.5220/0002307402750280