Authors:
Carla Pereira
1
;
Cristóvão Sousa
2
and
António Lucas Soares
3
Affiliations:
1
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto; Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Felgueiras, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal
;
2
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto, Portugal
;
3
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Domain conceptualisation, Social construction of meaning, Ontology development, Collaborative networks, Conceptual blending.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Design Methodology and Cognitive Factors in Design
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
A case study involving a new method to support the collaborative construction of semantic artefacts in an inter-organizational context is described. The method aims at being applied, in particular, in the early phases of ontology development. We share the view that the development of semantic artefacts in collaborative networks of organizations should be based on a continuous construction of meaning, rather than pursuing the delivery of highly formalized accounts of domains. For that, our research is directed to the application of cognitive semantics results, specifically by developing and extending the Conceptual Blending Theory to cope with the socio-cognitive aspects of inter-organizational ontology development. An evaluation experiment for this method is accomplished in the scope of a large European project in the area of industrial engineering. The method evaluation and its results are described.