Author:
Iaakov Exman
Affiliation:
The Jerusalem College of Engineering – JCE Azrieli, Israel
Keyword(s):
Opinion-Ontologies, Subjective, Sharp, Tweetable, Recommendation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications and Case-studies
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Artificial Intelligence
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Collaboration and e-Services
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Data Engineering
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e-Business
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Enterprise Information Systems
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Information Integration
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Integration/Interoperability
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Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
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Knowledge Representation
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Knowledge-Based Systems
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Ontologies and the Semantic Web
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Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Opinion-Ontology is a short and sharp tweetable recommendation conceptualization which can be actually sent in a message. But, one should ask in which sense is this a true ontology? On the one hand, it does not represent the common vocabulary or the shared meanings of a domain, as it is subjective. On the other hand, it does contain a semantic structure, which in spite of being subjective enables making inferences and taking rational decisions in practical situations. These are demonstrated by case studies with several examples of booking a table in a restaurant or a room in a hotel in previously unvisited places. The proposed characteristics of opinion-ontologies – efficient information transmission and integration with similar opinion-ontologies without expanding their sizes – can be and we actually intend to implement in a software system, to enable testing in practice, the whole approach.