Merging the DOLCE and PSL Upper Ontologies

Carmen Chui, Michael Grüninger

2014

Abstract

In this paper, we examine the relationships between the axiomatization of participation in two upper ontologies, the Process Specification Language (PSL) and the Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering (DOLCE).We discuss the obstacles faced to formalize the relationships between these ontologies and provide an overview of the methodology undertaken to merge the ontologies together. We introduce new ontologies that serve to bridge the PSL and DOLCE ontologies together to allow us to specify the mappings between them. We illustrate how ontology verification is used to show faithful interpretations between the two upper ontologies.

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Chui C. and Grüninger M. (2014). Merging the DOLCE and PSL Upper Ontologies . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-049-9, pages 16-26. DOI: 10.5220/0005027100160026


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@conference{keod14,
author={Carmen Chui and Michael Grüninger},
title={Merging the DOLCE and PSL Upper Ontologies},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={16-26},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005027100160026},
isbn={978-989-758-049-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2014)
TI - Merging the DOLCE and PSL Upper Ontologies
SN - 978-989-758-049-9
AU - Chui C.
AU - Grüninger M.
PY - 2014
SP - 16
EP - 26
DO - 10.5220/0005027100160026