A Sideways Look at Upper Ontologies - School of Computing and Information Science

Published: Sep 25, 2014 Author(s): Chui, Carmen, Gruninger, Michael, Hahmann, Torsten, Katsumi, Megan Abstract: This paper explores an alternative vision for upper ontologies which is more effective at facilitating the sharability and reusability of ontologies. The notion of generic ontologies is characterized through the formalization of ontological commitments and choices. Ontology repositories are used to modularize ontologies so that any read more