Kommunikative Erzeugung, Darstellung und Anwendungen Offener Ontologien und Offener Wissensbasen
Final Report Abstract
The research project "Communicative Acquisition, Representation and Evolution of Open Ontologies and Open Knowledge Bases" (Open Ontologies and Open Knowledge Bases for short) focused on foundational and formal approaches to the acquisition, evolution, representation and integration of communicatively (i.e., socially) generated semantically heterogeneous knowledge in open information environments like Social Software (such as Weblogs and social networking sites), the Semantic Web, Enterprise Knowledge Managementsystems, MultiagentSystems, and Peer2Peer networks. In contrast to traditional approaches to knowledge and ontology acquisition, integration and sharing, which emphasize homogeneity and consensus finding, the formal and technical framework developed in this project allows for the co-existence, probabilistic weighting, comparison and evolution of heterogeneous individual and social viewpoints (for example, conflicting opinions) on the semantic level and in multiple levels of complexity reduction while integrating and aggregating. Formal means developed for the formal representation of Open Ontologies and Open Knowledge Bases allow to incorporate meta-knowledge about social contexts of knowledge generation and usage, and knowledge and ontologies derived from communication processes, whereby both direct/synchronous communication and implicit/asynchronous communication (e.g., semantic interrelations of different web sites) are supported.
Publications
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B. Gaudou, A. Herzig, D. Longin, M. Nickles. A New Semantics for the FIPA Agent Communication Language based on Social Attitudes. In Gerhard Brewka, Silvia Coradeschi, Anna Perini, Paolo Traverso (eds.): Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), IDS Press, 2006.
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F. Fischer, M. Nickles. Computational Opinions. In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-06), 2006.
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M. Nickles, A. Pease, A. C. Schalley, D. Zaefferer. Ontologies Across the Disciplines. In A. Schalley, D. Zaefferer (eds.): Ontolinguistics. Mouton de Gruyter, 2006.
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M. Nickles, F. Fischer, G. Weiss. Communication Attitudes: A Formal Approach to Ostensible Intentions, and Individual and Group Opinions. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Logic and Communication in Multi-Agent Systems (LCMAS) @ IJCAI'05, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
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M. Nickles, R. Cobos. Social Contexts and the Probabilistic Fusion and Ranking of Opinions: Towards a Social Semantics for the Semantic Web. Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web (URSW-06) @ ISWC-06, 2006.
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M. Nickles, T. Froehner, G. Weiss. Social Annotation of Semantically Heterogeneous Knowledge. Notes of The 4rd International Workshop on Knowledge Markup and Semantic Annotation (SemAnnot) @ ISWC'04, Hiroshima, Japan, 2004.
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M. Nickles, T. Froehner, R. Cobos Perez, G. Weiss. Multi-Source Knowledge Bases and Ontologies with Multiple Individual and Social Viewpoints. In Proceedings of The 2005 IEEE/W1C/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (Wl'05), IEEE Computer Society Press, 2005.
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M. Nickles. Modeling Social Attitudes on the Web. In Proceedings of the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-06), 2006.
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T. Froehner, M. Nickles, G. Weiss, W. Brauer, R. Franken. Integration of Ontologies and Knowledge from Distributed Autonomous Sources. In U. Furbach (Ed.), Journal Künstliche Intelligenz (Kl), Special Issue on Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Management, 2005.
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T. Froehner, M. Nickles, G. Weiss. Open Ontologies - The Need for Modeling Heterogeneous Knowledge. Proceedings of The 2004 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering IKE'04, Las Vegas, 2004.
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T. Froehner, M. Nickles, G.Weiss. Towards Modeling the Social Layer of Emergent Knowledge Using Open Ontologies. Proceedings of The ECAI 2004 Workshop on Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management (AMKM), Valencia, Spain, 2004.
