Au Yeung Ching Man. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 97-110). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Semantic Web and Ontologies --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivations --- p.5 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Fuzziness of Concepts --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Typicality of Objects --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Context and Its Effect on Reasoning --- p.8 / Chapter 1.3 --- Objectives --- p.9 / Chapter 1.4 --- Contributions --- p.10 / Chapter 1.5 --- Structure of the Thesis --- p.11 / Chapter 2 --- Background Study --- p.13 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Semantic Web --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- Ontologies --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3 --- Description Logics --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4 --- Fuzzy Set Theory --- p.23 / Chapter 2.5 --- Concepts and Categorization in Cognitive Psychology --- p.25 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Theory of Concepts --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- Goodness of Example versus Degree of Typicality --- p.28 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Similarity between Concepts --- p.29 / Chapter 2.5.4 --- Context and Context Effects --- p.31 / Chapter 2.6 --- Handling of Uncertainty in Ontologies and Description Logics --- p.33 / Chapter 2.7 --- Typicality in Models for Knowledge Representation --- p.35 / Chapter 2.8 --- Semantic Similarity in Ontologies and the Semantic Web --- p.39 / Chapter 2.9 --- Contextual Reasoning --- p.41 / Chapter 3 --- A Formal Model of Ontology --- p.44 / Chapter 3.1 --- Rationale --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2 --- Concepts --- p.47 / Chapter 3.3 --- Characteristic Vector and Property Vector --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4 --- Subsumption of Concepts --- p.49 / Chapter 3.5 --- Likeliness of an Individual in a Concept --- p.51 / Chapter 3.6 --- Prototype Vector and Typicality --- p.54 / Chapter 3.7 --- An Example --- p.59 / Chapter 3.8 --- Similarity between Concepts --- p.61 / Chapter 3.9 --- Context and Contextualization of Ontology --- p.65 / Chapter 3.9.1 --- Formal Definitions --- p.67 / Chapter 3.9.2 --- Contextualization of an Ontology --- p.69 / Chapter 3.9.3 --- "Contextualized Subsumption Relations, Likeliness, Typicality and Similarity" --- p.71 / Chapter 4 --- Discussions and Analysis --- p.73 / Chapter 4.1 --- Properties of the Formal Model for Fuzzy Ontologies --- p.73 / Chapter 4.2 --- Likeliness and Typicality --- p.78 / Chapter 4.3 --- Comparison between the Proposed Model and Related Works --- p.81 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Comparison with Traditional Ontology Models --- p.81 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Comparison with Fuzzy Ontologies and DLs --- p.82 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Comparison with Ontologies modeling Typicality of Objects --- p.83 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Comparison with Ontologies modeling Context --- p.84 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Limitations of the Proposed Model --- p.85 / Chapter 4.4 --- "Significance of Modeling Likeliness, Typicality and Context in Ontologies" --- p.86 / Chapter 4.5 --- Potential Application of the Model --- p.88 / Chapter 4.5.1 --- Searching in the Semantic Web --- p.88 / Chapter 4.5.2 --- Benefits of the Formal Model of Ontology --- p.90 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusions and Future Work --- p.91 / Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusions --- p.91 / Chapter 5.2 --- Future Research Directions --- p.93 / Publications --- p.96 / Bibliography --- p.97
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325745 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Contributors | Au Yeung, Ching Man., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, ix, 110 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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