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Supporting Cooperative Consensus Formation via Ontologies

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In this paper, we propose the Discussion Board system to support the nebulous communication between the users who do not clearly express the concepts intended. This is achieved by indicating the conceptual differences between the users through the users’ direct creation of the concepts as ontologies and by showing other concepts obtained from World Wide Web.

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  1. The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan

    Kaoru Sumi & Riichiro Mizoguchi

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  1. Kaoru Sumi
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  1. Department of Systems and Information Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology, 460-1 Kamisadori-Cho, Maebashi-City, 371-0816, Japan

    Ning Zhong

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, S4S 0A2

    Yiju Yao

  3. Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, 224 Waterloo Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Jiming Liu

  4. Department of Information and Computer Science, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo Shinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, 169, Japan

    Setsuo Ohsuga

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Sumi, K., Mizoguchi, R. (2001). Supporting Cooperative Consensus Formation via Ontologies. In: Zhong, N., Yao, Y., Liu, J., Ohsuga, S. (eds) Web Intelligence: Research and Development. WI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2198. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45490-X_68

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