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Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web

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Abstract

The diversity and distributed nature of the resources available in the semantic web poses significant challenges when these are used to help automatically build an ontology. One persistent and pervasive problem is that of the resolution or elimination of coreference that arises when more than one identifier is used to refer to the same resource. Tackling this problem is crucial for the referential integrity, and subsequently the quality of results, of any ontology-based knowledge service. We have built a coreference management service to be used alongside the population and maintenance of an ontology. An ontology based knowledge service that identifies communities of practice (CoPs) is also used to maintain the heuristics used in the coreference management system. This approach is currently being applied in a large scale experiment harvesting resources from various UK computer science departments with the aim of building a large, generic web-accessible ontology.

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    Harith Alani, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Nicholas Gibbins, Hugh Glaser, Steve Harris, Yannis Kalfoglou, Kieron O’Hara & Nigel Shadbolt

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Alani, H. et al. (2002). Managing Reference: Ensuring Referential Integrity of Ontologies for the Semantic Web. In: Gómez-Pérez, A., Benjamins, V.R. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management: Ontologies and the Semantic Web. EKAW 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2473. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45810-7_29

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