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A Description Logic Based Knowledge Representation Model for Concept Understanding

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This research employs Description Logics in order to focus on logical description and analysis of the phenomenon of ‘concept understanding’. The article will deal with a formal-semantic model for figuring out the underlying logical assumptions of ‘concept understanding’ in knowledge representation systems. In other words, it attempts to describe a theoretical model for concept understanding and to reflect the phenomenon of ‘concept understanding’ in terminological knowledge representation systems. Finally, it will design an ontology that schemes the structure of concept understanding based on the proposed semantic model.

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  1. Center for Computer-mediated Epistemology, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, 9000, Aalborg, Denmark

    Farshad Badie

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  1. Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  2. University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

    Ana Paula Rocha

  3. INSTICC, Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Setubal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

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Badie, F. (2018). A Description Logic Based Knowledge Representation Model for Concept Understanding. In: van den Herik, J., Rocha, A., Filipe, J. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10839. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93581-2_1

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