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Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design

Publications

Natural language analysis for semantic document modeling

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To ease the retrieval of documents published on the Web, the documents should be classified in a way that...

Supporting ontological analysis of taxonomic relationships

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Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial structural information, and are typically the key elements...

An object-oriented operation-based approach to translation between MOF metaschemas

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This paper proposes a new approach to the schema translation problem. We deal with schemas whose metaschemas are instances...

How to structure and access XML documents with ontologies

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The current hype on Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) produced hundreds of XML-based applications. Many of them o€er document type...

Part-whole relations in object-centered systems: An overview

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Knowledge bases, data bases and object-oriented systems (referred to in the paper as Object-Centered systems) all rely on attributes...

An integrated, dual learner for grammars and ontologies

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We introduce a dual-use methodology for automating the maintenance and growth of two types of knowledge sources, which are...

Enriching the class diagram concepts to capture natural language semantics for database access

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Research on accessing databases using natural languages usually utilizes an intermediate logical form for the mapping process from natural...

Scheduling ontology development projects

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In the ontology engineering field, key aspects of real-world business contexts are not normally taken into account. One of...

Extracting conceptual relationships from specialized documents

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Conceptual modeling has been fundamental to the management of structured data. However, its value is increasingly being recognized for...

Automated ontology construction for unstructured text documents

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Ontology is playing an increasingly important role in knowledge management and the Semantic Web. This study presents a novel...