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With the current emergence of Cognitive Sciences and the development of Knowledge Management applications in Social and Human Sciences, Subjective Knowledge becomes an unavoidable subject and a real challenge, which must be integrated and developed in Ontology Engineering and Ontology-based Information Retrieval. This paper introduces a new approach dedicated to the Personalization of a Domain Ontology. Inspired by works in Cognitive Psychology, our work is based on a process which aims at capturing the user-sensitive degree of truth of the categorisation process, that is the one which is really perceived by the end-user. Practically, this process consists in decorating the Specialisation/Generalisation links (i.e. the ISA links) of the hierarchy of concepts with a specific gradient. As this gradient is defined according to the three aspects of the semiotic triangle (i.e. intensional, extensional and expressional dimension), we call it Semiotic-based Prototypicality Gradient. It enrichs the initial formal semantics of an ontology by adding a pragmatics defined according to a context of use which depends on parameters like culture, educational background and/or emotional context of the end-user.
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Aimé, X., Furst, F., Kuntz, P., Trichet, F. (2009). Ontology Personalization: An Approach Based on Conceptual Prototypicality. In: Chen, L., et al. Advances in Web and Network Technologies, and Information Management. APWeb WAIM 2009 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03996-6_19
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