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An Anthropological Approach to the Discovery of Ontologies in Multi-agent Societies

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We presented our approach to ascription of intensional ontologies to societies of agents at UKMAS-99. The idea of an intensional ontologies is based on a pragmatic theory of intensionality. The work we presented included a mechanism for retrieving taxonomical relations from the intensional ontologies. Both the process of ascription of ontologies and the retrieval of taxonomical relations were inspired by work on cultural anthropology. These ideas were formalised using a framework for the specification of agent theories based on the Z language. This paper reviews the main ideas of that work and introduces a new application: extracting ontologies from text corpora.

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  1. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), CP 15064, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

    Rafael H. Bordini

  2. Centro de Ciências Exatas e Centro de Ciências da Comunicação, Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS), CP 275, CEP 93022-000, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil

    Renata Vieira

  3. Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    John A. Campbell

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  1. Cavendish School of Computer Science, University of Westminster, 9-18 Euston Centre, London, NW1 3ET, UK

    Mark d’Inverno

  2. Department of Computer Science, Southampton University, Southampton, S017 1BJ, UK

    Michael Luck

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZF, UK

    Michael Fisher

  4. Hewlett-Packard laboratories Bristol, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS12 6QZ, UK

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Bordini, R.H., Vieira, R., Campbell, J.A. (2002). An Anthropological Approach to the Discovery of Ontologies in Multi-agent Societies. In: d’Inverno, M., Luck, M., Fisher, M., Preist, C. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45634-1_7

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