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Formalizing User Actions for Ontologies

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Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2004)

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We demonstrate an approach to the formalization of user actions in the human-computer interaction literature [18]. for the purpose of producing task-oriented ontologies. Verbs and nouns are extracted from a document that depicts user actions during a surface water monitoring process. The conceptual structure of the user actions is formalized through a combination of Formal Concept Analysis and Entailment theory. The subconcept-superconcept relations between user actions in a concept lattice are refined through the entailments of troponymy, proper inclusion, and backward presupposition. The approach is intended to strengthen the consideration of user tasks in ontology engineering for geographic information applications. We aim to enhance the context specification in semantic similarity assessments with action lattices.

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  1. Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, D-48149, Muenster, Germany

    Keanhuat Soon & Werner Kuhn

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  1. National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis and Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Boardman Hall, ME 04469-5711, Orono, USA

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  2. SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Bibliothekstr. 1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

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  3. University of Utah, 84112-9155, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Harvey J. Miller

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Soon, K., Kuhn, W. (2004). Formalizing User Actions for Ontologies. In: Egenhofer, M.J., Freksa, C., Miller, H.J. (eds) Geographic Information Science. GIScience 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30231-5_20

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