Designing and Implementing an Ontology for Logic and Linguistics
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Correspondence: Caterina Caracciolo, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: caterina{at}science.uva.nl
This article reports on the design and implementation of a domain-specific, manually built ontology, as a scaffolding for the electronic publication of and access to scientific handbooks. The ontology will provide access to the case study handbook (the Handbook of Logic and Language, van Benthem, J. and ter Meulen, A. (1997)) by means of semi-automatically detected links. The ontology's structure is given by a set of hierarchical relations plus two non-hierarchical relations introduced for navigational purposes. The main expected advantage of this way of providing access to the text consists in an enhanced browsing system, providing the user with an explicit map of the contents of the handbook. Moreover, by manually designing and populating the hierarchy, we expect a coherent representation of the domain and a good quality result. When designing and implementing the ontology, we put into practice some of the ideas and technologies already available from the Semantic Web. In the course of this study we describe the design and implementation of the ontology, and draw some preliminary conclusions about the feasibility of such an enterprise and its suitability to support reading in an electronic environment. Here we do not treat the issue of automatically generating links from the ontology to the text, which is currently a work in progress.
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