Academic Articles & Research Papers

Applications of Ontologies in Software Engineering

The emerging field of semantic web technologies promises new stimulus for Software Engineering research. However, since the underlying concepts of the semantic web have a long tradition in the knowledge engineering field, it is sometimes ha...

Ontologies and Software Engineering

Anthropology of Ontologies

The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in Elizabeth Povinelli's formulation, “symptomatic” and “diagnosti...

African communication studies: a provocation and invitation

In this introductory essay to the first of two themed issues, “(Re)Theorizing Communication Studies from African Perspectives,” we explore the decolonial potential of African perspectives in communication studies. African knowledge systems ...

Decolonization and Globalization in Communication Studies

Abstract Decolonial scholars are guided by alternative ways of thinking about language and communication that have existed for millennia but have gone unnoticed in scholarship. An approach to communication underwritten by the decolonial app...

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...

Symmetrical archaeology

Symmetry is an epistemological and ethical principle developed in the social study of scientific practice. This essay connects a symmetrical archaeology to major trends in the discipline since the 1960s and to key components of archaeologic...

Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science

PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Bio-ontologies are essential tools for accessing and analyzing the rapidly growing pool of plant genomic and phenomic data. Ontologies provide structured vocabularies to support consistent aggregation of data and a sem...

Amphibious Worlds:Environments, Infrastructures, Ontologies

Presently, we are witness to a global intensification of water-related disasters related to flooding, sinking erosion, and drought, reflecting changes in global water circulation, rising sea levels and changing weather patterns. Indeed, wat...

Medical Informatics: Searching for Underlying Components

OBJECTIVE: To discuss unifying principles that can provide a theory for the diverse aspects of work in medical informatics. If medical informatics is to have academic credibility, it must articulate a clear theory that is distinct from that...

UCO: A Unified Cybersecurity Ontology

In this paper we describe the Unified Cybersecurity Ontology (UCO) that is intended to support information integration and cyber situational awareness in cybersecurity systems. The ontology incorporates and integrates heterogeneous data and...

Lexicography and natural language processing

The chapter introduces links between lexicography and natural language processing in both directions. First, how the lexicographic work benefits from techniques of natural language processing such as word sense disambiguation, semantic simi...

Natural Language Processing

In the modern age of information and analytics, natural language processing (NLP) is one of the most important technologies out there. Making sense of complex structures in language and deriving insights and actions from it are crucial from...

Ontologies for molecular biology.

Molecular biology has a communication problem. There are many databases using their own labels and categories for storing data objects and some using identical labels and categories but with a different meaning. A prominent example is the c...

Ontologies for Software Engineering and Software Technology

Natural Language Processing

In most natural language processing applications, Description Logics have been used to encode in a knowledge base some syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic elements needed to drive the semantic interpretation and the natural language generati...

Contribution of model organism phenotypes to the computational identification of human disease genes

Computing phenotypic similarity helps identify new disease genes and diagnose rare diseases. Genotype–phenotype data from orthologous genes in model organisms can compensate for lack of human data and increase genome coverage. In the past d...

Machine learning in pain research

1. Introduction Pain and pain chronification are incompletely understood and unresolved medical problems that continue to have a high prevalence.14 It has been accepted that pain is a complex phenomenon.2,32,72 Contemporary methods of compu...

Applications of Rough Sets in Big Data Analysis: An Overview

Big data, artificial intelligence and the Internet of things (IoT) are still very popular areas in current research and industrial applications. Processing massive amounts of data generated by the IoT and stored in distributed space is not ...