OTM 2009 - LNCS 5870-5872 CD-ROM

A Socio-semantic Approach to Collaborative Domain Conceptualization

Carla Pereira^1,2, Cristóvão Sousa^1,2, and António Lucas Soares^1,3

¹Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores do Porto (INESC Porto), Campus da FEUP, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200 - 465 Porto, Portugal
csp@inescporto.pt
cpsousa@inescporto.pt
als@fe.up.pt

²Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Felgueiras Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua do Curral, Casa do Curral, Margaride, 4610-156, Felgueiras, Portugal

³Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

Abstract. Current knowledge about the early phases of ontology construction is insufficient to support methods and techniques for a collaborative construction of a conceptualization. Following an approach inspired in cognitive semantics, the application and extension of the Conceptual Blending Theory (CBT) to the realm of collaborative semantic tools is proposed. A formal framework is presented together with some examples in the collaborative networks context. A collaborative semantic architecture is presented. This architecture supports the two components of the proposed method: collective conceptualization and consensus reaching.

Keywords: Conceptualization, social construction of meaning, ontology development, collaborative networks, conceptual blending

LNCS 5872, p. 524 ff.

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