THE COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPTS IN FORMAL ONTOLOGIES - Some General Considerations

Marcello Frixione, Antonio Lieto

2010

Abstract

Within cognitive science, the “concept of concept” results to be highly disputed and problematic. In our opinion, this is due to the fact that the notion itself of concept is in some sense heterogeneous, and encompasses different cognitive phenomena. This results in a strain between conflicting requirements, such as, for example, compositionality on the one side and the need of representing prototypical information on the other. This has several consequences also for the practice of knowledge engineering and for the technology of formal ontologies. In this paper we propose an analysis of this state of affairs. As a possible way out, in the conclusions we suggest a framework for the representation of concepts, which is inspired by the so called dual process theories of reasoning and rationality.

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Frixione M. and Lieto A. (2010). THE COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPTS IN FORMAL ONTOLOGIES - Some General Considerations . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-29-4, pages 396-403. DOI: 10.5220/0003095903960403

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@conference{keod10,
author={Marcello Frixione and Antonio Lieto},
title={THE COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPTS IN FORMAL ONTOLOGIES - Some General Considerations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={396-403},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003095903960403},
isbn={978-989-8425-29-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2010)
TI - THE COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF CONCEPTS IN FORMAL ONTOLOGIES - Some General Considerations
SN - 978-989-8425-29-4
AU - Frixione M.
AU - Lieto A.
PY - 2010
SP - 396
EP - 403
DO - 10.5220/0003095903960403