What Is Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Ontology
What Is Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Ontology
What Is Fuzzy Logic and Fuzzy Ontology
Source: W.C. Cho and D. Richards, Ontology construction and concept reuse with
formal concept analysis for improved web document retrieval, Web Intelligence and
Agent Systems: An international journal 5 (2007) 109–126
Source: W.C. Cho and D. Richards, Ontology construction and concept reuse with
formal concept analysis for improved web document retrieval, Web Intelligence and
Agent Systems: An international journal 5 (2007) 109–126
• For instance, just consider the case we would like to build an ontology about
flowers. Then we may encounter the problem of representing concepts like
“Candia is a creamy white rose with dark pink edges to the petals”,
“Jacaranda is a hot pink rose”, “Calla is a very large, long white flower on
thick stalks”. As it becomes apparent such concepts hardly can be encoded
into OWL.
• As it becomes apparent such concepts hardly can be encoded into OWL DL,
as they involve fuzzy or vague concepts, like “creamy”, “dark”, “hot”,
“large” and “thick”, for which a clear and precise definition is impossible.
• T denotes the fuzzy taxonomy relations among the set of concepts C. It organizes
concepts into sub-(super-)concept tree structures. The taxonomic relationship T (i, j )
indicates that the child j is a conceptual specification of the parent i with a certain
degree.
• N denotes the set of non-taxonomy fuzzy associative relationships that relate entities
across tree structures, for example:
• X is the set of axioms expressed in a proper logical language, i.e., predicates that
constrain the meaning of concepts, individuals, relationships and functions.
Source: Quan Thanh Tho, Siu Cheung Hui, Automatic Fuzzy Ontology Generation for Semantic Web, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
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