An Ontological approach to representing historical knowledge
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Abar, Vanesa Mirzaee
issued: 2009-11-17T22:34:27Z
issued: 2003
related degree: Master of Applied Science - MASc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Electronic versions of historical documents are traditionally limited in both the representations they allow as well as the level of computational manipulation they support. Most electronic documents have two minimal advantages over their hard-copy printed counterparts: availability and keyword search. This means that electronic versions of printed matter do not allow the search for concepts, or the relations between concepts, found within a document. In this work, we present a novel approach to this issue by using ontologies to represent the semantics of the knowledge contained in historical documents. We utilize an evolving methodology to design and build an ontology to represent the information in the book, "The History of the Iranian Constitution. " After a review of available ontology development environments, we selected Protege-2000 to formalize and instantiate our ontology. The ontology was later evaluated by utilizing a set of competency questions and motivating scenarios. Our implementation was successful in answering these questions as well as in providing support for the selected scenarios. Our implementation and the evaluation results are presented along with our proposed future work.
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note: Abstract 11 Abstract Electronic versions of historical documents are traditionally limited in both the representations they allow as well as the level of computational manipulation they support. Most electronic documents have two minimal advantages over their hard-copy printed counterparts: availability and keyword search. This means that electronic versions of printed matter do not allow the search for concepts, or the relations between concepts, found within a document. In this work, we present a novel approach to this issue by using ontologies to represent the semantics of the knowledge contained in historical documents. We utilize an evolving methodology to design and build an ontology to represent the information in the book, "Tfte History of the Iranian Constitution. " After a review of available ontology development environments, we selected Protege-2000 to formalize and instantiate our ontology. The ontology was later evaluated by utilizing a set of competency questions and motivating scenarios. Our implementation was successful in answering these questions as well as in providing support for the selected scenarios. Our implementation and the evaluation results are presented along with our proposed future work. Table of Content ; i i i Table of Contents Abstract ii Table of Contents i i i List of Tables v List of Figures vi 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Problem Statement and Motivation 1 1.2 Thesi s organization , 4 2 Background and Related Work 6 2.1 Related Work 6 2.1.1 Model Edition Partnership (MEP) proj ect 8 2.1.2 Historical Event Markup and Linking (HEML) project 8 2.1.3 Analysis of these approaches and our selected approach 10 2.2 Knowledge Representation and Ontologies 12 2.2.1 Why ontologies? 13 2.2.2 Defining the term "ontology" 16 2.2.3 What do ontologies look like? 19 2.2.4 Ontology classification 22 2.2.5 Methods for building an ontology 28 2.2.5.1 Uschold and King Methodology (Enterprise Methodology) 30 2.2.5.2 Gruninger and Fox Methodology (TOVE Metho…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2004-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0065549
language: eng
degree discipline: Electrical and Computer Engineering
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
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scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15198