Chapter 1: Foundations

Questions

Matthias Sesboüé : (feel free to push back some questions to a specific chapter session)

• I feel like "knowledge engineering" and all the related trendy names (e.g. ontology engineering) are used any time there is some domain data represented using a graph, not necessarily including the formal logic part. Is this only an impression? Is it what you mean by an "application-focused" ontology?
• Could you give more detail about the difference between a conceptual ontology and an application-focused one? (section 1.1, page 3, last paragraph)
• Section 1.3, second paragraph, page 5, you mention "ontologies can be used to improve search accuracy through query expansion to clarify search context". Could you give some example of how? (synonyms expansion for instance?)
• At the end of section 1.3, page 6, could you give more details about each use cases?
  • How are the ontologies used in each use case?
  • Which part of the system are they used to enhance?
  • What are the differences in design for each use cases?

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