Ontology: ambiguity and accuracy
Ambiguity is a major obstacle to information retrieval. It is source of several researches in Information Science. Ontologies have been studied in order to solve problems related to ambiguities. Paradoxically, “ontology” term is also ambiguous and it is understood according to the use by the communi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repositorio: | Encontros Bibli |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/25998 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/eb/article/view/1518-2924.2012v17nesp1p125 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ontologia Representação da informação Recuperação da informação Web semântica Ciência da informação Ontology Information representation Information retrieval Semantic web Information science |
| Sumario: | Ambiguity is a major obstacle to information retrieval. It is source of several researches in Information Science. Ontologies have been studied in order to solve problems related to ambiguities. Paradoxically, “ontology” term is also ambiguous and it is understood according to the use by the community. Philosophy and Computer Science seems to have the most accentuated difference related to the term sense. The former holds undisputed tradition and authority. The latter, in despite of being quite recent, holds an informal sense, but pragmatic. Information Science acts ranging from philosophical to computational approaches so as to get organized collections based on balance between users’ necessities and available information. The semantic web requires informational cycle automation and demands studies related to ontologies. Consequently, revisiting relevant approaches for the study of ontologies plays a relevant role as a way to provide useful ideas to researchers maintaining philosophical rigor, and convenience provided by computers. |
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