TY - GEN
T1 - A Chinese time ontology
AU - Zhang, Chunxia
AU - Cao, Cungen
AU - Sui, Yuefei
AU - Niu, Zhendong
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Temporal knowledge representation and identification are crucial in many application areas, such as Semantic Web, knowledge sharing and reusing, and natural language processing. Building time ontologies has been viewed as a promising means to solve this task. However, practical time ontology is closely related with specific nations and cultures, though they may share a common part. In this paper, we present a Chinese time ontology for web services and knowledge systems which involve Chinese temporal entities and temporal properties. First we define a core component called the base time ontology. Upon this base time ontology, we build the other part of the Chinese time ontology, which includes temporal measurement and representation in Chinese specific ways, and transformation between temporal entities in the Chinese time ontology and the DAML time ontology. We argue that the base time ontology is not only a basic and integral part of the Chinese time ontology, but also a base for constructing other time ontologies as well.
AB - Temporal knowledge representation and identification are crucial in many application areas, such as Semantic Web, knowledge sharing and reusing, and natural language processing. Building time ontologies has been viewed as a promising means to solve this task. However, practical time ontology is closely related with specific nations and cultures, though they may share a common part. In this paper, we present a Chinese time ontology for web services and knowledge systems which involve Chinese temporal entities and temporal properties. First we define a core component called the base time ontology. Upon this base time ontology, we build the other part of the Chinese time ontology, which includes temporal measurement and representation in Chinese specific ways, and transformation between temporal entities in the Chinese time ontology and the DAML time ontology. We argue that the base time ontology is not only a basic and integral part of the Chinese time ontology, but also a base for constructing other time ontologies as well.
KW - Chinese time ontology
KW - Semantic web
KW - Temporal representation
KW - Temporal transformation
KW - Time ontology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=38149024151&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-76719-0_61
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-76719-0_61
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38149024151
SN - 9783540767183
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 575
EP - 580
BT - Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management - Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Proceedings
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management, KSEM 2007
Y2 - 28 November 2007 through 30 November 2007
ER -