...Khadije Moradi Purpose This study aims to identify the effective components in object interpretation based on Pierce’s triadic sign model to determine how meaning is created and identify the components affecting conceptualization in ontology. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach...

...Shutian Ma; Yingyi Zhang; Chengzhi Zhang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to classify Chinese word semantic relations, which are synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms and meronymys. Design/methodology/approach Basically, four simple methods are applied, ontology-based, dictionary-based, pattern...

...Dongmei Han; Wen Wang; Suyuan Luo; Weiguo Fan; Songxin Wang Purpose This paper aims to apply vector space model (VSM)-PCR model to compute the similarity of Fault zone ontology semantics, which verified the feasibility and effectiveness of the application of VSM-PCR method in uncertainty mapping...

... and scalable data sets and evaluate the performance of a proposed optimized backward chaining ontology reasoning system. This study also compares the experimental results with other ontology reasoning systems to show the performance and scalability of this ontology reasoning system. Design/methodology...