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InterOntology. Proceedings of the First Interdisciplinary Ontology Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, 26-27 February 2008Keio University Press. 2008.
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2143Making AI Meaningful AgainSynthese 198 (March): 2061-2081. 2021.Artificial intelligence (AI) research enjoyed an initial period of enthusiasm in the 1970s and 80s. But this enthusiasm was tempered by a long interlude of frustration when genuinely useful AI applications failed to be forthcoming. Today, we are experiencing once again a period of enthusiasm, fired above all by the successes of the technology of deep neural networks or deep machine learning. In this paper we draw attention to what we take to be serious problems underlying current views of artifi…Read more
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2790A Product Life Cycle Ontology for Additive ManufacturingComputers in Industry 105 191-203. 2019.The manufacturing industry is evolving rapidly, becoming more complex, more interconnected, and more geographically distributed. Competitive pressure and diversity of consumer demand are driving manufacturing companies to rely more and more on improved knowledge management practices. As a result, multiple software systems are being created to support the integration of data across the product life cycle. Unfortunately, these systems manifest a low degree of interoperability, and this creates pro…Read more
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298La vérité et le champ visuelIn Jean-Michel Roy, Jean Francisco J. Varela & Bernard Pachoud (eds.), Naturaliser la phénoménologie: Husserlianisme et science cognitive, Cnrs Editions. pp. 411-426. 2002.La présente étude utilise les outils du domaine de la méréotopologie (la théorie des parts, ensembles et frontières) pour élaborer les implications de certaines analogies entre la 'psychologie écologique' de J.J.Gibson et la phénoménologie de Edmund Husserl. On présentera une théorie ontologique de frontières spatiales et des entités possédant une extension spatiale. S'en rapportant aux exemples de la sphère de géographie, on démontre qu'aussi bien les frontières que les entités à extension spat…Read more
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352Fiat objectsIn Nicola Guarino, Laure Vieu & Simone Pribbenow (eds.), Parts and Wholes: Conceptual Part-Whole Relations and Formal Mereology, 11th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, 8 August 1994, Amsterdam:, European Coordinating Committee For Artificial Intelligence. pp. 14-22. 1994.Human cognitive acts are directed towards entities of a wide range of different types. What follows is a new proposal for bringing order into this typological clutter. A categorial scheme for the objects of human cognition should be (1) critical and realistic. Cognitive subjects are liable to error, even to systematic error of the sort that is manifested by believers in the Pantheon of Olympian gods. Thus not all putative object-directed acts should be recognized as having objects of their own. …Read more
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1005Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science (edited book)Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft. 1984.A collection of papers presented at the First International Summer Institute in Cognitive Science, University at Buffalo, July 1994, including the following papers: ** Topological Foundations of Cognitive Science, Barry Smith ** The Bounds of Axiomatisation, Graham White ** Rethinking Boundaries, Wojciech Zelaniec ** Sheaf Mereology and Space Cognition, Jean Petitot ** A Mereotopological Definition of 'Point', Carola Eschenbach ** Discreteness, Finiteness, and the Structure of To…Read more
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1284Ontology-based fusion of sensor data and natural languageApplied ontology 13 (4): 295-333. 2018.We describe a prototype ontology-driven information system (ODIS) that exploits what we call Portion of Reality (POR) representations. The system takes both sensor data and natural language text as inputs and composes on this basis logically structured POR assertions. The goal of our prototype is to represent both natural language and sensor data within a single framework that is able to support both axiomatic reasoning and computation. In addition, the framework should be capable of discovering…Read more
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350On defining bruxismStudies in Health Technology and Informatics 247 551-555. 2018.In a series of recent publications, orofacial researchers have debated the question of how ‘bruxism’ should be defined for the purposes of accurate diagnosis and reliable clinical research. Following the principles of realism-based ontology, we performed an analysis of the arguments involved. This revealed that the disagreements rested primarily on inconsistent use of terms, so that issues of ontology were thus obfuscated by shortfalls in terminology. In this paper, we demonstrate how bruxism te…Read more
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503The Industrial Ontologies Foundry proof-of-concept projectIn Ilkyeong Moon, Gyu M. Lee, Jinwoo Park, Dimitris Kiritsis & Gregor von Cieminski (eds.), Advances in Production Management Systems. Smart Manufacturing for Industry 4.0, Ifip. pp. 402-409. 2018.The current industrial revolution is said to be driven by the digitization that exploits connected information across all aspects of manufacturing. Standards have been recognized as an important enabler. Ontology-based information standard may provide benefits not offered by current information standards. Although there have been ontologies developed in the industrial manufacturing domain, they have been fragmented and inconsistent, and little has received a standard status. With successes in de…Read more
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707The Planteome database: an integrated resource for reference ontologies, plant genomics and phenomicsNucleic Acids Research 46 (D1). 2018.The Planteome project provides a suite of reference and species-specific ontologies for plants and annotations to genes and phenotypes. Ontologies serve as common standards for semantic integration of a large and growing corpus of plant genomics, phenomics and genetics data. The reference ontologies include the Plant Ontology, Plant Trait Ontology, and the Plant Experimental Conditions Ontology developed by the Planteome project, along with the Gene Ontology, Chemical Entities of Biological Inte…Read more
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362Biomedical ontology alignment: An approach based on representation learningJournal of Biomedical Semantics 9 (21). 2018.While representation learning techniques have shown great promise in application to a number of different NLP tasks, they have had little impact on the problem of ontology matching. Unlike past work that has focused on feature engineering, we present a novel representation learning approach that is tailored to the ontology matching task. Our approach is based on embedding ontological terms in a high-dimensional Euclidean space. This embedding is derived on the basis of a novel phrase retrofittin…Read more
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522A visual representation of part-whole relationships in BFO-conformant ontologiesIn Á Rocha, A. M. Correia, H. Adeli, L. P. Reis & S. Costanzo (eds.), Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 569), Springer. pp. 184-194. 2017.In the visual representation of ontologies, in particular of part-whole relationships, it is customary to use graph theory as the representational background. We claim here that the standard graph-based approach has a number of limitations, and we propose instead a new representation of part-whole structures for ontologies, and describe the results of experiments designed to show the effectiveness of this new proposal especially as concerns reduction of visual complexity. The proposal is develop…Read more
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16The Utopian Mind and Other Papers: A Critical Study in Moral and Political Philosophy, by Aurel Kolnai. Edited by Francis Dunlop (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 27 (2): 208-210. 1996.
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1Meinong, by Rheinhardt Grossmann (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 7 (2): 147-148. 1976.
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10Aufsätze und Vorträge , by Edmund Husserl, edited with supplementary texts by Thomas Nenon and Hans Rainer Sepp (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 21 (3): 293-295. 1990.
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5The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy, by J. N. Mohanty (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 18 (3): 299-301. 1987.
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10Distanz und Nähe. Reflexionen und Analysen zur Kunst der Gegenwart, eds. Petra Jaeger and Rudolf Lüthe (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 16 (3): 320-322. 1985.
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256No Philosophy. No Transformation. No ThesesEthik Und Sozialwissenschaften 3 (4): 571-573. 1992.Peer commentary on Herta Nagl-Docekal, “The Feminist Transformation of Philosophy”
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1058ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (edited book)NCOR. 2009.
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659John Searle: Od aktów mowy do rzeczywistości społecznejRoczniki Filozoficzne 51 (1): 265-292. 2003.Polish translation of "John Searle: From Speech Acts to Social Reality", We provide an overview of Searle's contributions to speech act theory and the ontology of social reality, focusing on his theory of constitutive rules. In early versions of this theory, Searle proposed that all such rules have the form 'X counts as Y in context C' formula – as for example when Barack Obama (X) counts as President of the United States (Y) in the context of US political affairs. Crucially, the X and the Y te…Read more
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265Interdyscyplinarne perspektywy rozwoju, integracji i zastosowań ontologii poznawczychAvant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 7 (3): 101-117. 2016.We discuss recent progress in the development of cognitive ontologies and summarize three challenges in the coordinated development and application of these resources. Challenge 1 is to adopt a standardized definition for cognitive processes. We describe three possibilities and recommend one that is consistent with the standard view in cognitive and biomedical sciences. Challenge 2 is harmonization. Gaps and conflicts in representation must be resolved so that these resources can be combined for…Read more
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273VO: Vaccine OntologyIn Barry Smith (ed.), ICBO 2009: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Biomedical Ontology, Ncor. 2009.Vaccine research, as well as the development, testing, clinical trials, and commercial uses of vaccines involve complex processes with various biological data that include gene and protein expression, analysis of molecular and cellular interactions, study of tissue and whole body responses, and extensive epidemiological modeling. Although many data resources are available to meet different aspects of vaccine needs, it remains a challenge how we are to standardize vaccine annotation, integrate da…Read more
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242Referent Tracking of Portions of Reality. Docket No. 1097.015A (USPA 2009055437)In U.S. Patent Application, Us Patent Office. 2008.Management of information is facilitated by unambiguously tracking portions of reality over time. To track the portions of reality, a referent tracking system is used. The referent tracking system is able to communicate with other tracking systems and/or tradition information systems. Errors in the referent tracking system are detected and corrected to maintain actual representations of the portions of reality.
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331An improved ontological representation of dendritic cells as a paradigm for all cell typesBMC Bioinformatics 10 (1): 70. 2009.The Cell Ontology (CL) is designed to provide a standardized representation of cell types for data annotation. Currently, the CL employs multiple is_a relations, defining cell types in terms of histological, functional, and lineage properties, and the majority of definitions are written with sufficient generality to hold across multiple species. This approach limits the CL’s utility for cross-species data integration. To address this problem, we developed a method for the ontological representat…Read more
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179Satz und SachverhaltAcademia Verlag. 2001.The dominant theory of judgment in 1870 was one or other variety of combination theory: the act of judgment is an act of combining concepts or ideas in the mind of the judging subject. In the decades to follow a succession of alternative theories arose to address defects in the combination theory, starting with Bolzano’s theory of propositions in themselves, Brentano’s theory of judgment as affirmation or denial of existence, theories distinguishing judgment act from judgment content advanced by…Read more
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280Review of Die Philosophie Franz Brentanos (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 11 194--199. 1980.
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The benefits of realism: A realist logic with applicationsApplied Ontology. An Introduction 109--124. 2008.
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158Towards Interoperability of Biomedical Ontologies - Report Number 07132In Towards Interoperability of Biomedical Ontologies, Schloss Dagstuhl-leibniz-zentrum Fuer Informatik. 2008.The meeting focused on uses of ontologies, with a special focus on spatial ontologies, in addressing the ever increasing needs faced by biology and medicine to cope with ever expanding quantities of data. To provide effective solutions computers need to integrate data deriving from myriad heterogeneous sources by bringing the data together within a single framework. The meeting brought together leaders in the field of what are called "top-level ontologies" to address this issue, and to establish…Read more
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1328Practical Knowledge: Outlines of a Theory of Traditions and Skills (edited book)Croom Helm. 1988.A series of papers on different aspects of practical knowledge by Roderick Chisholm, Rudolf Haller, J. C. Nyiri, Eva Picardi, Joachim Schulte Roger Scruton, Barry Smith and Johan Wrede.
Barry Smith
University at Buffalo
National Center for Ontological Research
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University at BuffaloDepartment of Philosophy
Biomedical Informatics
Neurology
Computer Science and EngineeringDistinguished Professor, Julian Park Chair -
National Center for Ontological ResearchAdministrator
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APA Eastern Division
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Ontology |
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence |
Philosophy of Biology |