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Ontologia praw naukowych w kontekście reprezentacji i udostępniania wyników badań naukowych
Ontology of Scientific Laws in the Context of Representation and Sharing of Research Results

Author(s): Rafał Trójczak, Robert Trypuz, Piotr Kulicki
Subject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology, Logic, Contemporary Philosophy, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Published by: Uniwersytet Warszawski - Wydział Filozofii i Socjologii, Instytut Filozofii
Keywords: scientific law; ontology; knowledge representation; agri-food science

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to present an ontology of scientific laws as a tool for presentation of results extracted from research articles. The way we represent scientific laws is founded on our classification of scientific laws, which is based on the works of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz and Władysław Krajewski. The classification isdescribed formally and complemented with the specification of requirements for each type of law, in order to obtain an ontology in the sense of ontological engineering. The ontology is used to represent research results from the domain of agri-food science. We give examples of representation of laws taken from scientific papers and reasoning algorithms that lead to automatic generation of new information and identification of conflicts in the literature.

  • Issue Year: 23/2015
  • Issue No: 4 (92)
  • Page Range: 19-40
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Polish