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Lightweight ontologies are increasingly used by domain experts in a variety of activities. The development of these knowledge representation artefacts carries the challenge of the proper conceptualisation of the considered reality/situation. In particular, the elicitation of conceptual relations is widely acknowledged in the literature as being the most difficult part of the process. This paper proposes a technique to support domain experts in the elicitation of conceptual relations in the development of lightweight ontologies by providing the means to develop and ascertain the consistency of the produced conceptualisation results towards its reusability. Its innovation comes from the development of a reference model for the conceptual relations elicitation.
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Sousa, C., Soares, A. (2015). A Conceptual Relations Reference Model to the Construction and Assessment of Lightweight Ontologies. In: Ciuciu, I., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2015 Workshops. OTM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26138-6_54
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