Within the information systems field, the task of conceptual modeling involves building a
representation of selected phenomena in some domain. High-quality conceptual modeling …

Conceptual modelling is an activity undertaken during information systems development
work to build a representation of selected semantics about some real-world domain …

Research on ontology is becoming increasingly widespread in the computer science
community. While this term has been rather confined to the philosophical sphere in the past …

The main objective of this thesis is to contribute to the theory of Conceptual Modeling by
proposing ontological foundations for structural conceptual models. Conceptual Modeling is …

The Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition presents practical tools
and techniques for implementing natural language processing in computer systems. Along …

Handbook of Knowledge Representation describes the essential foundations of Knowledge
Representation, which lies at the core of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The book provides an up …

It is now more than fifty years since the first paper on formal specifications of an information
system was published by Young and Kent. Even if the term “conceptual model” was not used …

The task of information extraction can be seen as a problem of semantic matching between
a user-defined template and a piece of information written in natural language. To this …

Taxonomies are an important part of conceptual modeling. They provide substantial
structural information, and are typically the key elements in integration efforts, however there …

I revisit here the motivations and the main proposal of paper I published at the 1994
Wittgenstein Symposium, entitled “The Ontological Level”, in the light of the main results …