ontological
- adjective
- /ˌɒntəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
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ontológico
- Researchers in the field of ontological engineering address many other dimensions, including the heterogeneity of representation formalisms and the heterogeneity of implementation platforms.
Examples
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The protagonist was not Foreman's alias (often named Max), as was the rule in the Ontological-Hysteric Theater productions from its inception in 1968.
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So everything that follows is a misrepresentation (a very Ontological-Hysteric Theater concept).
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It's a specific type of ontological error.
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And I think we might have touched on this a little bit earlier, but you wrote a paper called Ontological Commitment in the Vernacular.
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For instance, OntoQuest system 19 is built over a large hospital database and supports ontological queries for computing the semantic similarity among different patients, according to their diagnosis sets defined by using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9).
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The researchers developed a new framework that uses ontological models to improve data interoperability across different databases.
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In artificial intelligence, creating an ontological structure helps machines understand the relationships between various concepts.
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Understanding the ontological principles of knowledge representation is crucial for effective data integration techniques.
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Etymology
Ontological comes from the Greek parts ont- meaning 'being' and -logy meaning 'study', the same ending as in biology. In information science and AI it describes a model or list of the 'things' in a system and how they connect, so an ontological framework shows what 'exists' in the data.