Foundational Ontology Comparison: Applications

Application scenarios of domain ontologies e.g. the Semantic Web, ontology driven information systems etc.

DOLCE

  • Ontology driven information systems
  • Database integration
  • The Semantic Web
  • Information retrieval
  • Scientific research
  • Formally representing scientific theory
  • Natural language processing

    • BFO

  • Ontology driven information systems
  • Database integration
  • Scientific research
  • Formally representing scientific theory
  • Natural language processing

    • GFO

  • Ontology driven information systems
  • The Semantic Web
  • Scientific research
  • Formally representing scientific theory
  • Modelling methodologies and languages to be used in software applications making them more explicit and ontological foundation of conceptual modelling
  • Domain specific semantic wikis

    • SUMO

  • Ontology driven information systems
  • The Semantic Web
  • Scientific research
  • Formally representing scientific theory
  • Natural language processing
  • Search applications