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Ontology Specification and Integration for Multimedia Applications

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Ontologies

Part of the book series: Integrated Series in Information Systems ((ISIS,volume 14))

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An ontology designed for multimedia applications should enable integration of the conceptual and media spaces. We present M-OWL, a new ontology language, that supports this capability. M-OWL supports explicit definition of media properties for the concepts. The language has been defined as an extension of OWL, the standard ontology language for the web. We have proposed a new Bayesian Network based probabilistic reasoning framework with M-OWL for semantic interpretation of multimedia data. We have also proposed a new model for ontology integration, based on the similarity of the concepts in the media domain. It can be used to integrate several multimedia and traditional ontologies.

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Ghosh, H., Chaudhury, S., Kashyap, K., Maiti, B. (2007). Ontology Specification and Integration for Multimedia Applications. In: Sharman, R., Kishore, R., Ramesh, R. (eds) Ontologies. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-37022-4_9

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