Towards Ontological Blending
Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications, 14th International Conference, AIMSA 2010, Varna, Bulgaria, September 8-10. 2010. Proceedings, volume 6304 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 263-264. Springer, (2010)Abstract
We introduce ontological blending as a new method for combining ontologies. In contrast to other combination techniques that aim at integrating or assimilating categories and relations of thematically closely related ontologies, blending aims at `creatively' generating new categories and ontological definitions on the basis of input ontologies whose domains are thematically distinct but whose specifications share structural or logical properties. As a result, ontological blending can generate new ontologies and concepts and it allows a more flexible technique for ontology combination than existing methods. The approach is inspired by conceptual blending in cognitive science, and draws on methods from ontological engineering, algebraic specification, and computational creativity in general.
