Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence
Scientific paper
2012-04-21
CEUR-WS Volume 833, 2011
Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
10 pages, 5 figures, presented at the 2nd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO) 2011
Scientific paper
The Information Artifact Ontology is an ontology in the domain of information entities. Core to the definition of what it is to be an information entity is the claim that an information entity must be `about' something, which is encoded in an axiom expressing that all information entities are about some entity. This axiom comes into conflict with ontological realism, since many information entities seem to be about non-existing entities, such as hypothetical molecules. We discuss this problem in the context of diagrams of molecules, a kind of information entity pervasively used throughout computational chemistry. We then propose a solution that recognizes that information entities such as diagrams are expressions of diagrammatic languages. In so doing, we not only address the problem of classifying diagrams that seem to be about non-existing entities but also allow a more sophisticated categorisation of information entities.
Batchelor Colin
Hastings Janna
Neuhaus Fabian
Steinbeck Christoph
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