We provide a new method for systematically structuring the top-down level of ontologies. It is based on an interactive, top-down knowledge acquisition process, which assures that the knowledge engineer considers all possible cases while avoiding redundant acquisition. The method is suited especially for creating/merging the top part(s) of the ontologies, where high accuracy is required, and for supporting the merging of two (or more) ontologies on that level.
@article{urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2009030926561, author ={Ganter, Bernhard and Stumme, Gerd}, title ={Creation and merging of ontology top-levels}, keywords ={004 and Ontologie }, copyright ={https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/}, language ={en}, year ={2003} }