Fourth International Workshop on Definitions in Ontologies (IWOOD 2016)
Held in conjunction with the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO 2016)
CH2 Aumni Conference Center Boardroom (Upstairs) This half-day event is the fourth workshop in the series on Definitions in Ontologies. The first three such workshops (DO 2013, IWOOD 2014, and IWOOD 2015) were held in conjunction with ICBO 2013, ICBO 2014, and ICBO 2015. This fourth workshop will be held in conjunction with ICBO 2016 at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, from August 1 to 4, 2016. The 2016 edition is focused on definition writing, evaluation, revision strategies, methodologies, and tools. Definitions of terms in ontologies serve a number of purposes. For example, logical definitions allow reasoners to assist in and verify classification, lessening the development burden and enabling expressive query. Natural language definitions can help ameliorate low inter-annotator agreement. Good definitions allow for non-experts and experts in adjacent disciplines to understand unfamiliar terms making it possible to confidently use terms from external ontologies, facilitating data integration. Despite the importance of definitions in ontologies, developers often have little if any training in writing definitions and axioms, as shown in Selja Seppälä and Alan Ruttenberg, Survey on defining practices in ontologies: Report, July 2013. This leads to varying definition practices and inconsistent definition quality. Worse, textual and logical definitions are often left out of ontologies altogether. The goals of this workshop are:
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