Ontology design
PhD thesis committee for Dong Han, entitled “Formalized Modeling of Qualitative Case Studies”, defended at the University of Neuchâtel, under supervision of Prof. Kilian Stoffel.
“This thesis aims to solve the problems of data modelization and processing emerging in qualitative case studies. A suit of ontologies are proposed for knowledge representation, integration, and extraction. Based on this knowledge, topic analysis is conducted to discover the latent information out of the original documents in order to depict the implicit themes and set up sophisticated hierarchical structures of these topics. With the built structures, ontology inference is carried out to produce new facts to assist domain tasks. This method is applicable within the range of multiple lingualism including non-alphabetical languages such as Chinese.”
