PhiloSURFical

Semantically browse a philosophical text

PhiloSURFical is an application built to experiment the new navigation mechanisms the Semantic Web can make available. Thanks to a domain ontology, the navigation and understanding of a philosophical text is enhanced by providing it with a series of departing contextual pathways. We call these pathways "learning narratives", as they dynamically recollect dispersed web-resources and organize them into a coherent narrative, whose structure is inspired by perspectives commonly used when teaching philosophy (e.g. theoretical, historical, geographical, argumentative..)

Pasin, M. and Motta, E. (2011) Ontological requirements for annotation and navigation of philosophical resources, Synthese, 182, 2, pp. 235-267, Springer Netherlands

Pasin, M., Motta, E. and Zdrahal, Z. (2007) Capturing Knowledge About Philosophy, K-CAP 2007 - The Fourth International Conference on Knowledge Capture

Pasin, M. (2007) PhiloSURFical: browse Wittgenstein’s Tractatus with the Semantic Web, The 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS), Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria

Pasin, M. and Motta, E. (2007) Supporting Philosophers' Work through the Semantic Web: Ontological Issues, Workshop: Fifth International Workshop on Ontologies and Semantic Web for E-Learning (SWEL-07), Marina Del Rey, California, USA