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10 papers

cs.AI2026

OntoExtend: A Framework for Requirement-driven and Scalable Ontology Extension with LLMs

Anna Sofia Lippolis, Mohammad Javad Saeedizade, Stefan Schmid +5

Ontology extension refers to the process of enriching an existing ontology in response to emerging requirements, making it more complete. This task is a resource-intensive and erro…

cs.AI2026

When CQs Go Wrong: Challenges in CQ Verification with OE-Assist

Anna Sofia Lippolis, Mohammad Javad Saeedizade, Robin Keskisärkkä +3

Competency Questions (CQs) are the central component of CQ-verification, an established process in which an ontology is evaluated against a set of natural language questions to det…

cs.CL2025

Bench4KE: Benchmarking Automated Competency Question Generation

Anna Sofia Lippolis, Minh Davide Ragagni, Paolo Ciancarini +2

The availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a unique opportunity to reinvigorate research on Knowledge Engineering (KE) automation. This trend is already evident in r…

cs.AI2025

The Belief-Desire-Intention Ontology for modelling mental reality and agency

Sara Zuppiroli, Carmelo Fabio Longo, Anna Sofia Lippolis +6

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) model is a cornerstone for representing rational agency in artificial intelligence and cognitive sciences. Yet, its integration into structured, s…

cs.CL2025

Meanings are like Onions: a Layered Approach to Metaphor Processing

Silvia Cappa, Anna Sofia Lippolis, Stefano Zoia

Metaphorical meaning is not a flat mapping between concepts, but a complex cognitive phenomenon that integrates multiple levels of interpretation. In this paper, we propose a strat…

cs.CL2025

The Medical Metaphors Corpus (MCC)

Anna Sofia Lippolis, Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese, Aldo Gangemi

Metaphor is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes scientific understanding, enabling the communication of complex concepts while potentially constraining paradigmatic think…