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Terminology Management in Cybersecurity through Knowledge Organization Systems: an Italian Use Case

Authors:
Claudia Lanza
Elena Cardillo
Maria Taverniti
Roberto Guarasci

Keywords: Cybersecurity; KOS; Thesauri; Ontologies; Semantic relations

Abstract:
Specialized terminology is usually managed by Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs), which manipulate and organize concepts and terms through standardized structured techniques. In this paper, an approach to organize, manage, and subsequently update specialized terminologies, specifically related to the domain of Cybersecurity, is proposed. A preliminary analysis and comparison between KOSs showing a higher level of semantic representation, i.e., thesauri and ontologies, is presented in the first section with the objective of clarifying the conceptual framework of these resources. A concrete use case in the domain of Cybersecurity is then described to show the context of application of these two semantic resources, i.e., a project funded by the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council aimed at providing terminology management and representation in the frame of the Italian Cybersecurity Observatory. A transaction between the thesaural and ontological representation of the domain knowledge represents the core of the approach showing the higher qualitative value that ontologies are able to provide to represent the domain of interest, due to the more precise formalization of semantic relationships existing among concepts.

Pages: 17 to 27

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2020. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 30, 2020

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ISSN: 1942-2636