This paper introduces a novel method for merging open-domain terminological knowledge. It takes advantage of the Region Connection Calculus (RCC5), a formalism used to represent regions in a topological space and to reason about their set-theoretic relationships. To this end, we first propose a faithful translation of terminological knowledge provided by several and potentially conflicting sources into region spaces. The merging is then performed on these spaces, and the result is translated back into the underlying language of the input sources. Our approach allows us to benefit from the expressivity and the flexibility of RCC5 while dealing with conflicting knowledge in a principled way.

翻译：本文介绍了一种将开放式域名学知识合并的新方法,它利用了区域连接计算(RCC5),这是一种形式主义,用来在地形空间代表各个区域,并解释其设置理论关系。为此,我们首先提议将若干来源提供的术语学知识忠实地翻译成区域空间,然后在这些空间进行合并,结果又被翻译成输入源的基本语言。我们的方法使我们能够从RCC5的表达性和灵活性中获益,同时以原则性的方式处理相互矛盾的知识。