03585nas a2200409   4500000000100000008004100001260001200042653002300054653001900077653001700096653001500113653001400128653001600142653001700158653001300175653002900188653002300217653001700240653002900257653002600286653001500312653002300327653002900350653006400379653006500443653001600508653001600524653001700540100001400557700001300571700001100584700002800595245013600623856014000759490000700899520226900906       2023                            d  c2023///10aCultural heritages10aArts computing10aDigitization10aOntology's10aKey words10aMartial art10aDigitisation10aOntology10aKnowledge representation10aEmbodied knowledge10asemantic web10aKnowledge-representation10aComputational methods10aontologies10aembodied knowledge10aKnowledge representation10aAdditional key word and phrasesintangible cultural heritage10aAdditional Key Words and PhrasesIntangible cultural heritage10ainferencing10aInferencing10aSemantic-Web1 aA. Adamou1 aD. Picca1 aY. Hou1 aLoreto Granados-García00aThe Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85176747649&doi=10.1145%2f3606702&partnerID=40&md5=31a745371653ff5dc1349fbf076296ad0 v163 aInvestigating the intangible nature of a cultural domain can take multiple forms, addressing, for example, the aesthetic, epistemic, and social dimensions of its phenomenology. The context of Southern Chinese martial arts is of particular significance, as it carries immaterial components of all these aspects: The technical and stylistic framework of a martial art system; the imagery associated to movements; and the transmission of knowledge orally, practically, or through influence, are but examples of intangible characteristics that can and should be captured, not unlike cultural artifacts. The latter case - the one of formalizing cultural influence through its various forms of evidenceis emblematic as well as largely untrodden ground. A previous attempt at detecting cultural influence computationally was made in the context of Roman archaeology, though the binding of that early effort with the domain model was tight; also, there has hardly been any prior dedicated effort to model the martial arts domain through ontologies. In this article, we present the realization of the full cycle of a computational approach to investigating cultural contact in Southern Chinese martial arts. The entire approach is predicated upon the usage of standards and techniques of the Semantic Web and formal knowledge. Starting from a modular domain ontology, which models martial arts independently of the goal of capturing cultural influence, we perform knowledge extraction from archival material from the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive and generate a dataset of the results modeled after said ontology. Then, we combine the resulting knowledge base with a rule model that represents ways to infer knowledge of potential contact between cultures based on the evidence present in the knowledge base. The results offer an insight into how an inference-based computational model can be applied to detect interesting facts even in the as-yet underexplored domain of intangible cultural heritage. The implemented workflow shows that the full-cycle employment of semantic technologies can offer the ground truth required for largely different approaches, such as statistical and machine learning ones, to operate.  © 2023 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).