An Ontology Specification Language Based on a Controlled Natural Language

2nd Workshop on Ontologies and their Applications

Josiane M. P. Ferreira ; Sérgio Roberto da Silva ; Edgard M. de Oliveira

Others  :  http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-199/wonto-04.pdf
PID  :  3908

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The specification of ontologies has always been a complex problem, especially due to the difficulty of acquiring knowledge from domain experts. This paper proposes an ontology specification language based on a Controlled Natural language to be used by domain experts in the specification of their own ontologies. The language was made in order to tolerate the use of linguistic mechanism like anaphors and ellipses, allowing users to specify concept references by means of pronouns. To solve this anaphors the DRT approach is used. A mapping from this ontology specification language to a great part ofthe OWL-DL formalism was also developed to allow reasoning with its produced ontologies.