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AO
2011
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13 years 23 days ago
MIREOT: The minimum information to reference an external ontology term
While the Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a mechanism to import ontologies, this mechanism is not always suitable. First, given the current state of editing tools and the iss...
Mélanie Courtot, Frank Gibson, Allyson L. L...
COLING
2010
13 years 1 months ago
Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice
With OWL (Web Ontology Language) established as a standard for encoding ontologies on the Semantic Web, interest has begun to focus on the task of verbalising OWL code in controll...
Richard Power, Allan Third
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Mapping Master: A Flexible Approach for Mapping Spreadsheets to OWL
We describe a mapping language for converting data contained in spreadsheets into the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The developed language, called M2 , overcomes shortcomings with e...
Martin J. O'Connor, Christian Halaschek-Wiener, Ma...
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Evolution of DL - Lite Knowledge Bases
Abstract. We study the problem of evolution for Knowledge Bases (KBs) expressed in Description Logics (DLs) of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the t...
Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Kharlamov, Werner Nutt, Dm...
SEMWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Justification Oriented Proofs in OWL
Abstract. Justifications -- that is, minimal entailing subsets of an ontology -- are currently the dominant form of explanation provided by ontology engineering environments, espec...
Matthew Horridge, Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler
DLOG
2010
13 years 4 months ago
Updating TBoxes in DL-Lite
Abstract. We study the problem of updates for TBoxes represented in Description Logics of the DL-Lite family. DL-Lite is at the basis of OWL 2 QL, one of the tractable fragments of...
Dmitriy Zheleznyakov, Diego Calvanese, Evgeny Khar...
JAPLL
2010
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13 years 4 months ago
Algebraic tableau reasoning for the description logic SHOQ
Semantic web applications based on the web ontology language (OWL) often require the use of numbers in class descriptions for expressing cardinality restrictions on properties or ...
Jocelyne Faddoul, Volker Haarslev
WS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
OWL 2: The next step for OWL
Since achieving W3C recommendation status in 2004, the Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been successfully applied to many problems in computer science. Practical experience with OW...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Boris Motik, B...
IJMMS
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Using OWL to model biological knowledge
Much has been written of the facilities for ontology building and reasoning offered for ontologies expressed in the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Less has been written about how th...
Robert Stevens, Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Katy...
BMCBI
2007
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13 years 6 months ago
Understanding and using the meaning of statements in a bio-ontology: recasting the Gene Ontology in OWL
The bio-ontology community falls into two camps: first we have biology domain experts, who actually hold the knowledge we wish to capture in ontologies; second, we have ontology s...
Mikel Egaña Aranguren, Sean Bechhofer, Phil...