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OntoEdit: Guiding Ontology Development by Methodology and Inferencing

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE (OTM 2002)

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Abstract

Ontologies now play an important role for many knowledge-intensive applications for which they provide a source of precisely defined terms. The terms are used for concise communication across people and applications. OntoEdit is an ontology editor that has been developed keeping five main objectives in mind: 1. Ease of use. 2. Methodology-guided development of ontologies. 3. Ontology development with help of inferencing. 4. Development of ontology axioms. 5. Extensibility through plug-in structure. This paper is about the first four of these items.

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  1. Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    York Sure & Steffen Staab

  2. Ontoprise GmbH, Haid-und-Neu-Str. 7, 76131, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Juergen Angele & Steffen Staab

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Sure, Y., Angele, J., Staab, S. (2002). OntoEdit: Guiding Ontology Development by Methodology and Inferencing. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2002: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2519. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36124-3_76

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