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Converting UML-Based Ontology Conceptualizations to OWL with Chowlk

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Abstract

During the ontology conceptualization activity, developers usually generate preliminary models of the ontology in the form of diagrams. Such models drive the ontology implementation activity, where the models are encoded using an implementation language, typically by means of ontology editors. The goal of this demo is to take advantage of the developed ontology conceptualizations in order to accelerate the ontology implementation activity. For doing so we present Chowlk, a converter to transform digital UML-based ontology diagrams into OWL. This system aims at supporting users in the generation of the first versions of ontologies by reusing the ontology conceptualization output.

This work has been supported by the BIMERR project funded from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 820621.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://chowlk.linkeddata.es.

  2. 2.

    https://github.com/oeg-upm/Chowlk.

  3. 3.

    https://chowlk.linkeddata.es/chowlk_spec.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/oeg-upm/chowlk_spec/blob/master/chowlk-drawio-library.xml.

  5. 5.

    A demo video of Chowlk is available at https://youtu.be/1oF0qDhParA.

  6. 6.

    See the BIMERR European project https://bimerr.iot.linkeddata.es/ or contributions to the W3C WoT-discovery task https://tinyurl.com/w653me9f.

  7. 7.

    http://mired.uspceu.es/microrrelatos/.

  8. 8.

    http://prefix.cc/.

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  1. Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Serge Chávez-Feria, Raúl García-Castro & María Poveda-Villalón

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  1. IMEC, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Ruben Verborgh

  2. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Anastasia Dimou

  3. University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Aidan Hogan

  4. Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

    Claudia d'Amato

  5. Faculty of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ilaria Tiddi

  6. Corporate Technology, Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, München, Bayern, Germany

    Arne Bröring

  7. University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Simon Mayer

  8. Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Femke Ongenae

  9. Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

    Riccardo Tommasini

  10. Information Infrastructure, FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Mehwish Alam

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Chávez-Feria, S., García-Castro, R., Poveda-Villalón, M. (2021). Converting UML-Based Ontology Conceptualizations to OWL with Chowlk. In: Verborgh, R., et al. The Semantic Web: ESWC 2021 Satellite Events. ESWC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12739. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80418-3_8

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