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OntoEdit: Multifaceted Inferencing for Ontology Engineering

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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. Tools such as ontology editors facilitate the creation and maintenance of ontologies. 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.

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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. (2003). OntoEdit: Multifaceted Inferencing for Ontology Engineering. In: Spaccapietra, S., March, S., Aberer, K. (eds) Journal on Data Semantics I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2800. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39733-5_6

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