Abstract
Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature makes ontology translation one of the most difficult problems that web-based agents must cope with when they share information. Ontology translation is required when translating datasets, generating ontology extensions and querying through different ontologies. OntoMerge, an online system by ontology merging and automated reasoning, can implement ontology translation with inputs and outputs in DAML+OIL or other web languages. The merge of two related ontologies is obtained by taking the union of the concepts and the axioms defining them. We add bridging axioms not only as “bridges” between concepts in two related ontologies but also to make this merge into a new ontology for further merging with other ontologies. Our uniform internal representation, Web-PDDL, is a strong typed first-order logic language for web application, used to separate ontology translation into syntactic translation and semantic translation. Syntactic translation is done by an automatic translator between Web-PDDL and DAML+OIL or other web languages. Semantic translation is implemented using an inference engine (OntoEngine) which processes assertions and queries in Web-PDDL syntax, running in either a data-driven (forward chaining) or demand-driven (backward chaining) way.
This research was supported by DARPA as DAML program.
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Dou, D., McDermott, D., Qi, P. (2003). Ontology Translation on the Semantic Web. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Schmidt, D.C. (eds) On The Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2003: CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE. OTM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2888. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39964-3_60
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