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Generation of OWL Ontologies from Concept Maps in Shallow Domains

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A proposal is presented for integration between a graphical model, such as conceptual maps, and ontologies codified in the OWL language. Conceptual maps are a flexible form of knowledge representation, very useful in education-related collaborative environments; OWL is a language of knowledge representation oriented to semantic analysis and processing carried out by machines. Integration consists of a set of formal transformation applied to conceptual maps and the semantic analysis of the relations linking concepts. The proposed method is based on a concept sense-disambiguation procedure, also defined by the authors, and in the WordNet lexical database. It applies to conceptual maps of shallow domains with labels in the Spanish language.

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Simón, A., Ceccaroni, L., Rosete, A. (2007). Generation of OWL Ontologies from Concept Maps in Shallow Domains. In: Borrajo, D., Castillo, L., Corchado, J.M. (eds) Current Topics in Artificial Intelligence. CAEPIA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4788. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75271-4_27

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