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In the DOGMA (Developing Ontology-Grounded Methods and Applications) ontology engineering approach, ontology construction starts from an uninterpreted base of elementary fact types, called lexons, which are mined from linguistic descriptions. Applications that ontologically commit to such a lexon base are assigned a formal semantics by mapping the application symbols to paths in this lexon base. Besides specifying which concepts are used, we restrict how they may be used and queried with semantic constraints, or rules, based on the fact-based database modeling method NIAM/ORM. Such ontological commitments are specified in the Ω-RIDL language. In this paper we present the Ω-RIDL Markup Language and illustrate with a case from the field of Human Resources Management.
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Trog, D., Tang, Y., Meersman, R. (2007). Towards Ontological Commitments with Ω-RIDL Markup Language. In: Paschke, A., Biletskiy, Y. (eds) Advances in Rule Interchange and Applications. RuleML 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4824. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75975-1_8
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