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W3C Web Ontology working group has recently developed OWL as an ontology language for the Semantic Web. However, because OWL does not have the full-fledged semantics for temporal information, it cannot perform reasoning about temporal knowledge. Entities in the real world are changing according to the passage of time and new facts are occurring due to events. If knowledge in the KBs does not have the temporal information, it becomes incomplete and incorrect. Therefore, we in this paper propose an ontology language TL-OWL, which extends OWL to have the temporal semantics in order to represent and reason the temporal information in the Semantic Web.
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Kim, SK., Song, MY., Kim, C., Yea, SJ., Jang, H.C., Lee, KC. (2008). Temporal Ontology Language for Representing and Reasoning Interval-Based Temporal Knowledge. In: Domingue, J., Anutariya, C. (eds) The Semantic Web. ASWC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89704-0_3
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