Reusing ontologies and language components for ontology generation

Abstract

Realizing the Semantic Web involves creating ontologies, a tedious and costly challenge. Reuse can reduce the cost of ontology engineering. Semantic Web ontologies can provide useful input for ontology reuse. However, the automated reuse of such ontologies remains underexplored. This paper presents a generic architecture for automated ontology reuse. With our implementation of this architecture, we show the practicality of automating ontology generation through ontology reuse. We experimented with a large generic ontology as a basis for automatically generating domain ontologies that fit the scope of sample natural-language web pages. The results were encouraging, resulting in five lessons pertinent to future automated ontology reuse study.

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BiOSS: A system for biomedical ontology selection

“…Several authors have pointed out that reusing existing ontologies rather than creating new ones is a desirable practice [4][5][6][7]. Building an ontology from scratch is a very complex and time-consuming process, which requires specialized human resources.…”

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