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A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies

A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies

Boris Carmen Villazón-Terrazas, Mari Suárez-Figueroa, Asunción Gómez-Pérez
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 38
ISBN13: 9781466601857|ISBN10: 146660185X|EISBN13: 9781466601864
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0185-7.ch002
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Villazón-Terrazas, Boris Carmen, et al. "A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies." Semantic-Enabled Advancements on the Web: Applications Across Industries, edited by Amit Sheth, IGI Global, 2012, pp. 17-54. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0185-7.ch002

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Villazón-Terrazas, B. C., Suárez-Figueroa, M., & Gómez-Pérez, A. (2012). A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies. In A. Sheth (Ed.), Semantic-Enabled Advancements on the Web: Applications Across Industries (pp. 17-54). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0185-7.ch002

Chicago

Villazón-Terrazas, Boris Carmen, Mari Suárez-Figueroa, and Asunción Gómez-Pérez. "A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies." In Semantic-Enabled Advancements on the Web: Applications Across Industries, edited by Amit Sheth, 17-54. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2012. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0185-7.ch002

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Abstract

To speed up the ontology development process, ontology developers are reusing all available ontological and non-ontological resources, such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons, and so forth, that have already reached some consensus. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and storage system (or implementation). The reuse of these non-ontological resources involves their re-engineering into ontologies. This paper presents a method for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies. The method is based on so-called re-engineering patterns, which define a procedure that transforms the non-ontological resource components into ontology representational primitives using WordNet for making explicit the relations among the non-ontological resource terms. The paper also provides the description of NOR2O, a software library that implements the transformations suggested by the patterns. Finally, it depicts an evaluation of the method, patterns, and software library proposed.

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