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

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  • Boris Carmen Villazón-Terrazas

    (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

  • Mari Suárez-Figueroa

    (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

  • Asunción Gómez-Pérez

    (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

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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  • Boris Carmen Villazón-Terrazas & Mari Suárez-Figueroa & Asunción Gómez-Pérez, 2010. "A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies," International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), IGI Global, vol. 6(4), pages 27-63, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jswis0:v:6:y:2010:i:4:p:27-63
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