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Browsing Through OWL Domain Ontologies

Authors:
Christian Kop

Keywords: semantic web, OWL, verbalization, summary, relevant classes, key classes, ontologies, visualization

Abstract:
There is a trend to see ontologies not as one big specification of a certain domain but to see it as a network of interrelated units. This paper will propose an approach and a tool, which allows the user to navigate through a network of ontology documents. The user will be supported by two different presentation techniques (graphical visualization and verbalization). Furthermore, s/he will be provided with information about relevant (key) classes and with a textual summary report of the ontology. Apart from the visualization of specific OWL domain ontologies, s/he will also get support for the visualization of the ontology network in which a domain ontology specification is just a unit, which is related to other units. Hence, a tool is introduced, which allows to present ontologies in different ways.

Pages: 184 to 194

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2010. Used with permission.

Publication date: April 6, 2011

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2652