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Ontology Design Pattern Detection - Initial Method and Usage Scenarios

Authors:
Muhammad Tahir Khan
Eva Blomqvist

Keywords: Ontology Design Patterns, Ontology Engineering

Abstract:
Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) are emerging as an important support for ontology engineering. In this paper, we show how a method for detecting Content ODPs in existing ontologies can be used as a means to characterize online ontologies, e.g., for finding, browsing and analyzing them, as well as a means of analyzing an ontology being built, by detecting partial instantiations of a Content ODP in that ontology. The main contribution of this paper is the simple but effective method for pattern detection, together with its initial evaluation, as well as the study made on online ontologies providing an overview of Content ODP usage in real-world ontologies as well as a proof-of concept of the proposed method.

Pages: 19 to 24

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4510

ISBN: 978-1-61208-104-5

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010