Ontologies and Lexical Semantic Networks, Their Editing and Browsing

SMRŽ, Pavel and Martin POVOLNÝ. Ontologies and Lexical Semantic Networks, Their Editing and Browsing. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2004. Calgary, Alberta, Canada: ACTA Press, 2004, p. 842-846. ISBN 0-88986-404-7.

Basic information

• Original name: Ontologies and Lexical Semantic Networks, Their Editing and Browsing
• Name in Czech: Ontologie a sémantické sítě, jejich editace a prohlížení
• Authors: SMRŽ, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Martin POVOLNÝ (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications, AIA 2004, p. 842-846, 5 pp. 2004.
• Publisher: ACTA Press

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Austria
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/04:00010455
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 0-88986-404-7
• UT WoS: 000228622100145
• Keywords in English: ontologies
• Tags: ontologies

Abstract

The Semantic Web vision depends on the definition of ontologies as no real-world knowledge-based system of the future Web can achieve satisfactory results without a broad-coverage ontology. It is clear that to be able to enter the semantic web era successfully, the problems of building general-purpose ontologies must be solved. This paper presents OASIS -- a new ontology authoring system that enables manual as well as (semi)automatic conversion of existing knowledge bases, semantic networks, terminological databases and various other resources to complex ontologies in OWL. The tool is implemented as a client of DEB (Dictionary Editor and Browser) which is able to store, index and efficiently retrieve lexical data. The architecture is based on XML and related W3C standards (XSLT, XML Schema, XPath, DOM). The main feature which brings the efficiency of retrieval is the extension of a standard XSLT processor with the ability to obtain additional data from the dictionary server through the mechanism of nested queries. This technique allows formulation of complex constraints needed in the conversion to OWL.

Abstract (in Czech)

Příspěvek popisuje systém OASIS = nový systém pro vytváření ontologií, umožňující manuální i poloautomatickou konverzi existujících znalostních bází, sémantických sítí, terminologických databází a jiných zdrojů v XML do ontologií ve formátu OWL.

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