Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua

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Bibtype techreport

Has publishing details April,1997

Has title Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua

Has where published KSL-97-03

Has year 1997

Title Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua

Year 1997

Abstract The Ontolingua ontology development enviro … The Ontolingua ontology development environment provides a suite of ontology authoring tools and a library of modular, reusable ontologies. The environment is available as a World Wide Web service and has a substantial user community. The tools in Ontolingua are oriented toward the authoring of ontologies by assembling and extending ontologies obtained from the library. In this paper, we describe Ontolingua's formalism for combining the axioms, definitions, and words (non-logical symbols) of multiple ontologies. We also describe Ontolingua's facilities that enable renaming of words non-logical symbols from multiple component ontologies and that provide unambiguous mapping between words and text strings disambiguate symbol references during input and output. These features of Ontolingua support cyclic inclusion graphs and enable users to extend ontologies in multiple ways such as adding simplifying assumptions and extending the domains of polymorphic operators. ding the domains of polymorphic operators.

Address Stanford, CA, USA +

Author Richard Fikes and Adam Farquhar and James Rice +

Has author Richard Fikes and Adam Farquhar and James Rice +

Has identifier Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua +

Institution Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory +

Ksl tr id Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua +

Month April +

Number Tools for Assembling Modular Ontologies in Ontolingua +

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Categories KSL Technical Report +, Publication +, Technical Report +