Semantic Import: An Approach for Partial Ontology Reuse

Jeff Z Pan; Luciano Serafini; Yuting Zhao

Semantic Import: An Approach for Partial Ontology Reuse

Jeff Z Pan, Luciano Serafini, Yuting Zhao

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As more and more applications use ontology to represent semantic information, how to support ontology reuse is becoming more and more important. In the OWL Web Ontology Language, the main primitive for ontology reuse is owl:imports. However, this “copy-andpaste” approach suffers a number of problems. In this paper, we propose a new import primitive, called semantic import, to facilitate partial ontology reuse. The main contributions of this paper include the semantics of semantic import and reasoning support for TBox reasoning in simple ontology spaces, where an ontology semantically imports vocabulary from another ontology. The semantic import approach provides a brand new way for partial ontology reuse.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, WoMO'06.
Editors	Peter Haase, Vasant Honavar, Oliver Kutz, York Sure, Andrei Tamilin
Publisher	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Number of pages	14
Volume	232
Publication status	Published - 29 Jan 2007
Event	1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies - Athens, United States Duration: 5 Nov 2006 → 5 Nov 2006 Conference number: 1

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Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	CEUR-WS.org
Volume	232
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

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Workshop	1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies
Abbreviated title	WoMo 2006
Country/Territory	United States
City	Athens
Period	5/11/06 → 5/11/06

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Pan, JZ, Serafini, L & Zhao, Y 2007, Semantic Import: An Approach for Partial Ontology Reuse. in P Haase, V Honavar, O Kutz, Y Sure & A Tamilin (eds), Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, WoMO'06.. vol. 232, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 232, CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, Athens, Georgia, United States, 5/11/06. <http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-232/paper6.pdf>

Semantic Import: An Approach for Partial Ontology Reuse. / Pan, Jeff Z; Serafini, Luciano; Zhao, Yuting.
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, WoMO'06.. ed. / Peter Haase; Vasant Honavar; Oliver Kutz; York Sure; Andrei Tamilin. Vol. 232 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2007. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 232).

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