Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring

Yuan Ren; Artemis Parvizi; Chris Mellish; Jeff Z. Pan; Kees van Deemter; Robert Stevens

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_50

Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring

Yuan Ren, Artemis Parvizi, Chris Mellish, Jeff Z. Pan, Kees van Deemter, Robert Stevens

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Abstract

Ontology authoring is a non-trivial task for authors who are not proficient in logic. It is difficult to either specify the requirements for an ontology, or test their satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this problem by leveraging the ideas of competency questions and test-before software development. We first analyse real-world competency questions collected from two different domains. Analysis shows that many of them can be categorised into patterns that differ along a set of features. Then we employ the linguistic notion of presupposition to describe the ontology requirements implied by competency questions, and show that these requirements can be tested automatically.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges
Subtitle of host publication	11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings
Editors	Valentina Presutti, Claudia d'Amato, Fabien Gandon, Mathieu d'Aquin, Steffen Staab, Anna Tordai
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	752-767
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-07443-6
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-07442-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_50
Publication status	Published - 9 May 2014
Event	11th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014 - Anissaras, Greece Duration: 25 May 2014 → 29 May 2014 Conference number: 11 https://2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.html

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Volume	8465
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	11th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014
Abbreviated title	ESWC 2014
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Anissaras
Period	25/05/14 → 29/05/14
Internet address	https://2014.eswc-conferences.org/index.html

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Ren, Y., Parvizi, A., Mellish, C., Pan, J. Z., van Deemter, K., & Stevens, R. (2014). Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring. In V. Presutti, C. d'Amato, F. Gandon, M. d'Aquin, S. Staab, & A. Tordai (Eds.), The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 752-767). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8465). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_50

Ren, Yuan ; Parvizi, Artemis ; Mellish, Chris et al. / Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring. The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings. editor / Valentina Presutti ; Claudia d'Amato ; Fabien Gandon ; Mathieu d'Aquin ; Steffen Staab ; Anna Tordai. Cham : Springer, 2014. pp. 752-767 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Ren, Y, Parvizi, A, Mellish, C, Pan, JZ, van Deemter, K & Stevens, R 2014, Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring. in V Presutti, C d'Amato, F Gandon, M d'Aquin, S Staab & A Tordai (eds), The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 8465, Springer, Cham, pp. 752-767, 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference 2014, Anissaras, Greece, 25/05/14. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_50

Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring. / Ren, Yuan; Parvizi, Artemis; Mellish, Chris et al.
The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings. ed. / Valentina Presutti; Claudia d'Amato; Fabien Gandon; Mathieu d'Aquin; Steffen Staab; Anna Tordai. Cham: Springer, 2014. p. 752-767 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 8465).

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Ren Y, Parvizi A, Mellish C, Pan JZ, van Deemter K, Stevens R. Towards Competency Question-Driven Ontology Authoring. In Presutti V, d'Amato C, Gandon F, d'Aquin M, Staab S, Tordai A, editors, The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2014. p. 752-767. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-07443-6_50

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