A.Gangemi

A.Gómez-Pérez

C.Alexander

D.Soergel

G.Hirst

J.Barrasa

J.Gracia

M. C.Suárez-Figueroa

M.Hepp

M.Van Assem

P.Clark

R.Kimball

S.Wright

To speed up the ontology development process, ontology developers are reusing all available ontological and non-ontological resources, such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons, and so forth, that have already reached some consensus. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and storage system (or implementation). The reuse of these non-ontological resources involves their re-engineering into ontologies. This paper presents a method for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies. The method is based on so-called re-engineering patterns, which define a procedure that transforms the non-ontological resource components into ontology representational primitives using WordNet for making explicit the relations among the non-ontological resource terms. The paper also provides the description of NOR2O, a software library that implements the transformations suggested by the patterns. Finally, it depicts an evaluation of the method, patterns, and software library proposed.</p

Boris Carmen Villazón-Terrazas

Mari Suárez-Figueroa

Asunción Gómez-Pérez

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International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies

A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies

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