Citation
Aguado de Cea, G. and Gómez-Pérez, A. and Montiel-Ponsoda, Elena and Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen
(2008).
Natural Language-based Approach for Helping in the Reuse of Ontology Design Patterns.
In: "16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Knowledge Patterns (EKAW 2008)", 29 de septiembre -3 de octubre de 2008, Acitrezza, Catania, Italia. ISBN 978-3-540-87695-3.
Abstract
Experiments in the reuse of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have
revealed that users with different levels of expertise in ontology modelling face
difficulties when reusing ODPs. With the aim of tackling this problem we propose
a method and a tool for supporting a semi-automatic reuse of ODPs that
takes as input formulations in natural language (NL) of the domain aspect to be
modelled, and obtains as output a set of ODPs for solving the initial ontological
needs. The correspondence between ODPs and NL formulations is done
through Lexico-Syntactic Patterns, linguistic constructs that convey the semantic
relations present in ODPs, and which constitute the main contribution of this
paper. The main benefit of the proposed approach is the use of non-restricted
NL formulations in various languages for obtaining ODPs. The use of full NL
poses challenges in the disambiguation of linguistic expressions that we expect
to solve with user interaction, among other strategies.