Abstract
Concept naming over the taxonomic structure is a useful indicator of the quality of design as well as source of information exploitable for various tasks such as ontology refactoring and mapping. We analysed collections of OWL ontologies with the aim of determining the frequency of several combined name&graph patterns potentially indicating underlying semantic structures. Such structures range from simple set-theoretic subsumption to more complex constructions such as parallel taxonomies of different entity types. The final goal is to help refactor legacy ontologies as well as to ease automatic alignment among different models. The results show that in most ontologies there is a significant number of occurrences of such patterns. Moreover, their detection even using very simple methods has precision sufficient for a semi-automated analysis scenario.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Baumeister, J., Seipel, D.: Smelly Owls – Design Anomalies in Ontologies. In: Proc. FLAIRS 2005, pp. 215–220 (2005); Again, as the token matching is considered positively, reflecting thesaurus correspondence would improve the recall of the pattern detection
Ghidini, C., Serafini, L.: Reconciling concepts and relations in heterogeneous ontologies. In: Sure, Y., Domingue, J. (eds.) ESWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4011, pp. 50–64. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Giunchiglia, F., Marchese, M., Zaihrayeu, I.: Encoding Classifications into Lightweight Ontologies. In: Sure, Y., Domingue, J. (eds.) ESWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4011, pp. 80–94. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Hepp, M., de Bruijn, J.: GenTax: A Generic Methodology for Deriving OWL and RDF-S Ontologies from Hierarchical Classifications, Thesauri, and Inconsistent Taxonomies. In: Franconi, E., Kifer, M., May, W. (eds.) ESWC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4519, pp. 129–144. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Kavalec, M., Svátek, V.: Information Extraction and Ontology Learning Guided by Web Directory. In: ECAI Workshop on NLP and ML for ontology engineering, Lyon (2002)
Magnini, B., Serafini, L., Speranza, M.: Making Explicit the Hidden Semantics of Hierarchical Classifications. In: Proc. AI*IA 2003 (2003)
Meilicke, C., Völker, J., Stuckenschmidt, H.: Learning Disjointness for Debugging Mappings between Lightweight Ontologies. In: Gangemi, A., Euzenat, J. (eds.) EKAW 2008. LNCS(LNAI), vol. 5268, pp. 93–108. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Nirenburg, S., Wilks, Y.: Whats in a symbol: Ontology and the surface of language. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI 13, 9–23
Rector, A. (ed.): Representing Specified Values in OWL: ”value partitions” and ”value sets”. W3C Working Group Note (May 17, 2005), http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-specified-values/
Scharffe, F., Euzenat, J., Ding, Y., Fensel, D.: Correspondence Patterns for Ontology Mediation. In: Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC, Busan, Korea (2007)
Serafini, L., Zanobini, S., Sceffer, S., Bouquet, P.: Matching Hierarchical Classifications with Attributes. In: Sure, Y., Domingue, J. (eds.) ESWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4011, pp. 4–18. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Svátek, V.: Design Patterns for Semantic Web Ontologies: Motivation and Discussion. In: 7th Conf. on Business Information Systems (BIS 2004), Poznan (April 2004)
Svátek, V., Šváb, O.: Tracking Name Patterns in OWL Ontologies. In: EON-2007 at ISWC-2007, Busan, Korea (2007)
Šváb, O., Svátek, V., Stuckenschmidt, H.: Study in Empirical and ’Casuistic’ Analysis of Ontology Mapping Results. In: Franconi, E., Kifer, M., May, W. (eds.) ESWC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4519. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Tempich, C., Volz, R.: Towards a benchmark for Semantic Web reasoners - an analysis of the DAML ontology library. In: EON Workshop at ISWC (2003)
Vrandecic, D., Sure, Y.: How to Design Better Ontology Metrics. In: Franconi, E., Kifer, M., May, W. (eds.) ESWC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4519, pp. 311–325. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Šváb-Zamazal, O., Svátek, V. (2008). Analysing Ontological Structures through Name Pattern Tracking. In: Gangemi, A., Euzenat, J. (eds) Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns. EKAW 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5268. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87696-0_20
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87696-0_20
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-87695-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-87696-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)