POEM: An Ontology Manager Based on Existence Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Nadira Lammari;Cédric Mouza;Elisabeth Métais

  • Affiliations:
  • Lab. CEDRIC, CNAM, Paris, France;Lab. CEDRIC, CNAM, Paris, France;Lab. CEDRIC, CNAM, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • DEXA '08 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Whereas building and enriching ontologies are complex and tedious tasks, only few tools propose a complete solution to assist users. This paper presents POEM (Platform for Ontology crEation and Management) which provides a complete environment for ontology building, merge and evolution. POEM's algorithms are based on existence constraints and Boolean equations that allow to capture the semantic of concepts. POEM also integrates a semantic fusion that relies on WordNet and supports different storage formats. The different functionalities are implemented as a set of web services.