CLOnE: controlled language for ontology editing

  • Authors:

  • Adam Funk;Valentin Tablan;Kalina Bontcheva;Hamish Cunningham;Brian Davis;Siegfried Handschuh

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Sheffield, UK;University of Sheffield, UK;University of Sheffield, UK;University of Sheffield, UK;Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland;Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper presents a controlled language for ontology editing and a software implementation, based partly on standard NLP tools, for processing that language and manipulating an ontology. The input sentences are analysed deterministically and compositionally with respect to a given ontology, which the software consults in order to interpret the input's semantics; this allows the user to learn fewer syntactic structures since some of them can be used to refer to either classes or instances, for example. A repeated-measures, task-based evaluation has been carried out in comparison with a well-known ontology editor; our software received favourable results for basic tasks. The paper also discusses work in progress and future plans for developing this language and tool.