Module extraction and incremental classification: a pragmatic approach for ƐL+ ontologies

  • Authors:
  • Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn

  • Affiliations:
  • Theoretical Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The description logic ƐL+ has recently proved practically useful in the life science domain with presence of several large-scale biomedical ontologies such as SNOMED CT. To deal with ontologies of this scale, standard reasoning of classification is essential but not sufficient. The ability to extract relevant fragments from a large ontology and to incrementally classify it has become more crucial to support ontology design, maintenance and re-use. In this paper, we propose a pragmatic approach to module extraction and incremental classification for ƐL+ ontologies and report on empirical evaluations of our algorithms which have been implemented as an extension of the CEL reasoner.