Why Evaluate Ontology Technologies? Because It Works!
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Taxonomy learning: factoring the structure of a taxonomy into a semantic classification decision
COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Ontology Matching
NCI Thesaurus: A semantic model integrating cancer-related clinical and molecular information
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Extracting Modules from Ontologies: A Logic-Based Approach
Modular Ontologies
Traversing Ontologies to Extract Views
Modular Ontologies
Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization
Modular Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge Modularization
Combining vocabulary alignment techniques
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Knowledge capture
What Four Million Mappings Can Tell You about Two Hundred Ontologies
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
A cell-cycle knowledge integration framework
DILS'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Applying Semantic Web Technologies to Ontology Alignment
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
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The problem of ontology modularization is an active area of research in the Semantic Web community. With the emergence and wider use of very large ontologies, in particular in fields such as biomedicine, more and more application developers need to extract meaningful modules of these ontologies to use in their applications. Researchers have also noted that many ontology-maintenance tasks would be simplified if we could extract modules from ontologies. These tasks include ontology matching: If we can separate ontologies into modules based on the topics that these modules cover, we can simplify and improve ontology matching. In this paper, we study a complementary problem: Can we use existing mappings between ontologies to facilitate modularization? We present a novel approach to modularization based on mappings between ontologies. We validate and analyze our approach by applying our methods to identify modules for National Cancer Institutes Thesaurus (NCI Thesaurus) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine--Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT).