A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Towards a declarative approach for reusing domain ontologies
Information Systems - Special issue on selected papers from 6th annual workshop on information technologies and systems, December 1996, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Knowledge Engineering Review
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Translating ontologies from a source language towards a target one is a required process both for the conception of a new ontology from existing ones (reuse) and for common use of an ontology by different knowledge based systems. The usual approach for translation is based upon the existence of a translator for each pair of languages from and to which the ontology must be translated. Therefore, several translating tools are necessary. We propose a translation approach which employs a unique translator no matter what source and target languages are involved. It relies on two principal components. The first one is a meta-language called M_Kif which extends the Kif language with the concept of meta-relation to describe representation ontologies. The second one is a pivot representation which unifies different styles of representations. The translation tool is an interpretation program of the meta-relation definitions specified in the source and target representation ontologies.