DOLCE ergo SUMO: On foundational and domain models in the SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (SWIntO)

  • Authors:

  • Daniel Oberle;Anupriya Ankolekar;Pascal Hitzler;Philipp Cimiano;Michael Sintek;Malte Kiesel;Babak Mougouie;Stephan Baumann;Shankar Vembu;Massimo Romanelli;Paul Buitelaar;Ralf Engel;Daniel Sonntag;Norbert Reithinger;Berenike Loos;Hans-Peter Zorn;Vanessa Micelli;Robert Porzel;Christian Schmidt;Moritz Weiten;Felix Burkhardt;Jianshen Zhou

  • Affiliations:

  • Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany and Now at SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Germany;Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany;Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany;Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany;DFKI KM, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI KM, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI KM, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI KM, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Now at SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe, Germany;DFKI IUI & LT, Saarbrüücken, Germany;DFKI IUI & LT, Saarbrüücken, Germany;DFKI IUI & LT, Saarbrüücken, Germany;DFKI IUI & LT, Saarbrüücken, Germany;DFKI IUI & LT, Saarbrüücken, Germany;European Media Lab (EML), Heidelberg, Germany;European Media Lab (EML), Heidelberg, Germany;European Media Lab (EML), Heidelberg, Germany;Arbeitsgruppe Digitale Medien, Universität Bremen, Germany;Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany;Ontoprise GmbH, Karlsruhe, Germany;T-Systems, Berlin, Germany;T-Systems, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Increased availability of mobile computing, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs), creates the potential for constant and intelligent access to up-to-date, integrated and detailed information from the Web, regardless of one's actual geographical position. Intelligent question-answering requires the representation of knowledge from various domains, such as the navigational and discourse context of the user, potential user questions, the information provided by Web services and so on, for example in the form of ontologies. Within the context of the SmartWeb project, we have developed a number of domain-specific ontologies that are relevant for mobile and intelligent user interfaces to open-domain question-answering and information services on the Web. To integrate the various domain-specific ontologies, we have developed a foundational ontology, the SmartSUMO ontology, on the basis of the DOLCE and SUMO ontologies. This allows us to combine all the developed ontologies into a single SmartWeb Integrated Ontology (SWIntO) having a common modeling basis with conceptual clarity and the provision of ontology design patterns for modeling consistency. In this paper, we present SWIntO, describe the design choices we made in its construction, illustrate the use of the ontology through a number of applications, and discuss some of the lessons learned from our experiences.