Presented at: 11th ESWC 2014 (ESWC2014)
by Yuan Ren, Artemis Parvizi, Chris Mellish, Jeff Z. Pan, Kees Van Deemter, Robert Stevens
Ontology authoring is a non-trivial task for novice authors who are not proficient in logics. It is difficult to either specify the requirements to an ontology, or test the satisfaction of them. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to addressing this problem by leveraging the ideas of competency questions and test-driven software development. We first analyse real-world competency questions collected from two different domains. Analysis shows that many of them can be categorised into several frequent patterns that differ along a set of features. Then we employ the notion of presupposition from linguistics to describe the ontology requirements implied by competency questions, and show that these presuppositions can be tested automatically.
Keywords: Ontology Engineering, Ontology Testing, Competency Question
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