| Link from here | Target |
|---|
| swrc-ext:authorList |
| rdf:type | swc:Poster |
| foaf:maker | person:catherine-dolbear |
| foaf:maker | person:glen-hart |
| foaf:maker | person:john-goodwin |
| swrc:url | http://www.webont.org/owled/2007/PapersPDF/submission_1.pdf |
| swc:uuid | 5008acce-0a4a-488e-8fad-8e545820ed0f |
| dc:title | Lege Feliciter: Using Structured English to represent a Topographic Hydrology Ontology |
| rdfs:label | Lege Feliciter: Using Structured English to represent a Topographic Hydrology Ontology |
| swrc:keywords | OWL |
| swrc:keywords | Semantics |
| swrc:keywords | Structured English |
| swrc:abstract | The mathematical nature of description logics has meant that domain experts find it
hard to understand. This forms a significant impediment to the creation and adoption of
ontologies. A number of approaches are being taken to attempt to mitigate this problem. The
two most common approaches are to provide an English like syntactic veneer to OWL, or to
provide a way to convert OWL statements to English to render them more readable. This paper
introduces a constrained English language called Rabbit that has been designed to better
enable domain experts to author ontologies in a way that is understandable to them. Rabbit
is intended to improve on existing methods through: greater clarity of expression due to the
involvement of the domain expert both in the development of Rabbit, its authoring and use;
the ability to hide certain modelling complexities and optimisations; and encouragement,
through its grammar, to produce short sentences that are more easily interpretable. We see
Rabbit as complementary to OWL, extending its reach to those who need to author and
understand domain ontologies but from whom descriptions logics are difficult to comprehend. |
| swrc:keywords | ontology |
| swrc:keywords | topography |
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