ModOnto: A Tool for Modularizing Ontologies

During the last three years there has been growing interest and consequently active research on ontology modularization. This paper presents a concrete tool that incorporates an approach to ontology modularization that inherits some of the main principles from object-oriented software engineering, which are encapsulation and information hiding. What motivated us to track that direction is the fact that most ontology approaches to the problem focus on linking ontologies (or modules) rather than building modules that can encapsulate foreign parts of ontologies (or other modules) that can be managed more easily.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WONTO
• Authors: Camila Bezerra, Frederico Luiz Gonçalves de Freitas, Antoine Zimmermann, Jérôme Euzenat
• Keywords: Natural Language Processing, Object-oriented Software Engineering, Ontology Approaches, Ontology Modularization, WONTO 2008