The model of roles within an ontology development tool: Hozo

One of the major goals of ontology is to represent properly the underlying conceptual structure of the messy world reflecting the reality as much as possible. Ontology building tools should be designed to help developers create good ontologies. However, few of them can deal with roles adequately. Needless to say, the world is full of roles (e.g., wife, teacher, president, fuel, food, product, output, height) although there has been extensive theoretical research on roles, we do not yet have a comprehensive and usable theory yet. Our group has already constructed an ontology-development tool known as Hozo which has the ability to deal with roles. However, although Hozo allows users to represent roles better than other existing tools, the underlying theoretical foundations are still unclear and there is some room for improvement concerning the generality of how to deal with roles. In this paper, as an extension of the Hozo framework for roles, we present a framework for organizing role ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: AO
• Authors: Riichiro Mizoguchi, Eiichi Sunagawa, Kouji Kozaki, Yoshinobu Kitamura
• Keywords: AO 2007, Extensive Theoretical Research, Major Goals, Ontology Building Tools