Ontology Translation on the Semantic Web

Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature makes ontology translation one of the most difficult problems that web-based agents must cope with when they share information. Ontology translation is required when translating datasets, generating ontology extensions and querying through different ontologies. OntoMerge, an online system by ontology merging and automated reasoning, can implement ontology translation with inputs and outputs in DAML+OIL or other web languages. The merge of two related ontologies is obtained by taking the union of the concepts and the axioms defining them. We add bridging axioms not only as “bridges” between concepts in two related ontologies but also to make this merge into a new ontology for further merging with other ontologies. Our uniform internal representation, Web-PDDL, is a strong typed first-order logic language f...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: COOPIS
• Authors: Dejing Dou, Drew V. McDermott, Peishen Qi
• Keywords: COOPIS 2003, Information System, Nature Makes Ontology, Ontologies, Ontology Translation