Parsing owl dl: trees or triples?

The Web Ontology Language (OWL) defines three classes of documents: Lite, DL and Full. All RDF/XML documents are OWL Full documents, some OWL Full documents are also OWL DL documents, and some OWL DL documents are also OWL Lite documents. This paper discusses parsing and species recognition ? that is the process of determining whether a given document falls into the OWL Lite, DL or Full class. We describe two alternative apto this task, one based on abstract syntax trees, the other on RDF triples, and compare their key characteristics. Categories and Subject Descriptors I.2.4 [Artificial Intelligence]: Knowledge Representation Formalisms and Methods--Representation languages; D.3.4 [Programming Languages]: Processors--Parsing General Terms Algorithms, Languages, Performance Keywords Semantic Web, OWL, Parsing, RDF

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Sean Bechhofer, Jeremy J. Carroll
• Keywords: Internet Technology, OWL DL Documents, OWL Full Documents, OWL Lite Documents, WWW 2004