OWL-AA: Enriching OWL with Instance Recognition Semantics for Automated Semantic Annotation

Although OWL provides a solid basis for many semantic web applications, it lacks sufficient declarative semantics for instance recognition to support automated semantic annotation. This omission prevents OWL from being a satisfactory ontology language for automated semantic annotation. This problem can be solved by adding declarative instance recognition semantics to OWL. Our declarative instance recognition semantics include external representations and context recognition information of ontology concepts. The implementation shows that the new automated annotation prototype system using OWL ontologies with rich declarative instance semantics works well.