This paper describes a new syntax that can be used to write OWL 2 ontologies. The syntax, which is known as TEX-OWL, was developed to address the need for an easy-to-read and easy-to-write plain text syntax. TEX-OWL is inspired by LTEX syntax, and covers all construct of OWL 2. We designed TEXOWL to be less verbose than the other OWL syntaxes, and easy-to-use especially for quickly developing s...

Both ISO's Topic Map Standards and the W3C's Semantic Web Recommendations provide the means to construct meta-level semantic maps describing relationships between information resources. Developed independently, attempts at interoperability between the original Topic Map standard and RDF have proved challenging. However, ISO 13250's drafting of an explicit Topic Map Data Model (TMDM) early in 20...

Title of dissertation: DEBUGGING AND REPAIR OF OWL ONTOLOGIES Aditya Kalyanpur, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor James Hendler Department of Computer Science With the advent of Semantic Web languages such as OWL (Web Ontology Language), the expressive Description Logic SHOIN is exposed to a wider audience of ontology users and developers. As an increasingly large n...

OWL-S [1] is one of the emerging standards for the semantic description of web services in order to enable their automatic discovery, execution and composition by software agents. An important task within automatic execution of an OWL-S service is the bi-directional mapping between semantically higher level OWL-S service parameter descriptions and primitive XML Schema types of its grounding. OW...

This paper describes a proposed new syntax that can be used to write and read OWL ontologies in Controlled Natural Language (CNL): a well-defined subset of the English language. Following the lead of Manchester OWL Syntax in making OWL more accessible for non-logicians, and building on the previous success of Schwitter’s PENG (Processable English), the proposed Sydney OWL Syntax enables two-way...

The Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) represents the result of manual and disciplined modeling of the structural organization of the human body. It is a tremendous resource in bioinformatics that facilitates sharing of information among applications that use anatomy knowledge. The FMA was developed in Protégé and the Protégé frames language is the canonical representation language for the FMA...

The desire to share and reuse knowledge has led to the establishment of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) knowledge representation language. The Naturnet-Redime project needs to share qualitative knowledge models of issues relevant to sustainable development and OWL seems the obvious choice for representing such models to allow search and other activities relevant to sharing knowledge models. How...