KANNEL : a framework for detecting and managing semantic relations between ontologies

In Semantic Web search engines such as Watson, or in large ontology repositories, we need to make explicit existing, implicit relations between ontologies in order to better support users and applications in selecting the "best" or the "right" ontologies according to their goals. We describe KANNEL, a framework for detecting and managing ontology relations in large ontology repositories. KANNEL relies on an ontology based approach. A complex ontology of relationships between ontologies is first formalized, and specialized detection mechanisms are devised for extracting particular relations from the repository. The ontology can then be used with reasoning mechanisms to query ontology relations and infer new ones.

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