Concept Analysis of OWL Ontology Based on the Context Family Model

The core of the semantic Web is ontology, which supports interoperability among semantic Web applications and enables developer to reuse and share domain knowledge. The process of building an ontology is a high-cost process. The reality is that the construction of ontologies is an art rather than a science. Therefore, methodologies and supporting tools are essential to help the developer construct suitable ontologies for the given purposes and to verify the ontology its fitness of purpose and its reusability. In this paper we propose a novel approach for analyzing ontologies based on the formal concept analysis (FCA) with context family model and build a new tool that extracts main elements (class, property and individual etc.) from the source code of Web ontology language (OWL) and then detects some structural problems. By using the tool, ontology developer can build and/or reconstruct "well-defined" and "good" ontologies.

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