Tackling the Ontology Acquisition Bottleneck: An Experiment in Ontology Re-Engineering

Ontologies form the backbone of the Semantics Web. They provide explicit descriptions of the conceptualization underlying available information. The effort involved in creating and maintaining ontologies is one of the most severe obstacles to a wide adoption of semantic web technology. In this paper, we address the problem of creating ontologies for the semantic and describe experiences with an approach that combines automated extraction of conceptual models from existing information sources with state-of-the-art methodologies and tools for ontological engineering. We further discuss tool interoperation based on semantic web technology as an enabler for successful ontology maintenance.

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