A Pattern-Based Method for Re-Engineering Non-Ontological Resources into Ontologies

Boris Carmen Villazón-Terrazas, Mari Suárez-Figueroa and Asunción Gómez-Pérez
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Boris Carmen Villazón-Terrazas: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Mari Suárez-Figueroa: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 2010, vol. 6, issue 4, 27-63

Abstract: To speed up the ontology development process, ontology developers are reusing all available ontological and non-ontological resources, such as classification schemes, thesauri, lexicons, and so forth, that have already reached some consensus. Non-ontological resources are highly heterogeneous in their data model and storage system (or implementation). The reuse of these non-ontological resources involves their re-engineering into ontologies. This paper presents a method for re-engineering non-ontological resources into ontologies. The method is based on so-called re-engineering patterns, which define a procedure that transforms the non-ontological resource components into ontology representational primitives using WordNet for making explicit the relations among the non-ontological resource terms. The paper also provides the description of NOR2O, a software library that implements the transformations suggested by the patterns. Finally, it depicts an evaluation of the method, patterns, and software library proposed.

Date: 2010
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