Abstract:
There is no doubt that those large-scale domain ontologies are playing a critical role in building a large variety of semantic-based systems. It’s important and urgent to share and reuse large-scale ontologies to support semantic-based applications in a more efficient way. In this paper, we propose a web-based toolkit for building and reusing large-scale ontologies. The toolkit consists of a web-based ontology editor as well as a modulation-based API for ontology reuse. The web-based ontology editor supports cooperative online development of large-scale ontologies. It distinguishes itself from other editors by an easy-to-use interface. A modulation-based API is implemented for manipulating modulation from large-scale ontologies. It makes it possible to extract frequently-used portions from large-scale ontologies and cache those portions of knowledge in database for potential reuse. Moreover, we have evaluated the performance of the toolkit by simulation and application. In summary, the proposed toolkit is able to support building and reusing largescale ontologies.
Page(s):
86-91
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Year: 2012