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A Roadmap to Ontology Specification Languages

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Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Methods, Models, and Tools (EKAW 2000)

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The interchange of ontologies across the World Wide Web (WWW) and the cooperation among heterogeneous agents placed on it is the main reason for the development of a new set of ontology specification languages, based on new web standards such as XML or RDF. These languages (SHOE, XOL, RDF, OIL, etc) aim to represent the knowledge contained in an ontology in a simple and human-readable way, as well as allow for the interchange of ontologies across the web. In this paper, we establish a common framework to compare the expressiveness and reasoning capabilities of „traditional” ontology languages (Ontolingua, OKBC, OCML, FLogic, LOOM) and „web-based” ontology languages, and conclude with the results of applying this framework to the selected languages.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, 28660, Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, Spain

    Oscar Corcho & Asunción Gómez-Pérez

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Corcho, O., Gómez-Pérez, A. (2000). A Roadmap to Ontology Specification Languages. In: Dieng, R., Corby, O. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Methods, Models, and Tools. EKAW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1937. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-39967-4_7

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