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Merging Approach to Support the Incremental Design of Ontology |
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PP: 39-50 |
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doi:10.18576/amis/13S105
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Eman H. Alkhammash,
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Abstract |
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| Ontologies are used to formally describe the concepts, properties, and individuals within a domain to be automatically processed by computers. There are large number of ontologies on different domains available on the web. The existence of large number of ontologies imposed the need of merging tools and techniques to construct ontologies by integrating other ontologies. This paper proposes an ontology merging approach based on OntoGraf visualization to integrate the parts of interest of individual ontologies and allows to build ontology incrementally and fixing possible problems and inconsistency of the resulting ontology. The OntoGraf assists in understanding the concepts, properties, and individuals to be merged and assist in finding out possible conflicts before merging. The approach are applied to extend the development of Quran Corpus ontology by merging portion of Quran ontology that focuses on the living creatures and Allah’s Names ontology. The major benefit of proposed approach is to strengthen the reuse of ontology knowledge and encourages modularity in the design and development of ontologies. |
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