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Lexicon Based Ontology Construction

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Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II (SELMAS 2003)

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In order to secure interoperability and allow autonomous agent interaction, software for the web will be required to provide machine processable ontologies. Traditional deliverables of the software development process are the code, technical documentation, to support development and maintenance and use documentation, to provide user support. In the case of web applications, ontologies will also be part of the deliverables. Ontologies will allow machines to process and integrate Web resources intelligently, enable quick and accurate web search, and facilitate communication between a multitude of heterogeneous web-accessible agents [1]. We understand that the responsibility, not only for making explicit this requirement, but also to implement the ontology, belongs to software engineers. Currently the development of ontologies is more of a craft then a systematic discipline. We are proposing a process for the systematic construction of ontologies, centered on the concept of application languages. This concept is rooted on a representation scheme called the language extended lexicon (LEL). We demonstrate our approach using an example in which we implement a machine processable ontology for a meeting scheduler using the ontology language DAML+OIL.

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  1. PUC-Rio, Computer Science Department, LES, Rua Marquês de São Vicente 225, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Karin Koogan Breitman & Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite

  2. On leave at Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 10 King’s College Road, Toronto, M5S3G4, Canada

    Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite

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  1. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Carlos Lucena

  2. Computer Science Department, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marques de Sao Vicente, 225, 22453-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Alessandro Garcia

  3. Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

    Alexander Romanovsky

  4. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil

    Jaelson Castro

  5. School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Paulo S. C. Alencar

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Breitman, K.K., Sampaio do Prado Leite, J.C. (2004). Lexicon Based Ontology Construction. In: Lucena, C., Garcia, A., Romanovsky, A., Castro, J., Alencar, P.S.C. (eds) Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems II. SELMAS 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24625-1_2

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