Extending SWRL Rules to Integrate Object-Oriented Techniques in Hybrid Ontologies
Souad Bouaicha, Zizette Boufaida
International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jcl/fulltext/v3n3/1.pdf
Abstract:
Scalability of ontology reasoning is a key factor in the practical adoption of ontology technologies. To improve the quality of reasoning on a simple ontology, we propose to enrich the comportment of the ontology concepts by rules. This enrichment is done by extending a version of SWRL and its execution in Jess. The extending of SWRL rules consists of adding new keywords as OWL ontology classes and properties, and post-translating them by using rewriting meta-rules. These rules adapt the technique of Object-Oriented programming and create a new hybrid ontology. The reasoning on this hybrid ontology makes it possible to improve in terms of results the quality of the previous reasoning. To mention and clarify the importance of this kind of reasoning, we use a case study inherent to interpret a check up in preventive medicine.