COMMON LANUGAGES FOR SEMANTIC WWW - Beyond RDF and OWL

Seiji Koide, Hideaki Takeda

2010

Abstract

OWL has established itself as a standard of ontology description language not only in Semantic Web but also in diverse disciplines and engineering fields. However, endeavors to describe ontology in OWL are revealing the extent of ability on the OWL current specification in practical views. In this paper, we see an overview of basic assumptions of knowledge representation languages for Semantic Web, and point out several basic and problematic issues of OWL, which are captured by our own experience of developing a language processor called SWCLOS, the first OWL Full processor developed on top of Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), and we address our approach to solve them. It includes explicit descriptions of role concepts, auto-epistemic local closed world assumption, ternary truth values, and unique name assumption for atomic objects. These settings are implemented into SWCLOS. Finally, we envision the direction of languages for semantic WWW.

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Koide S. and Takeda H. (2010). COMMON LANUGAGES FOR SEMANTIC WWW - Beyond RDF and OWL . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 86-95. DOI: 10.5220/0002999000860095


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@conference{enase10,
author={Seiji Koide and Hideaki Takeda},
title={COMMON LANUGAGES FOR SEMANTIC WWW - Beyond RDF and OWL},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={86-95},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002999000860095},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - COMMON LANUGAGES FOR SEMANTIC WWW - Beyond RDF and OWL
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - Koide S.
AU - Takeda H.
PY - 2010
SP - 86
EP - 95
DO - 10.5220/0002999000860095