JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE

Nicolás Marín, Clara Sáez-Árcija, M. Amparo Vila

2011

Abstract

We present here a novel approach (and its implementation) for the automatic extraction of semantic knowledge from Java libraries. We want to match software libraries, so we need to obtain as much information as possible to use it in the matching process. For this purpose, this approach extracts information about the structure of the classes (i.e., name, fields and hierarchy), as well as information about the behavior of the classes (i.e., methods). In the literature, to our knowledge, it can be only found lightweight approaches to the extraction of this kind of information from Java object code. The approach is implemented in an automatic extraction tool (called {\em Jar2Ontology}) that has been developed as a plug-in of the Prot\'eg\'e Ontology and Knowledge Acquisition System. Jar2Ontology extracts the semantics from Java libraries and translates it into OWL (Ontology Web Language).

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Marín N., Sáez-Árcija C. and Amparo Vila M. (2011). JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-53-9, pages 267-276. DOI: 10.5220/0003510302670276


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Marín N., Sáez-Árcija C. and Amparo Vila M. (2011). JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE . In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-53-9, pages 267-276. DOI: 10.5220/0003510302670276


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@conference{iceis11,
author={Nicolás Marín and Clara Sáez-Árcija and M. Amparo Vila},
title={JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={267-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003510302670276},
isbn={978-989-8425-53-9},
}


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@conference{iceis11,
author={Nicolás Marín and Clara Sáez-Árcija and M. Amparo Vila},
title={JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2011},
pages={267-276},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003510302670276},
isbn={978-989-8425-53-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE
SN - 978-989-8425-53-9
AU - Marín N.
AU - Sáez-Árcija C.
AU - Amparo Vila M.
PY - 2011
SP - 267
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DO - 10.5220/0003510302670276


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - JAR2ONTOLOGY - A TOOL FOR AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION OF SEMANTIC INFORMATION FROM JAVA OBJECT CODE
SN - 978-989-8425-53-9
AU - Marín N.
AU - Sáez-Árcija C.
AU - Amparo Vila M.
PY - 2011
SP - 267
EP - 276
DO - 10.5220/0003510302670276