Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice
Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice
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2010-08
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R. Power;Allan Third
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作者：
R. Power;Allan Third
随着 OWL（Web 本体语言）被确立为语义 Web 上本体编码的标准，人们的兴趣开始集中在用受控英语（或其他自然语言）表达 OWL 代码的任务上。当前执行此任务的方法假设 OWL 中的公理可以映射到英语句子。我们研究了这种方法的三个潜在问题（关于逻辑复杂性、信息结构和大小），并表明虽然这些问题在理论上可能会导致无法克服的困难，但在实践中它们很少出现，因为本体开发人员以有利于透明映射的方式使用 OWL。对大约 200 个本体中超过 600,000 个公理的语料库的模式分析证明了这一结果。
With OWL (Web Ontology Language) established as a standard for encoding ontologies on the Semantic Web, interest has begun to focus on the task of verbalising OWL code in controlled English (or other natural language). Current approaches to this task assume that axioms in OWL can be mapped to sentences in English. We examine three potential problems with this approach (concerning logical sophistication, information structure, and size), and show that although these could in theory lead to insuperable difficulties, in practice they seldom arise, because ontology developers use OWL in ways that favour a transparent mapping. This result is evidenced by an analysis of patterns from a corpus of over 600,000 axioms in about 200 ontologies.