Integration of Ontologies and Model Driven Architecture

本研究旨在开发一种领域本体构建工具及其应用，以支持UML图的上游软件开发。该工具采用机器可读字典（MRD）和特定于领域的文本。分类关系来自WordNet与领域专家的交互，使用以下两种策略：匹配结果分析和修剪结果分析。非分类关系来源于特定领域文本，通过词汇共现统计分析；基于WordSpace根据词汇项之间的语义接近程度来表示词汇项。基于这一思想，我们实现了领域本体快速开发环境- web本体语言扩展（doddl - owl），包括输入模块、构建模块、细化模块、可视化模块和翻译模块五个模块。owl支持在本体中构建分类关系和非分类关系。我们做了法律领域的案例研究。实验结果表明，我们的环境可以支持用户构建领域本体。另一方面，我们设计了一个支持用户从用户特定信息生成分析类图的系统，采用两种本体：通用本体和领域特定本体。系统通过将用例描述中的名词与领域本体中的概念或通用本体中的超纵坐标概念进行匹配，提取出必要的概念、数据属性和对象属性进行分类。

This research aims at a domain ontology construction tool and its application to support upper stream of software development with UML diagrams.The tool takes a machine readable dictionary (MRD) and domain-specific texts. The taxonomic relationships come from WordNet in the interaction with a domain expert, using the following two strategies : match result analysis and trimmed result analysis. The non-taxonomic relationships come from domain-specific texts with the analysis of lexical co-occurrence statistics ; based on WordSpace to rep-resent lexical items according to how semantically close they are to one another. Based on this idea, we have implemented DODDLE-OWL (a Domain Ontology rapiD DeveLopment Environment-Web Ontology Language extension) with the following five modules : Input Module, Construction Module, Refinement Module, Visualization Module, and Translation Module. DODDLE-OWL supports the construction of both taxonomic relationships and non-taxonomic relationships in ontologies. We have done case studies in the field of law. The empirical results show us that our environment can support a user in constructing domain ontologies.On the other hand, we have designed a system that supports users in generating analysis class diagrams from user specific information, taking two kinds of ontologies : general ontologies and domain specific ontologies. By doing the match between nouns in use case descriptions and concepts from a domain ontology or super ordinate concepts from a general ontology, the system can extract necessary concepts, data properties and object properties to class.