Ontology Reuse and Application

Ontology Reuse and Application (1998)

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by Mike Uschold , Mike Healy , Keith Williamson , Peter Clark , Steven Woods

Venue:	PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS(FOIS’98
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TITLE	Ontology Reuse and Application	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Mike Uschold	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	Boeing Applied Research & Technology	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	PO Box 3707, Seattle, USA	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Mike Healy	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Keith Williamson	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Peter Clark	user correction
AUTHOR NAME	Steven Woods	user correction
ABSTRACT	In this paper, we describe an investigation into the reuse and application of an existing ontology for the purpose of specifying and formally developing software for aircraft design. Our goals were to clearly identify the processes involved in the task, and assess the cost-effectiveness of reuse. Our conclusions are that (re)using an ontology is far from an automated process, and instead requires significant effort from the knowledge engineer. We describe and illustrate some intrinsic properties of the ontology translation problem and argue that fully automatic translators are unlikely to be forthcoming in the foreseeable future. Despite the effort involved, our subjective conclusions are that in this case knowledge reuse was cost-effective, and that it would have taken significantly longer to design the knowledge content of this ontology from scratch in our application. Our preliminary results are promising for achieving larger-scale knowledge reuse in the future.	user correction
YEAR	1998	INFERENCE
VENUE	PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FORMAL ONTOLOGY IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS(FOIS’98	user correction
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	179--192	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	13 found	ParsCit 1.0