Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment

Abba Lawan; Abdur Rakib; Natasha Alechina; Asha Karunaratne

Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment

Abba Lawan, Abdur Rakib, Natasha Alechina, Asha Karunaratne

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Abstract

Due to their powerful knowledge representation formalism and associated inference mechanisms, ontology-based approaches have been increasingly adopted to formally represent domain knowledge. We propose the use of ontologies to advance knowledge-sharing on underutilized crops and propose how to integrate those ontologies with rules for added expressiveness. We first present a survey on the use of ontologies in the field of life-sciences with emphasis on crop-related ontologies, and justify why we need a new formalism. We then present the UC-ONTO (an Underutilized Crops Ontology) as a case study showing the integration of OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontologies with Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules for added expressiveness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	69-84
Number of pages	16
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	1312
Publication status	Published - 13 Dec 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference - Chiang Mai, Thailand Duration: 9 Nov 2014 → 11 Nov 2014

Keywords

Crop ontology
Knowledge representation
OWL Ontology
Reasoning
Semantic web rule language
Underutilized crops

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General Computer Science

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