Title :
OWLPath: An OWL Ontology-Guided Query Editor
Author :
Rafael Valencia-Garcia;Francisco Garcia-Sanchez;Dagoberto Castellanos-Nieves;Jesualdo Tomás Fern?ndez-Breis
Author_Institution :
Department of Informatics and Systems, University of Murcia , Espinardo, Spain
Abstract :
Most Semantic Web technology-based applications need users to have a deep background on the formal underpinnings of ontology languages and some basic skills in these technologies. Generally, only experts in the field meet these requirements. In this paper, we present OWLPath, a natural language-query editor guided by multilanguage OWL-formatted ontologies. This application allows nonexpert users to easily create SPARQL queries that can be issued over most existing ontology storage systems. Our approach is a fully fledged solution backed with a proof-of-concept implementation and the empirical results of two challenging use cases: one in the domain of e-finance and the other in e-tourism.
Keywords :
"OWL","Ontologies","Semantic Web","Resource description framework","Database languages","Natural languages","Vocabulary","User interfaces","Knowledge representation"
Journal_Title :
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans
DOI :
10.1109/TSMCA.2010.2048029
