Automatic Ontology Extension: Resolving Inconsistencies
Ekaterina Ovchinnikova, Kai‐Uwe Kühnberger · LDV-Forum/Journal for language technology and computational linguistics · 2007
Automatic Ontology Extension: Resolving InconsistenciesOntologies are widely used in text technology and artificial intelligence.The need to develop large ontologies for real-life applications provokes researchers to automate ontology extension procedures.Automatic updates without the control of a human expert can generate potential conflicts between original and new knowledge.As a consequence the resulting ontology can yield inconsistencies.We propose a procedure that models the process of adapting an ontology to new information by repairing several important types of inconsistencies. A documentation can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/.