An AntiPattern-Based OWL Ontology Debugging Tool
Mohamad Fauzan Tahwil · 2010
Debugging an OWL ontology manually is difficult and a time-consuming task, even for ontology engineering and knowledge representation experts. Some debugging tools are very dependent on to the reasoners that may take several hours to detect inconsistencies. Current debugging tools do not provide enough information. None of these tools can detect modeling errors and suggest a better form of expression. By continuing previous research on antipatterns, we want to make an effort in this thesis to build Apero, a Protege plug-in that offers an ontology debugging tool based on the use of antipatterns. Apero is able to detect inconsistencies without the use of a reasoner, shows possible modeling errors and suggests an alternative form of expression but more accurate for encoding the same knowledge.