Integrating Language and Ontology Engineering.
Bruno Barroca, Thomas Kühne, Hans Vangheluwe · 2014
Abstract. Creating new modeling environments has become a relatively low-cost investment thanks to meta modeling environments and language workbenches that can automatically synthesize environments from lan-guage specifications. However, the currently existing tools are focused on language syntax and execution/simulation rather than providing means to reason with semantic properties from the real world. It appears that reasoning opportunities as they arise in ontology research (e.g., based on description logics) are currently not exploited in the field of language en-gineering. In this vision paper, we explore the integration of the hitherto rather isolated areas of language engineering and ontology engineering in order to exploit the potential of using reasoning for models expressed in user-defined languages. 1