Advancing Underutilized Crops Knowledge Using SWRL-enabled Ontologies - A survey and early experiment.
Abba Lawan, Abdur Rakib, Natasha Alechina, Asha S. Karunaratne · UWE Research Repository (UWE Bristol) · 2014
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 underuti-lized 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 integra-tion of OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontologies with Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules for added expressiveness.