Toward an Enrichment of Ontologies Inferred From RDF Documents
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IEEE Access. 2024-10, vol. 12, p. 148037-148056
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The Semantic Web emerged in response to the unprecedented growth of information and data
sharing on the Web. It consists of a set of technologies that enable the automatic (machine) management
and processing of linked ...Lire la suite >
The Semantic Web emerged in response to the unprecedented growth of information and data
sharing on the Web. It consists of a set of technologies that enable the automatic (machine) management
and processing of linked data across hundreds of distributed repositories. To connect and interlink data,
the Semantic Web uses Resource Description Framework (RDF), which is a graph-based data model that
simplifies the description of resources using triples (subject, predicate, object). The representation of data in
RDF usually follows an ontology, a knowledge base model that dictates the relationships and characteristics
of the linked data. Ontologies play an important role in the SemanticWeb and are a key component. However,
ontologies might not be correct and, in some cases, might not be available. In general, ontologies are
created manually by domain experts in collaboration with ontology engineers, which is a costly and errorprone
task. In this study, we present a proposal to automatically generate ontologies from RDF datasets.
We use summarization techniques to reduce triples and retain the most relevant ones. Subsequently, classes,
datatype properties, object properties, as well as the domain and range of properties are identified for schema
construction. In addition, an enrichment of the schema is performed by incorporating Object Property
axioms. The result is the delivery of a serialized ontology document in OWL/XML format. Furthermore,
we present an experimental evaluation of an RDF dataset of 16005 triples. Through application of our
summarization technique the original dataset was decreased by 98%. The ontology was generated with a
time of 148.73 seconds. Finally, 9 classes, 10 Object Properties, 6 Datatype Properties, and 4 different types
of Object Property axioms were identified.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
RDF
OWL
Ontology
Query SPARQL
Summarization
Object property axioms
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