Semantic analysis approach for construction of OWL ontology

摘要

A semantic analysis approach is proposed, by which semantic relationships between concepts are identified and defined, and then mapped or transformed to OWL (web ontology language) ontology. The most common abstractions (namely, inclusion, aggregation and association) and their implication in ontology are discussed; then the OWL implementation for three abstractions are analyzed and illustrated. Taxonomies, constraints on properties for each class, and the relations between taxonomies in OWL ontology are established after all the semantic relationships are identified and described. This research is the basis for the development of the ontology conceptual model (OCM) and the mapping from OCM to OWL ontology.