@conference { , title = {Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment}, 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 underutilized 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 integration of OWL (Web Ontology Language) ontologies with Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) rules for added expressiveness.}, conference = {4th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9-11, 2014.}, pages = {69-84}, publicationstatus = {Unpublished}, url = {https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/806434}, keyword = {Computer Science Research Centre, crop ontology, OWL ontology, semantic web rule language, underutilized crops, knowledge representation, reasoning}, year = {2014}, author = {Lawan, Abba and Rakib, Abdur and Alechina, Natasha and Karunaratne, Asha} editor = {Thepchai, Supnithi and Takahira, Yamaguchi and Marut, Buranarach} }