Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment

Lawan, Abba; Rakib, Abdur; Alechina, Natasha; Karunaratne, Asha

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.

Citation

Lawan, A., Rakib, A., Alechina, N., & Karunaratne, A. (2014, November). Advancing underutilized crops knowledge using SWRL-enabled ontologies - A survey and early experiment. Paper presented at 4th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9-11, 2014

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 4th Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 9-11, 2014.
• Start Date: Nov 9, 2014
• End Date: Nov 11, 2014
• Acceptance Date: Sep 12, 2014
• Publication Date: Dec 13, 2014
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 69-84
• Keywords: crop ontology, OWL ontology, semantic web rule language,; underutilized crops, knowledge representation, reasoning
• Publisher URL: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1312/ldop2014_paper2.pdf
• Related Public URLs: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1312/ldop2014_paper2.pdf
• Additional Information: Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : The 2nd International Workshop on Linked Data and Ontology in Practice