Extracting Modules from Ontologies: Theory and Practice

The ability to extract meaningful fragments from an ontology is essential for ontology re-use. We propose a definition of a module that guarantees to completely capture the meaning of a given set of terms, i.e., to include all axioms relevant to the meaning of these terms, and study the problem of e...

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Main Authors: Grau, C, Bernardo, Horrocks, I, Kazakov, Y, Sattler, U
Format: Report
Published: University of Manchester 2007