acl acl2010 acl2010-64 acl2010-64-reference knowledge-graph by maker-knowledge-mining

64 acl-2010-Complexity Assumptions in Ontology Verbalisation


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Author: Richard Power

Abstract: We describe the strategy currently pursued for verbalising OWL ontologies by sentences in Controlled Natural Language (i.e., combining generic rules for realising logical patterns with ontology-specific lexicons for realising atomic terms for individuals, classes, and properties) and argue that its success depends on assumptions about the complexity of terms and axioms in the ontology. We then show, through analysis of a corpus of ontologies, that although these assumptions could in principle be violated, they are overwhelmingly respected in practice by ontology developers.


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