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Sunitha Abburu ¹, G. Suresh Babu ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept. of Computer Applications, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur, Tamilnadu, IN

Abstract

Ontology plays a vital role in semantic technologies. Ontology language is a formal languages used to build ontologies. Some of the popular ontology languages developed by different researchers are Ontolingua, OCML, LOOM, FLogic, SHOE, XOL, RDF(S), OIL, DAML+OIL, OWL and OWL2. This paper presents a detailed survey on ontology languages and their comparison. This survey article briefly describes the ontology languages and presents a comparison summary of the ontology languages with respect to their constructs and features. The comparison of the ontology languages help user to select a suitable language to implement an ontology in the domain of interest.

Keywords

Semantic Web, Ontology, Ontology Languages, Traditional Languages and Markup Languages.

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Sunitha Abburu ¹, G. Suresh Babu ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Applications, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, IN
2 Department of Computer Applications, Adhiyamaan College of Engineering, Hosur, Tamilnadu, IN

Abstract

Ontology plays a vital role in semantic web, knowledge engineering and information retrieval. The paper presents a comprehensive survey on ontology engineering methodologies. Ontology methodology is a set of procedures and guidelines derived from ontology development experiences. Some of the popular ontology methodologies are Sensus, Kactus, Uschold and King, Gruninger and Fox, Ontology development 101, Methontology, On-To-Knowledge, UPON, HCOME, DILIGENT, NeOn. This survey article describes the ontology engineering methodologies and it presents comparison summary of the ontology methodologies with respect to their features.

Keywords

Ontology, Ontology Development Process, Ontology Methodologies, Comparison of Ontology Methodologies.

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