OntoComP: A protégé plugin for completing owl ontologies

Abstract

We describe OntoComP, a Protégé4 plugin that supports ontology engineers in completing OWL ontologies. More precisely, OntoComPsupports an ontology engineer in checking whether an ontology contains all the relevant information about the application domain, and in extending the ontology appropriately if this is not the case. It acquires complete knowledge about the application domain efficiently by asking successive questions to the ontology engineer. By using novel techniques from Formal Concept Analysis, it ensures that, on the one hand, the interaction with the ontology engineer is kept to a minimum, and, on the other hand, the resulting ontology is complete in a certain well-defined sense. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.