On the Ontological Modeling of Trees
arXiv:1710.05096v17 citations
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This work addresses a domain-specific problem for knowledge organization and ontology engineering, offering an incremental contribution.
The paper investigates design choices for modeling trees in ontologies, focusing on the expressiveness limits of the Web Ontology Language and provides a reusable ontology design pattern for trees.
Trees -- i.e., the type of data structure known under this name -- are central to many aspects of knowledge organization. We investigate some central design choices concerning the ontological modeling of such trees. In particular, we consider the limits of what is expressible in the Web Ontology Language, and provide a reusable ontology design pattern for trees.