OWLAx: A Protege Plugin to Support Ontology Axiomatization through Diagramming
arXiv:1808.10105v128 citations
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This tool addresses the efficiency of ontology engineering for users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing methods.
The paper tackles the routine task of adding logical axioms to ontologies after conceptual design by introducing OWLAx, a Protege plugin with a visual interface based on ontology design patterns.
Once the conceptual overview, in terms of a somewhat informal class diagram, has been designed in the course of engineering an ontology, the process of adding many of the appropriate logical axioms is mostly a routine task. We provide a Protege plugin which supports this task, together with a visual user interface, based on established methods for ontology design pattern modeling.