Bridging the Mapping between Ontology and Relation Schemas Based on ORMapping Technology

Abstract:

Ontology plays a key role in such areas: knowledge engineering, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, semantic web and web service. It is important to recover knowledge associated with specific domains in relational database to semantics, especially, in Ontology learning field. Previous works showed that ontologies can learn from relational database. However, the presented approaches still have some limits. In this paper, we present an ontology learning method based on Object Relation Mapping (ORM) that presents how the source of the databases can be exploited to ontology and the details of object can be generated, such as class hierarchies, relationship and properties.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 58-60)
• Pages: 1523-1528
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.58-60.1523
• Online since: June 2011
• Authors: Hai Zhong Qian, Su Bin Shen
• Keywords: Ontology, ORMapping, OWL, Relational Schemas, Semantic Web

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