Converting ontologies into DSLs

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Autor(a) principal: Fonseca, João Manuel de Sousa
Data de Publicação: 2014
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/36786
Resumo: This paper presents a project whose main objective is to explore the Ontological-based development of Domain Specific Languages (DSL), more precisely, of their underlying Grammar. After reviewing the basic concepts characterizing Ontologies and Domain-Specific Languages, we introduce a tool, OWL2Gra, that takes profit of the knowledge described by the ontology and automatically generates a grammar for a DSL that allows to discourse about the domain described by that ontology. This approach represents a rigorous method to create, in a secure and effective way, a grammar for a new specialized language restricted to a concrete domain. The usual process of creating a grammar from the scratch is, as every creative action, difficult, slow and error prone; so this proposal is, from a Grammar Engineering point of view, of uttermost importance. After the grammar generation phase, the Grammar Engineer can manipulate it to add syntactic sugar to improve the final language quality or even to add semantic actions. The OWL2Gra project is composed of three engines. The main one is OWL2DSL, the component that converts an OWL ontology into an attribute grammar. The two additional modules are Onto2OWL and Ddesc2OWL. The former, Onto2OWL, converts ontologies written in OntoDL (a light-weight DSL to describe ontologies) into standard OWL XML that can be loaded into the well known Proteg´ e sys- ´ tem to future editing; the later, Ddesc2OWL, converts domain instances written in the DSL generated by OWL2DSL into the initial OWL ontology. Ddesc2OWL plays an important role because it allows for the population of the original ontology with concept and relation instances extracted from the new language concrete sentences this allow a faster ontology population.
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spelling Converting ontologies into DSLsOntologiesDSLDomain-specific languages681.3.06Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e InformáticaThis paper presents a project whose main objective is to explore the Ontological-based development of Domain Specific Languages (DSL), more precisely, of their underlying Grammar. After reviewing the basic concepts characterizing Ontologies and Domain-Specific Languages, we introduce a tool, OWL2Gra, that takes profit of the knowledge described by the ontology and automatically generates a grammar for a DSL that allows to discourse about the domain described by that ontology. This approach represents a rigorous method to create, in a secure and effective way, a grammar for a new specialized language restricted to a concrete domain. The usual process of creating a grammar from the scratch is, as every creative action, difficult, slow and error prone; so this proposal is, from a Grammar Engineering point of view, of uttermost importance. After the grammar generation phase, the Grammar Engineer can manipulate it to add syntactic sugar to improve the final language quality or even to add semantic actions. The OWL2Gra project is composed of three engines. The main one is OWL2DSL, the component that converts an OWL ontology into an attribute grammar. The two additional modules are Onto2OWL and Ddesc2OWL. The former, Onto2OWL, converts ontologies written in OntoDL (a light-weight DSL to describe ontologies) into standard OWL XML that can be loaded into the well known Proteg´ e sys- ´ tem to future editing; the later, Ddesc2OWL, converts domain instances written in the DSL generated by OWL2DSL into the initial OWL ontology. Ddesc2OWL plays an important role because it allows for the population of the original ontology with concept and relation instances extracted from the new language concrete sentences this allow a faster ontology population.Henriques, Pedro RangelVaranda, Maria JoãoUniversidade do MinhoFonseca, João Manuel de Sousa2014-10-312014-10-31T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/1822/36786eng201195399info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-21T12:43:55Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/36786Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:41:30.037725Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Converting ontologies into DSLs
title Converting ontologies into DSLs
spellingShingle Converting ontologies into DSLs
Fonseca, João Manuel de Sousa
Ontologies
DSL
Domain-specific languages
681.3.06
Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática
title_short Converting ontologies into DSLs
title_full Converting ontologies into DSLs
title_fullStr Converting ontologies into DSLs
title_full_unstemmed Converting ontologies into DSLs
title_sort Converting ontologies into DSLs
author Fonseca, João Manuel de Sousa
author_facet Fonseca, João Manuel de Sousa
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Henriques, Pedro Rangel
Varanda, Maria João
Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Fonseca, João Manuel de Sousa
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Ontologies
DSL
Domain-specific languages
681.3.06
Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática
topic Ontologies
DSL
Domain-specific languages
681.3.06
Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informática
description This paper presents a project whose main objective is to explore the Ontological-based development of Domain Specific Languages (DSL), more precisely, of their underlying Grammar. After reviewing the basic concepts characterizing Ontologies and Domain-Specific Languages, we introduce a tool, OWL2Gra, that takes profit of the knowledge described by the ontology and automatically generates a grammar for a DSL that allows to discourse about the domain described by that ontology. This approach represents a rigorous method to create, in a secure and effective way, a grammar for a new specialized language restricted to a concrete domain. The usual process of creating a grammar from the scratch is, as every creative action, difficult, slow and error prone; so this proposal is, from a Grammar Engineering point of view, of uttermost importance. After the grammar generation phase, the Grammar Engineer can manipulate it to add syntactic sugar to improve the final language quality or even to add semantic actions. The OWL2Gra project is composed of three engines. The main one is OWL2DSL, the component that converts an OWL ontology into an attribute grammar. The two additional modules are Onto2OWL and Ddesc2OWL. The former, Onto2OWL, converts ontologies written in OntoDL (a light-weight DSL to describe ontologies) into standard OWL XML that can be loaded into the well known Proteg´ e sys- ´ tem to future editing; the later, Ddesc2OWL, converts domain instances written in the DSL generated by OWL2DSL into the initial OWL ontology. Ddesc2OWL plays an important role because it allows for the population of the original ontology with concept and relation instances extracted from the new language concrete sentences this allow a faster ontology population.
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