Fluent Editor for OWL 0.2.0.1 Beta

FluentEditor for OWL is comprehensive tool for editing and manipulating complex ontologies using Controlled Natural Language. Fluent editor provides alternative to XML-based OWL editors that is better suitable for human users.

It's main feature is using Controlled English as a knowledge modeling language. Supported via Predictive Editor prohibits one to enter any sentence that is not grammatically or morphologically correct and actively help the user during sentence writing. The Controlled English is a subset of Standard English with restricted grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce the ambiguity and complexity inherent in full English.

OWL stands for Web Ontology Language (sometimes called Ontology Web Languagea language). It is developed by the W3C's Web Ontology Working Group and intended to be the successor of DAML+OIL. OWL is the most expressive knowledge representation for the Semantic Web so far. It allows us to write explicit, formal conceptualizations of human endeavor. OWL can be used in a spectrum of tasks that appears in the semantic-web applications. It allows describe the application domain (where formal-semantic plays a crucial role) and application specification, database schema, database constraints as well as database content using common language. On the other hand OWL can be used as a language that allows domain experts (a person with special knowledge or skills in a particular area of endeavor) to express domain-specific knowledge (valid knowledge used to refer to an area of human endeavor).

The importance of a well-defined, formal language is clear and known from the area of programming languages; it is a necessary condition for machine-processing of information; it describes the meaning of knowledge precisely; it does not refer to subjective intuitions, nor is it open to different interpretations by different people (or machines). On the other way, it is questionable whether the XML-based syntax for OWL is very user-friendly. Fluent editor provides alternative that is better suitable for human users. We propose to use Controlled English as a knowledge modeling language. Supported via Predictive Editor prohibits one to enter any sentence that is not grammatically or morphologically correct and actively help the user during sentence writing. The Controlled English is a subset of Standard English with restricted grammar and vocabulary in order to reduce the ambiguity and complexity inherent in full English. In the last years Controlled English established itself in various application fields as powerful knowledge representation language that is readable by humans and processable by computers. Texts in Controlled English can automatically be translated into and from description logic, concretely SROIQ, the basis of the semantic web language OWL 2.

There are dozens known ontology-editors and the number of them is growing from day to day. The most famous is Protégé that allows editing ontology and inspect the inferred knowledge. Both Protégé and Fluent Editor allow support of knowledge engineering. The main difference between Fluent Editor and Protégé however lies in the way how the user interacts with the editor. To understand the meaning of formally ascribed knowledge one is required to have a background in the field of a formal method, especially in logic. It is hard to trace a formal knowledge for any authority that does not have such background. On the other hand, without the support of formal methods it is almost impossible to trace and understand the impact of even small changes of in the knowledge. This pragmatic observation of need for a 'human-readable language' knowledge modeling language led us to develop Fluent Editor. When using Fluent Editor, users do not need any training in formal logic formalisms nor the ICT support when using Fluent Editor. They are continuously checked if the entered knowledge fulfills the grammar. Additionally, knowledge engineers are provided with ability to explor

Requirements:	No special requirements
Release Date:	September 26, 2012
Platforms:	WinXP, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64, Windows 7, Windows 7 x64
Keyword:	Language,  Ontology,  Ontology Editor,  Owl,  Owl Editor,  Publish Ontology
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