Using web tools for constructing an ontology of different natural languages

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Ontologies, often defined as an explicit specification of conceptualization,
are necessary for knowledge representation and knowledge exchange. This means
that ontology describes concepts and relations that exist in a domain. To enable
knowledge exchange, it is necessary to describe these concepts and relations in a
better way than just ordering them in taxonomy. A computational ontology consists
of a number of different components, such as Concepts, Instances, Individuals or
Facts, Relations and Attributes.
The present research is intended to consider different software tools related
to Semantic web, and achieve a kind of comparison among them. In fact, five
ontology-editors are described and compared. They are: Apollo, Onto Studio,
Protégé, Swoop and TopBraid Composer Free Edition. The structure and basic
features of these editors as well as the way of using them are described. The main
criterion used in the process of comparing these editors lies in their convenience for
the user, a...nd the possibility to apply them in different kinds of application.
The main goal of the work is to introduce a method for ontology construction
of a certain domain in applying the Semantic web. A number of software tools
adapted to build up the domain ontologies of most wide–spread natural languages
are available; however accomplishing that for any given natural language presents a
challenge. This research proposes a semi-automatic procedure to create ontologies
for different natural languages. The approach utilizes various software tools that are
available on the Internet, most notably DODDLE-OWL which is a domain ontology
development tool implemented for English and Japanese languages. Through this
tool, WordNet, Protégé and XSLT transformations, the researcher proposes a
general procedure to construct domain ontology for any natural language.