When one logic is not enough: Integrating first-order annotations in OWL ontologies

Author:

Flügel Simon1,Glauer Martin1,Neuhaus Fabian1,Hastings Janna23

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Cooperating Systems, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany

2. Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, University of Zurich, Switzerland

3. School of Medicine, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Abstract

In ontology development, there is a gap between domain ontologies which mostly use the Web Ontology Language, OWL, and foundational ontologies written in first-order logic, FOL. To bridge this gap, we present Gavel, a tool that supports the development of heterogeneous ‘FOWL’ ontologies that extend OWL with FOL annotations, and is able to reason over the combined set of axioms. Since FOL annotations are stored in OWL annotations, FOWL ontologies remain compatible with the existing OWL infrastructure. We show that for the OWL domain ontology OBI, the stronger integration with its FOL top-level ontology BFO via our approach enables us to detect several inconsistencies. Furthermore, existing OWL ontologies can benefit from FOL annotations. We illustrate this with FOWL ontologies containing mereotopological axioms that enable additional, useful inferences. Finally, we show that even for large domain ontologies such as ChEBI, automatic reasoning with FOL annotations can be used to detect previously unnoticed errors in the classification.

Publisher

IOS Press

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