OntoVerbal: a Generic Tool and Practical Application to {SNOMED} {CT}

S F Liang; D Scott; R Stevens; A Rector

doi:10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040631

OntoVerbal: a Generic Tool and Practical Application to {SNOMED} {CT}

S F Liang, D Scott, R Stevens, A Rector

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Abstract

Ontology development is a non-trivial task requiring expertise in the chosen ontological language. We propose a method for making the content of ontologies more transparent by presenting, through the use of natural language generation, naturalistic descriptions of ontology classes as textual paragraphs. The method has been implemented in a proof-of-concept system, OntoVerbal, that automatically generates paragraph-sized textual descriptions of ontological classes expressed in OWL. OntoVerbal has been applied to ontologies that can be loaded into Protégé and been evaluated with SNOMED CT, showing that it provides coherent, well-structured and accurate textual descriptions of ontology classes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	227-239
Number of pages	13
Journal	International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA)
Volume	4
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2013.040631
Publication status	Published - 2013

Keywords

ontology verbalisation
natural language generation
OWL
SNOMED CT

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