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IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems 2008 E91-D(4):945-958; doi:10.1093/ietisy/e91-d.4.945
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Copyright © 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Special Section on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering -- Papers -- Knowledge Engineering

DODDLE-OWL: Interactive Domain Ontology Development with Open Source Software in Java

Takeshi MORITA1, Naoki FUKUTA2, Noriaki IZUMI3 and Takahira YAMAGUCHI1

1 The authors are with Keio University, Yokohama-shi, 223–8522 Japan. E-mail: yamaguti{at}ae.keio.ac.jp, 2 The author is with Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu-shi, 432–8011 Japan., 3 The author is with National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101–0021 Japan.


  Abstract

In this paper, we propose an interactive domain ontology development environment called DODDLE-OWL. DODDLE-OWL refers to existing ontologies and supports the semi-automatic construction of taxonomic and other relationships in domain ontologies from documents. Integrating several modules, DODDLE-OWL is a practical and interactive domain ontology development environment. In order to evaluate the efficiency of DODDLE-OWL, we compared DODDLE-OWL with popular manual-building method. In order to evaluate the scalability of DODDLE-OWL, we constructed a large sized ontology over 34,000 concepts in the field of rocket operation using DODDLE-OWL. Through the above evaluation, we confirmed the efficiency and the scalability of DODDLE-OWL. Currently, DODDLE-OWL is open source software in Java and has 100 and more users from 20 and more countries.

Key Words: domain ontology, OWL, open software

Manuscript received July 2, 2007. Manuscript revised October 17, 2007.


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