[Attempto] Attempto to OWL II

[Tobias Kuhn]

Hi Mark,

> As the question below suggests, this topic is fairly new to me.
> 
> I am trying to encode a piece of legislation in OWL II.
> 
> I was thinking of using Attempto to facilitate this process.  In 
> particular, I was hoping to use the APE parser to generate OWL from ACE.
> 
> However, I am finding that there are some OWL related constraints that 
> prohibit this process.  Specifically, prepositions are not allowed and 
> neither are adjectives.

Right. Prepositions and adjectives could certainly be represented in one or another way in OWL 2, 
but the ACE->OWL translator that is part of the ACE parser (APE) does not support them.

> I am wondering if there have been any papers published on using ACE / 
> APE to convert natural language into OWL.  Are there any work arounds to 
> the (restrictive) problems described above.

The ACE->OWL translation is described in detail in the PhD thesis of Kaarel Kaljurand:

   http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/pubs/papers/phd_kaljurand.pdf

Since APE is open source, you can also check out the source code of the ACE->OWL translator and 
change and extend it:

   http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/downloads/

The code for the ACE->OWL translator can be found in the directory "ape/utils/owlswrl/".


Cheers,
Tobias