The goal of the ontology requirements specification activity is to state why the ontology is
being built, what its intended uses are, who the end-users are, and which requirements the …

Experiments in the reuse of Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs) have revealed that users with
different levels of expertise in ontology modelling face difficulties when reusing ODPs. With …

Abstract The so-called Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), which have been defined as
solutions to ontological design problems, are of great help to developers when modelling …

In this paper we describe how linguistic patterns can contribute to ontology development by
enabling an easier reuse of some ontological resources. In particular, our research focuses …

The combination of certain linguistic units that recurrently appear in text genres has attracted
the attention of many researchers in several domains, as they can provide valuable …

Ontologias são artefatos de representação do conhecimento utilizados no âmbito da
Ciência da Informação, principalmente no campo da Organização do Conhecimento, bem …

The soYcalled Ontology Design Patterns (ODPs), which have been defined as solutions to
ontological design problems, are of great help to developers when modelling ontologies …

The decisive launching of the Semantic Web depends on two key factors: the design of
sound methodologies for guiding users in the reuse of available knowledge resources that …

In this paper we introduce the pattern literal reification, a modelling technique to address
scenarios, in which we need to bless particular literals, usually when applying data …

Currently, ontologies are frequently used in sciences such as Linguistics, Information
Science and Computer Science, especially in the areas of Conceptual Modeling and …