Papers from ISWC, Part 1

Speakers: Natasha Noy and Timothy Redmond, BMIR, Stanford University

References

Papers on modularization and biomedical ontologies

• Chiara Del Vescovo, Bijan Parsia, Uli Sattler and Thomas Schneider The Modular Structure of an Ontology: Atomic Decomposition and Module Count
  • This was presented at WoMo 2011 and at first glance appears to be an easier read than the next paper that was given at ISWC and is about essentially the same subject matter. Both papers depend on understanding of modules that is explained in the following supporting papers.
    • Which kind of module should I extract - Simplified definition of top,bottom and top-bottom modules.
    • Modular reuse of ontologies: Theory and practice - More detailed and complete discussion of modules. (Probably not needed as background but a useful reference)
• Chiara Del Vescovo, Damian Gessler, Pavel Klinov, Bijan Parsia, Ulrike Sattler, Thomas Schneider and Andrew Winget. Decomposition and Modular Structure of BioPortal Ontologies
  • Supporting documents
    • The modular structure of an ontology: atomic decomposition - Source document explaining and proving the existence of atoms.
• Eleni Mikroyannidi, Luigi Iannone, Robert Stevens and Alan Rector. Inspecting regularities in ontology design using clustering