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Survey on Ontology Languages

Dr. Sunitha Abburu, G. Suresh Babu

Abstract


Ontology plays a vital role in semantic technologies. Ontology language is a formal languages used to build ontologies. Some of the popular ontology languages developed by different researchers are Ontolingua, OCML, LOOM, FLogic, SHOE, XOL, RDF(S), OIL, DAML+OIL, OWL and OWL2. This paper presents a detailed survey on ontology languages and their comparison. This survey article briefly describes the ontology languages and presents a comparison summary of the ontology languages with respect to their constructs and features. The comparison of the ontology languages help user to select a suitable language to implement an ontology in the domain of interest.

Keywords


Semantic Web; Ontology; Ontology Languages; Traditional Languages and Markup Languages.

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