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The OntoWare Group provides organizational and legal support for a broad range of Semantic Web related software projects. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, OntoWare projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users.


NeOn Toolkit
NeOn is a 14.7 million Euros project involving 14 European partners and co-funded by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme under grant number IST-2005-027595. NeOn started in March 2006 and has a duration of 4 years. Our aim is to advance the state of the art in using ontologies for large-scale semantic applications in the distributed organizations. Particularly, we aim at improving the capability to handle multiple networked ontologies that exist in a particular context, are created collaboratively, and might be highly dynamic and constantly evolving.


Last Release (Thursday, 26 February 2009)
 
Ontology Alignment and Mapping
FOAM, Framework for Ontology Alignment and Mapping:

The ontology alignment framework is a tool to full- or semi-automatically align two or more OWL ontologies. It is based on heuristics (similarity) of the individual entities (concepts, relations, and instances). As result we receive pairs of aligned entities. The underlying research has already been presented at different conferences, see e.g.

Happy Aligning.


Last Release (Saturday, 11 August 2007)
 
OWL Tools
The KAON2 OWL tools are a set of tools for working on OWL files, exposing the abilities of the KAON2 ontology infrastructure to the command line.


Last Release (Wednesday, 7 June 2006)
 
RDF Reactor
Access RDF from Java without any RDF knowledge. Use inferencing. See data source like java objects as RDF. Use the data reactor for easy integration.


Last Release (Tuesday, 13 February 2007)
 
RELExO

RELExO (Relational Exploration for Learning Expressive Ontologies) is a tool for reasoner-aided relational exploration of OWL DL ontologies, that has been developed to support the acquisition and refinement of complex class descriptions.

Publications:

Johanna Völker, Sebastian Rudolph. Lexico-Logical Acquisition of OWL DL Axioms - An Integrated Approach to Ontology Refinement. In Raoul Medina and Sergei Obiedkov, Proceedings of the International Conference on Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA), Springer, February 2008.

Johanna Völker, Sebastian Rudolph. Fostering Web Intelligence by Semi-automatic OWL Ontology Refinement. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), 2008. to appear

Homepage: http://relexo.ontoware.org


Last Release (Wednesday, 29 April 2009)
 
Text2Onto

Text2Onto is the official successor of TextToOnto, a framework for ontology learning from text.

Publication: Philipp Cimiano, Johanna Völker. Text2Onto - A Framework for Ontology Learning and Data-driven Change Discovery. In Andres Montoyo, Rafael Munoz, Elisabeth Metais, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), volume 3513 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 227-238. Springer, Alicante, Spain, June 2005.

In addition to the standalone version of Text2Onto's graphical user interface, an Eclipse plugin has been published lately, which enables a tighter integration of Text2Onto with the editing and maintenance facilities of the NeOn Toolkit ontology engineering environment.


Last Release (Monday, 13 July 2009)