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Semantic Network Analysis of Ontologies

, , , , and . The Semantic Web: Research and Applications: Proceedings of the 3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro, June 11-14, 2006, volume 4011/2006 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 514--529. Heidelberg, Springer, (2006)

Abstract

A key argument for modeling knowledge in ontologies is the easy reuse and re-engineering of the knowledge. However, current ontology engineering tools provide only basic functionalities for analyzing ontologies. Since ontologies can be considered as graphs, graph analysis techniques are a suitable answer for this need. Graph analysis has been performed by sociologists for over 60 years, and resulted in the vivid research area of Social Network Analysis (SNA).While social network structures currently receive high attention in the Semantic Web community, there are only very few SNA applications, and virtually none for analyzing the structure of ontologies. ER -

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