SWAT (Semantic Web Authoring Tool)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Computer Science
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| Robert Stevens (Principal Investigator) | |
| Alan Rector (Co-Investigator) |
Publications
Alan Rector (Author)
(2011)
OntoVerbal-M: a Multilingual Verbaliser for SNOMED CT
Allan Third (Author)
(2011)
Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation
Allan Third (Author)
"Hidden semantics": what can we learn from the names in an ontology?
Allan Third (Author)
Explaining Justifications in OWL DL Ontologies
Allan Third (Author)
(2010)
Expressing OWL axioms by English sentences: dubious in theory, feasible in practice
Donia Scott (Author)
(2011)
Unlocking Medical Ontologies for Non-Ontology Experts
Donia Scott (Author)
(2009)
Editing OWL through generated CNL
Fen S
(2013)
OntoVerbal: a Generic Tool and Practical Application to SNOMED CT
in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications
Liang S
(2011)
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
| Description | We found that natural language definitions for a class or concept in an ontology could be generated using only the logical description of that class. We took the approach of a natural language generator that was general to any ontology, rather than one that was crafted to a particular domain of interest or style of logical expression. In doing so, we made some compromises in quality of natural language, in favour of this generic approach. The "paragraphs" of generated natural language are unordered and, while each sentence is of reasonable quality, the whole paragraph is not necessarily so readable. To address this issue, we used Rhetorical structure theory to map types of logical expression to rhetorical roles and thus were able to impose an ordering on the sentences in the generated paragraphs that made them much more acceptable. We applied the software developed in this project to ontologies from both biology and health and in English and mandarin. |
| Exploitation Route | Now we can automatically generate coherent natural language from any logic based OWL ontology, we can also create natural language definitions for ontology classes and these can be used by both ontology developers and ontology users for easier access, comprehension and checking of the ontology's content. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Pharmaceuticals and Medical Biotechnology Other |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account Concept and Feasibility Study Scheme AVanT: Automotive Vocabularies and Terminologies 'Project' |
| Amount | £30,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IAA 033 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2014 |
| End | 08/2014 |
| Description | Impact Acceleration Account Relationship Incubator Scheme: SnapOn Semantics project |
| Amount | £4,356 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | IAA 017 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2013 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Partnership: Telematicus and SnapOn |
| Amount | £170,977 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Partnership ID: 1013855 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2015 |
| End | 08/2017 |
| Description | What If |
| Amount | £311,211 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/J014176/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| End | 06/2016 |
| Description | SWAT (Semantic Web Authoring Tool) |
| Organisation | EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL - EBI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration with James Malone at European BioInformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK on two papers |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | SWAT (Semantic Web Authoring Tool) |
| Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Richard Power invited to join the advisory board of the EPSRC-funded WhatIf project (University of Aberdeen and Manchester EP/J014176/1). |
| Start Year | 2012 |