# Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for EL^+ Ontologies

##### Boontawee SuntisrivarapornBoontawee Suntisrivaraporn
Boontawee Suntisrivaraporn
Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for EL^+ Ontologies
In Sean Bechhofer and Manfred Hauswirth and Joerg Hoffmann and Manolis Koubarakis, eds., Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC'08), volume 5021 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 230-244, 2008. Springer
• KurzfassungAbstract
The description logic EL+ has recently proved practically useful in the life science domain with presence of several large-scale biomedical ontologies such as SNOMED CT. To deal with ontologies of this scale, standard reasoning of classification is essential but not sufficient. The ability to extract relevant fragments from a large ontology and to incrementally classify it has become more crucial to support ontology design, maintenance and re-use. In this paper, we propose a pragmatic approach to module extraction and incremental classification for EL+ ontologies and report on empirical evaluations of our algorithms which have been implemented as an extension of the CEL reasoner.
• Forschungsgruppe:Research Group: Automatentheorie
The final publication is available at Springer.
@inproceedings{ Sun-ESWC-08,
author = {Boontawee {Suntisrivaraporn}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th European Semantic Web Conference ({ESWC'08})},
editor = {Sean {Bechhofer} and Manfred {Hauswirth} and Joerg {Hoffmann} and Manolis {Koubarakis}},
pages = {230--244},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
title = {Module Extraction and Incremental Classification: A Pragmatic Approach for $\mathcal{EL}^+$ Ontologies},
volume = {5021},
year = {2008},
}