Tool-supported building of DSLs from OWL ontologies

• Author(s): Ceh, Ines ; Crepinsek, Matej ; Kosar, Tomaz ; Mernik, Marjan ; Henriques, Pedro ; Pereira, Maria João ; Cruz, Daniela ; Oliveira, Nuno
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/6311
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Domain specific languages; Ontologies; OWL; Language processing
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are computer languages intended for problem solving in a specific domain. Ontology is a formal representation of a set of concepts from a particular domain and the relations between them. An ontology may be used to describe a domain and to reason about the entities within the domain. This paper presents an Ontology2DSL framework to build DSLs from OWL ontologies. Ontology2DSL enables the semi-automated construction of a formal grammar and programs from an OWL ontology. The design approach, the functionalities of the framework, and a case study are also addressed in this paper. Special attention is paid to the architecture that encompasses the following components: the transformation pattern builder, the OWL parser, the rule reader, the rule execution component and the transaction logger.