基于BFO构建中文植物物种多样性领域本体的研究

Research on Construction of Chinese Plant Species Diversity Domain Ontology Based on BFO

【目的】建立中文植物物种多样性本体。【方法】以BFO作为上层本体,参考KACTUS法,通过复用PO构建中文植物物种多样性本体。具体过程包括对PO裁剪与合并、增加实体、添加关系、汉化术语以及填充实例等环节。【结果】建立涵括720条实体和4 000多个实例的中文植物物种多样性本体。并依据该本体,使用OWL语言实现《中国植物志》中"象橘"描述知识片段的形式化表示。【局限】由于该领域缺乏完善的词典,因而本体未能穷举实例。【结论】建立的本体能够较好地支持植物物种多样性知识的形式化表示。

[Objective] Establish Chinese Plant Species Diversity Domain Ontology. [Methods] With BFO as the upper Ontology, this paper takes KACTUS method as a reference to build the Chinese Plant Species Diversity Domain Ontology by reusing PO. The specific process includes cutting and consolidation of PO, increase of entities, accretion of relations, Chinese localization of terminology and filling of instances. [Results] This paper establishes a Chinese Plant Species Diversity Domain Ontology which includes 720 entities and more than 4 000 instances. Furthermore, some knowledge fragments on description of Feronia Limonia from ＂Flora of China＂ are expressed based on the Ontology using OWL. [Limitations] The Ontology does not exhaust instances due to the lack of a perfect field dictionary. [Conclusions] The Chinese Plant Species Diversity Domain Ontology can support the formal representation of knowledge on plant species diversity.