Dataset of ontology competency questions to SPARQL-OWL queries translations.
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SUBMITTER: Potoniec J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6971340 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
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Dataset of ontology competency questions to SPARQL-OWL queries translations.
Potoniec Jedrzej J Wiśniewski Dawid D Ławrynowicz Agnieszka A Keet C Maria CM
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This data article reports on a new set of 234 competency questions for ontology development and their formalisation into a set of 131 SPARQL-OWL queries. This is the largest set of competency questions with their linked queries to date, covering several ontologies of different type in different subject domains developed by different groups of question authors and ontology developers. The dataset is focused specifically on the ontology TBox (terminological part). The dataset may serve as a manual ...[more]
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