An Assisted Process for Building Semiotic Web Ontology

The evolution of the Semantic Web (SW) depends on novel methodologies to represent the meanings of the huge amount of information available nowadays. Recent proposals in literature have explored new approaches based on Semiotics. The ‘Semiotic Web Ontology’ (SWO) is an attempt to model the information in a more precise way, and, at the same time to be compatible with the SW standards. This paper presents a computer assisted process for building SWO. The process includes transformation rules for deriving an initial Web Ontology (WO) described in Web Ontology Language (OWL) from Ontology Charts (OCs) produced by the Semantic Analysis Method (SAM). In this paper the process and a tool are illustrated and discussed. Moreover results of the application of the process in a real case study are presented showing the potential of the approach.