An Introduction to Ontology Engineering

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Second Edition of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An Introduction to Ontology Engineering</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> provides an updated comprehensive overview of ontology engineering and offers hands-on experience that illustrate the theory. The topics covered include: logic foundations for ontologies with languages and automated reasoning developing good ontologies with methods and methodologies the top-down approach with foundational ontologies and the bottom-up approach to extract content from existing material and a selection of advanced topics that includes Ontology-Based Data Access the interaction between ontologies and natural languages advanced modelling languages and modularisation matching and more. Each chapter contains review questions and exercises.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The textbook is aimed at advanced undergraduate/postgraduate level in computer science and could fit a semester course in ontology engineering or a 2-week intensive course. Domain experts and philosophers may find a subset of the chapters of interest or work through the chapters in a different order.</span></p><p></p>