We present the Frame-based ontology Design Outlet (FrODO), a novel method and tool for drafting ontologies from competency questions automatically. Competency questions are expressed as natural language and are a common solution for representing requirements in a number of agile ontology engineering methodologies, such as the eXtreme Design (XD) or SAMOD. FrODO builds on top of FRED. In fact, it leverages the frame semantics for drawing domain-relevant boundaries around the RDF produced by FRED from a competency question, thus drafting domain ontologies. We carried out a user-based study for assessing FrODO in supporting engineers for ontology design tasks. The study shows that FrODO is effective in this and the resulting ontology drafts are qualitative.
@article{arxiv.2206.02485,
title = {Automatically Drafting Ontologies from Competency Questions with FrODO},
author = {Aldo Gangemi and Anna Sofia Lippolis and Giorgia Lodi and Andrea Giovanni Nuzzolese},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02485},
year = {2022}
}