About

Evolva Logo

Evolva was an ontology evolution tool designed to handle tasks such as information discovery from external data sources, data validation, ontology updates, and managing and validating evolution. Its primary goals were to establish a complete cycle of ontology evolution and reduce user input throughout the process.

A key feature of Evolva was its reliance on various background knowledge sources for integrating new information. These sources included lexical databases like WordNet and online ontologies. This background knowledge facilitated the addition of new concepts by linking them to existing ones in the ontology, minimising the need for user intervention.

Framework

Evolva’s framework consisted of five components: Data Discovery, Data Validation, Ontological Changes, Evolution Validation, and Evolution Management.

Evolva's framework

Publications

Zablith, F., Antoniou, G., d’Aquin, M., Flouris, G., Kondylakis, H. and Motta, E. (2013) Ontology Evolution: A Process Centric Survey, The Knowledge Engineering Review.

Zablith, F., d’Aquin, M., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2010) Using Ontological Contexts to Assess the Relevance of Statements in Ontology Evolution, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses (EKAW), Lisbon, Portugal, Springer Verlag.

Zablith, F., Sellami, Z., d’Aquin, M., Aussenac-Gilles, N. and Hernandez, N. (2010) Vers la Combinaison de Deux Techniques d’evolution d’Ontologies a Partir de Ressources Generales et de Ressources Linguistiques, Workshop: Evolution d’Ontologies at 21st Journees Francophones d’Ingenierie des Connaissances (IC), N’ames, France.

Fernandez, M., Sabou, M., Knoth, P. and Motta, E. (2010) Predicting the quality of semantic relations by applying Machine Learning classifiers (Best Poster Award), Poster at EKAW 2010 – Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses, Lisbon, Portugal.

Zablith, F., d’Aquin, M., Sabou, M. and Motta, E. (2009) Investigating the Use of Background Knowledge for Assessing the Relevance of Statements to an Ontology in Ontology Evolution, Workshop: International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD) at The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Northern Virginia, USA.

Zablith, F., Sabou, M., d’Aquin, M. and Motta, E. (2009) Ontology Evolution with Evolva, Demo at European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete, Greece Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference, LNCS 5554, eds. L. Aroyo et al., pp. 908-912, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Zablith, F. (2009) Evolva: A Comprehensive Approach to Ontology Evolution, European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) PhD Symposium, Crete, Greece Proceedings of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference, LNCS 5554, eds. L. Aroyo et al., pp. 944-948, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Zablith, F. (2009) Ontology Evolution: A Practical Approach, Poster at Proceedings of Workshop on Matching and Meaning at Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB 2009), Edinburgh, UK.

Zablith, F., Sabou, M., d’Aquin, M. and Motta, E. (2008) Using Background Knowledge for Ontology Evolution, Workshop: International Workshop on Ontology Dynamics (IWOD) at The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Karlsruhe, Germany.

Zablith, F. (2008) Dynamic Ontology Evolution, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Doctoral Consortium, Karlsruhe, Germany.