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A lightweight methodology for rapid ontology engineering

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UPON Lite focuses on users, typically domain experts without ontology expertise, minimizing the role of ontology engineers.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 3
      March 2016
      109 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2897191
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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