A method for using temporal reasoners to answer the history of science questions

Abstract

In the modern world of technology, the ontology is considered as an important factor in integrating data and creating semantic links between concepts. Given the reasoners and tools provided, processing is possible on the information stored in the ontology. Since description logic, as a formal language in the expression of ontologies, lacks the necessary means to create a time dimension in the relationship between data, hence, new semantic web tools can help descriptive logic to create the capability to process and deduce of temporal relationships. In this regard, identifying methods for modeling time and how it relates to other non-temporal concepts in the ontology can be very significant. Research on the history of science with a focus on the concepts of time and temporal queries is scarce. This manuscript aims to study a set of papers on the history of medical sciences to extract recurrent patterns of queries. In the following, an ontology of the medical history was created comprising the two Islamic medical and European scientific revolution eras, and the queries were expressed in SQWRL according to the proposed model. In this research, the N-array and SWRL temporal models have been used for time concepts.