Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

The Ontology Engineering Group at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Computer Science School at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) carries out research on the Ontological Engineering field and the Semantic Web.

We use ontologies in applications related with e-commerce, knowledge management, natural language processing and the Semantic Web. The most relevant technologies built by the group are WebODE, which is an integrated platform for ontology modeling and management, and ODESeW, an ontology-based application that automatically generates and manages a knowledge portal for Intranets and Extranets.

This technology is based on the widely used and tested methodology for building ontologies named METHONTOLOGY. METHONTOLOGY is the methodology recommended for ontology development by FIPA.