Py2ONTO-Edit: A python-based tool for ontology term extraction and translation

Abstract

This paper presents Py2ONTO-Edit, an ontology editing tool that integrates the low-level functionality of Owlready2 to simplify the extraction and translation of ontology terms. It offers two extraction methods: 1. Global extraction method. 2. Selective-depth extraction method. Another key feature is the translation of ontology terms using multiple translation packages to add non-English labels (e.g., Chinese, French, German) to the ontology. This paper presents two main contributions: 1. Implementation of flexible features for term extraction. 2. Enabling of multilingual translation of ontology terms. Py2ONTO-Edit is an easy-to-use Python tool for developers focused on ontology term reuse and translation.