The objective of ONTORULE is to integrate all the required pieces of knowledge and technology, including some that will need be researched and developed within the project, to allow exactly that:the acquisition of ontologies and rules from the most appropriate sources, including natural languagedocuments; their separate management and maintenance; and their transparent operationalisation in IT applications.

Scientific and technical objectives

1. S&T Objective 1: integrating modelling and acquisition framework
2. S&T Objective 2: usable integrated ownership and management systems
3. S&T Objective 3: efficient combined execution and inference engines
4. S&T Objective 4: appropriate standards
5. S&T Objective 5: end-to end pilot applications