<s>
KAON	B-Application
(	O
Karlsruhe	B-Algorithm
ontology	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
ontology	O
infrastructure	O
developed	O
by	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Karlsruhe	B-Algorithm
and	O
the	O
Research	O
Center	O
for	O
Information	O
Technologies	O
in	O
Karlsruhe	B-Algorithm
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
tools	O
like	O
the	O
graphical	O
ontology	O
editor	O
OIModeler	O
or	O
the	O
KAON	B-Application
Server	O
were	O
based	O
on	O
KAON	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
ontology	B-General_Concept
learning	I-General_Concept
companion	O
tools	O
which	O
take	O
non-annotated	O
natural	O
language	O
text	O
as	O
input	O
:	O
TextToOnto	B-Application
(	O
KAON-based	O
)	O
and	O
Text2Onto	B-Application
(	O
KAON2-based	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Text2Onto	B-Application
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Probabilistic	O
Ontology	O
Model	O
(	O
POM	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2005	O
,	O
the	O
first	O
version	O
of	O
KAON2	B-Application
was	O
released	O
,	O
offering	O
fast	O
reasoning	O
support	O
for	O
OWL	B-Language
ontologies	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
KAON2	B-Application
is	O
not	O
backward-compatible	O
with	O
KAON	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
KAON2	B-Application
is	O
developed	O
as	O
a	O
joint	O
effort	O
of	O
the	O
Information	O
Process	O
Engineering	O
(	O
IPE	O
)	O
at	O
the	O
Research	O
Center	O
for	O
Information	O
Technologies	O
(	O
FZI	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
Institute	O
of	O
Applied	O
Informatics	O
and	O
Formal	O
Description	O
Methods	O
(	O
AIFB	O
)	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Karlsruhe	B-Algorithm
,	O
and	O
the	O
Information	O
Management	O
Group	O
(	O
IMG	O
)	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Manchester	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
KAON	B-Application
,	O
TextToOnto	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Text2Onto	B-Application
are	O
open	O
source	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
Java	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
KAON2	B-Application
is	O
not	O
open	O
source	O
,	O
but	O
the	O
executable	O
can	O
be	O
downloaded	O
from	O
the	O
KAON2	B-Application
site	O
.	O
</s>
