OntoExtend: A Framework for Requirement-driven and Scalable Ontology Extension with LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.17963v1
• Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:04:01 GMT
• Title: OntoExtend: A Framework for Requirement-driven and Scalable Ontology Extension with LLMs
• Abstract summary: OntoExtend is a requirements-driven framework for extension with Language Models (LLMs)<n>It uses retrieval-auged generation (RAG) over relevant input and requirements to propose grounded extensions.<n>We evaluate OntoExtend on 39 CQs from two use cases: a public EU-project, Onto-DESIDE, and an industrial ontology from Bosch.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Ontology extension refers to the process of enriching an existing ontology in response to emerging requirements, making it more complete. This task is a resource-intensive and error-prone process. Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising performance on generating ontologies from scratch, but current approaches rarely tie ontology extension explicitly to requirements or reusable core models, and offer limited, systematic evaluation of LLM outputs. This paper introduces OntoExtend, a requirements-driven framework for ontology extension with LLMs. It uses retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over relevant input ontologies and requirements in the form of competency questions to propose grounded extensions. We evaluate OntoExtend on 39 CQs from two use cases: a public EU-project ontology, Onto-DESIDE, and an industrial ontology from Bosch. The generated fragments show few structural issues, satisfy all functional evaluation tests, and are rated by ontology engineers as requiring minor to moderate revision before integration. These results suggest that OntoExtend is useful as a drafting assistant for requirement-driven ontology extension in real world scenarios, while remaining sensitive to CQ specificity and modelling profile.

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