Semantic Authoring of Ontologies by Exploration and Elimination of Possible Worlds

We propose a novel approach to ontology authoring that is centered on semantics rather than on syntax. Instead of writing axioms formalizing a domain, the expert is invited to explore the possible worlds of her ontology, and to eliminate those that do not conform to her knowledge. Each elimination g...

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Published inKnowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management Vol. 10024; pp. 180 - 195
Main Author Ferré, Sébastien
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 2016
Springer International Publishing
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Information retrieval
Ontology Authoring
Pizza Ontology
Simple Classical Expression
Vegetarian Pizza
World Exploration
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Summary:We propose a novel approach to ontology authoring that is centered on semantics rather than on syntax. Instead of writing axioms formalizing a domain, the expert is invited to explore the possible worlds of her ontology, and to eliminate those that do not conform to her knowledge. Each elimination generates an axiom that is automatically derived from the explored situation. We have implemented the approach in prototype PEW (Possible World Explorer), and conducted a user study comparing it to Protégé. The results show that more axioms are produced with PEW, without making more errors. More importantly, the produced ontologies are more complete, and hence more deductively powerful, because more negative constraints are expressed.
Bibliography:This research is supported by ANR project IDFRAud (ANR-14-CE28-0012-02).
ISBN:9783319490038
3319490036
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-49004-5_12