The growing demand for well-modeled ontologies in diverse application areas increases the need for intuitive interaction techniques that support human domain experts in ontology modeling and enrichment tasks, such that quality expectations are met. Beyond the correctness of the specified information, the quality of an ontology depends on its (relative) completeness, i.e., whether the ontology contains all the necessary information to draw expected inferences. On an abstract level, the Ontology Enrichment problem consists of identifying and filling the gap between information that can be logically inferred from the ontology and the information expected to be inferable by the user. To this end, numerous approaches have been described in the literature, providing methodologies from the fields of Formal Semantics and Automated Reasoning targeted at eliciting knowledge from human domain experts. These approaches vary greatly in many aspects and their applicability typically depends on the specifics of the concrete modeling scenario at hand. Toward a better understanding of the landscape of methodological possibilities, this position paper proposes a framework consisting of multiple performance dimensions along which existing and future approaches to interactive ontology enrichment can be characterized. We apply our categorization scheme to a selection of methodologies from the literature. In light of this comparison, we address the limitations of the methods and propose directions for future work.

La crescente domanda di ontologie ben modellate in diverse aree applicative aumenta la necessità di tecniche di interazione intuitive che supportino gli esperti di dominio umani nei compiti di modellazione e arricchimento delle ontologie. Oltre alla correttezza delle informazioni specificate, la qualità di un'ontologia dipende dalla sua (relativa) completezza, cioè dal fatto che l'ontologia contenga tutte le informazioni necessarie per trarre le inferenze previste. A livello astratto, il problema dell'arricchimento dell'ontologia consiste nell'identificare e colmare il divario tra le informazioni che possono essere logicamente inferite dall'ontologia e le informazioni che ci si aspetta siano inferibili dall'utente. A tal fine, in letteratura sono stati descritti numerosi approcci, che forniscono metodologie provenienti dai campi della semantica formale e del ragionamento automatizzato, mirate all'estrazione della conoscenza da parte di esperti di dominio umani. Il presente articolo propone un quadro di riferimento costituito da molteplici dimensioni di valutazione, che viene applicato a una selezione di metodologie presenti in letteratura. Alla luce di questo confronto, affrontiamo i limiti dei metodi e proponiamo indicazioni per il futuro.

Jarno Vrolijk, I.R. (2022). Toward a Comparison Framework for Interactive Ontology Enrichment Methodologies. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Toward a Comparison Framework for Interactive Ontology Enrichment Methodologies

Arcangelo Massari;
2022

Abstract

The growing demand for well-modeled ontologies in diverse application areas increases the need for intuitive interaction techniques that support human domain experts in ontology modeling and enrichment tasks, such that quality expectations are met. Beyond the correctness of the specified information, the quality of an ontology depends on its (relative) completeness, i.e., whether the ontology contains all the necessary information to draw expected inferences. On an abstract level, the Ontology Enrichment problem consists of identifying and filling the gap between information that can be logically inferred from the ontology and the information expected to be inferable by the user. To this end, numerous approaches have been described in the literature, providing methodologies from the fields of Formal Semantics and Automated Reasoning targeted at eliciting knowledge from human domain experts. These approaches vary greatly in many aspects and their applicability typically depends on the specifics of the concrete modeling scenario at hand. Toward a better understanding of the landscape of methodological possibilities, this position paper proposes a framework consisting of multiple performance dimensions along which existing and future approaches to interactive ontology enrichment can be characterized. We apply our categorization scheme to a selection of methodologies from the literature. In light of this comparison, we address the limitations of the methods and propose directions for future work.
2022
Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on the Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data
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Jarno Vrolijk, I.R. (2022). Toward a Comparison Framework for Interactive Ontology Enrichment Methodologies. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Jarno Vrolijk, Ioannis Reklos, Mahsa Vafaie, Arcangelo Massari, Maryam Mohammadi, Sebastian Rudolph
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