Usability of upper level ontologies: The case of ResearchCyc

Conesa, Jordi; Sugumaran, Vijayan

doi:10.1016/j.datak.2009.08.002

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“…Despite revisions after the pilot study, some of the users did not always understand what they were supposed to do and sought clarification several times. This difficulty might have been caused by a lack of documentation on the purpose of the browser and how it would be used [38] as well as incomplete previous knowledge.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability evaluation of a web-based ontology browser: the case of TSONT

Yılmaz¹,

Durak²,

Oğuztüzün³

et al. 2018

Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci

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Abstract:As the use of ontologies expands, their visualization is becoming increasingly important. In this study, an ontology browser for visualizing the Trajectory Simulation ONTology (TSONT) was evaluated in terms of usability by considering its subdimensions, which are effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction. The methodology employed in this study for evaluating an ontology browser is reported along with the results of the evaluation. The TSONT browser is a tree-type ontology browser created to allow developers to visualize TSONT. Six flight simulation programmers with at least one year of experience participated in the study. The participants were given usability tasks and their voices and eye movements were recorded using a sound recorder and eye-tracker, respectively. The results not only showed that guidance and terminology influence the efficiency, effectiveness, and user satisfaction of the ontology browser, but they also revealed important insights into the requisites of the general usability of ontologies, even in simple text-based interfaces.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability evaluation of a web-based ontology browser: the case of TSONT

Yılmaz¹,

Durak²,

Oğuztüzün³

et al. 2018

Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci

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“…sets of rules, see e.g. [26,44] for details), Cyc itself, when freed from its cyclopaedic or universalistic ideology, can be considered as a paradigmatic example of a hyperontology (compare the formal definition in Def. 2.5).…”

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Carnap, Goguen, and the Hyperontologies: Logical Pluralism and Heterogeneous Structuring in Ontology Design

2010

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This paper addresses questions of universality related to ontological engineering, namely aims at substantiating (negative) answers to the following three basic questions: (i) Is there a 'universal ontology' ?, (ii) Is there a 'universal formal ontology language' ?, and (iii) Is there a universally applicable 'mode of reasoning' for formal ontologies? To support our answers in a principled way, we present a general framework for the design of formal ontologies resting on two main principles: firstly, we endorse Rudolf Carnap's principle of logical tolerance by giving central stage to the concept of logical heterogeneity, i.e. the use of a plurality of logical languages within one ontology design. Secondly, to structure and combine heterogeneous ontologies in a semantically wellfounded way, we base our work on abstract model theory in the form of institutional semantics, as forcefully put forward by Joseph Goguen and Rod Burstall. In particular, we employ the structuring mechanisms of the heterogeneous algebraic specification language HetCasl for defining a general concept of heterogeneous, distributed, highly modular and structured ontologies, called hyperontologies. Moreover, we distinguish, on a structural and semantic level, several different kinds of combining and aligning heterogeneous ontologies, namely integration, connection, and refinement. We show how the notion of heterogeneous refinement can be used to provide both a general notion of sub-ontology as well as a notion of heterogeneous equivalence of ontologies, and finally sketch how different modes of reasoning over ontologies are related to these different structuring aspects.Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). Primary 68T30; Secondary 03C95.

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“…La majoria d'ontologies d'alt nivell contenen informació turística i geogràfica i, per tant, podrien ser usades per assistir als sistemes informàtics turístics, tal com es pot veure a la figura 5. El principal problema d'utilitzar aquest tipus d'ontologies és la seva dificultat d'ús (Conesa, V. C. Storey, and Sugumaran 2010), que provoca que tinguin una menor adopció i dificulti la interoperabilitat.…”

Section: Ontologies En L'àmbit Del Turismeunclassified

Effective Use of Ontologies

Conesa¹,

Roma²

2012

IN3 work. pap. ser.

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Usability of upper level ontologies: The case of ResearchCyc

Cited by 31 publications

References 10 publications

Usability evaluation of a web-based ontology browser: the case of TSONT

Usability evaluation of a web-based ontology browser: the case of TSONT

Carnap, Goguen, and the Hyperontologies: Logical Pluralism and Heterogeneous Structuring in Ontology Design

Effective Use of Ontologies

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