Lightweight Community-Driven Ontology Evolution

@incollection{citeulike:2724230, abstract = {Only few well-maintained domain ontologies can be found on the Web. The likely reasons for the lack of useful domain ontologies include that (1) informal means to convey intended meaning more efficiently are used for ontology specification only to a very limited extent, (2) many relevant domains of discourse show a substantial degree of conceptual dynamics, (3) ontology representation languages are hard to understand for the majority of (potential) ontology users and domain experts, and (4) the community does not have control over the ontology evolution. In this thesis, we propose to (1) ground a methodology for community-grounded ontology building on the culture and philosophy of wikis by giving users who have no or little expertise in ontology engineering the opportunity to contribute in all stages of the ontology lifecycle and (2) exploit the combination of human and computational intelligence to discover and resolve inconsistencies and align lightweight domain ontologies. The contribution of this thesis is a methodology and prototype for community-grounded building and evolution of lightweight domain ontologies.}, author = {Siorpaes, Katharina }, citeulike-article-id = {2724230}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0\_76}, journal = {The Semantic Web}, keywords = {community, evolution, ontology}, pages = {951--955}, posted-at = {2008-04-29 07:55:42}, priority = {2}, title = {Lightweight Community-Driven Ontology Evolution}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0\_76}, year = {2008} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:2724230 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2724230 TI - Lightweight Community-Driven Ontology Evolution JF - The Semantic Web SP - 951 EP - 955 N2 - Only few well-maintained domain ontologies can be found on the Web. The likely reasons for the lack of useful domain ontologies include that (1) informal means to convey intended meaning more efficiently are used for ontology specification only to a very limited extent, (2) many relevant domains of discourse show a substantial degree of conceptual dynamics, (3) ontology representation languages are hard to understand for the majority of (potential) ontology users and domain experts, and (4) the community does not have control over the ontology evolution. In this thesis, we propose to (1) ground a methodology for community-grounded ontology building on the culture and philosophy of wikis by giving users who have no or little expertise in ontology engineering the opportunity to contribute in all stages of the ontology lifecycle and (2) exploit the combination of human and computational intelligence to discover and resolve inconsistencies and align lightweight domain ontologies. The contribution of this thesis is a methodology and prototype for community-grounded building and evolution of lightweight domain ontologies. KW - community KW - evolution KW - ontology AU - Siorpaes, Katharina PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76298-0_76 ER -