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Tools for the Automatic Generation of Ontology Documentation: A Task-Based Evaluation

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  • Silvio Peroni

    (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

  • David Shotton

    (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)

  • Fabio Vitali

    (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)

Abstract

Ontologies are knowledge constructs essential for creation of the Web of Data. Good documentation is required to permit people to understand ontologies and thus employ them correctly, but this is costly to create by tradition authorship methods, and is thus inefficient to create in this way until an ontology has matured into a stable structure. The authors describe three tools, LODE, Parrot and the OWLDoc-based Ontology Browser, that can be used automatically to create documentation from a well-formed OWL ontology at any stage of its development. They contrast their properties and then report on the authors’ evaluation of their effectiveness and usability, determined by two task-based user testing sessions.

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  • Silvio Peroni & David Shotton & Fabio Vitali, 2013. "Tools for the Automatic Generation of Ontology Documentation: A Task-Based Evaluation," International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), IGI Global, vol. 9(1), pages 21-44, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jswis0:v:9:y:2013:i:1:p:21-44
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