Improving Ontology Recommendation and Reuse in WebCORE by Collaborative Assessments

In this work, we present an extension of CORE [2], a tool for Collaborative Ontology Reuse and Evaluation. The system receives an informal description of a specific semantic domain and determines which ontologies from a repository are the most appropriate to describe the given domain. For this task, the environment is divided into three modules. The first component receives the problem description as a set of terms, and allows the user to refine and enlarge it using WordNet. The second module applies multiple automatic criteria to evaluate the ontologies of the repository, and determines which ones fit best the problem description. A ranked list of ontologies is returned for each criterion, and the lists are combined by means of rank fusion techniques. Finally, the third component uses manual user evaluations in order to incorporate a human, collaborative assessment of the ontologies. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Storage and Retrieval]: Information Search and ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Iván Cantador, Miriam Fernández, Pablo Castells
• Keywords: Collaborative Ontology Reuse, Internet Technology, Keywords Ontology Evaluation, Specific Semantic Domain, WWW 2007