Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use
Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their intended purposes. It is not uncommon that when applications and services are deployed over an ontology, only a few parts of the ontology are queried and used. Identifying which parts of an ontology are being used could be helpful to winnow the ontology, i.e., simplify or shrink the ontology to smaller, more fit for purpose size. Some approaches to handle this problem have already been suggested in the literature. However, none of that work showed how ontology-based applications can be used in the ontology-resizing process, or how they might be affected by it. This paper presents a study on the use of the AKT Reference Ontology by a number of applications and services, and investigates the possibility of relying on this usage information to winnow that ontology.
ontology
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O'Neil, Ben
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Alani, Harith
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Harris, Stephen
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O'Neil, Ben
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Alani, Harith, Harris, Stephen and O'Neil, Ben
(2006)
Winnowing Ontologies based on Application Use.
3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Budva, Montenegro.
11 - 14 Jun 2006.
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The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are reused or built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large for their intended purposes. It is not uncommon that when applications and services are deployed over an ontology, only a few parts of the ontology are queried and used. Identifying which parts of an ontology are being used could be helpful to winnow the ontology, i.e., simplify or shrink the ontology to smaller, more fit for purpose size. Some approaches to handle this problem have already been suggested in the literature. However, none of that work showed how ontology-based applications can be used in the ontology-resizing process, or how they might be affected by it. This paper presents a study on the use of the AKT Reference Ontology by a number of applications and services, and investigates the possibility of relying on this usage information to winnow that ontology.
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Published date: 2006
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Event Dates: June 11-14
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3rd European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Budva, Montenegro, 2006-06-11 - 2006-06-14
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ontology
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Web & Internet Science
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Local EPrints ID: 262070
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/262070
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Harith Alani
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Stephen Harris
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Ben O'Neil
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