ROC: A Method for Proto-ontology Construction by Domain Experts

Abstract. Ontology construction is a labour-intensive and costly process. Even though many formal and semi-formal vocabularies are available, creating an ontology for a specific application is hindered in a number of ways. Firstly, the process of elicitating concepts is a time consuming and strenuous process. Secondly, it is difficult to keep focus. Thirdly, technical modelling constructs are hard to understand for the uninitiated. We propose ROC as a method to cope with these problems. ROC builds on well-known approaches for ontology construction. However, we reuse existing sources to generate a repository of proposed associations. ROC assists in efficiently putting forward all relevant concepts and relations by providing a large set of potential candidate associations. Secondly, rather than using intermediate representations of formal constructs we confront the domain expert with `natural-language-like' statements generated from RDF-based triples. Moreover, we strictly separate ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ASWC
• Authors: Nicole J. J. P. Koenderink, Mark van Assem, J. Lars Hulzebos, Jeen Broekstra, Jan L. Top
• Keywords: ASWC 2008, Domain Expert, Internet Technology, Ontology Construction, Problem Owner