Abstract

[kblog-inc server=“arxiv”]1709.08982[/kblog-inc]

Plain English Summary

Ontologies are a mechanism for organising data, so that it can be generated, searched and retrieved accurately. They do this by building a computational model of an area of knowledge or domain.

But, building ontologies is a challenge for a number of reasons. One of the main problems is that building an ontology requires two skills sets: the use and manipulation of a complex formalism, which tends to be the job of an ontologist; and, the deep understanding of the area that it being modelled, which is the job of a domain specialist. It is fairly rare to find a person who understands both areas; so people have to collaborate.

In this paper, we describe new mechanism to enable this collaboration; rather than trying to train domain specialists to build ontologies or use ontology tooling, we instead manipulate an ontology so that it can be viewed as an office doc, which ultimately is the tool that most people are familiar with.