Title
The justificatory structure of the NCBO bioportal ontologies
Abstract
Current ontology development tools offer debugging support by presenting justifications for entailments of OWL ontologies. While these minimal subsets have been shown to support debugging and understanding tasks, the occurrence of multiple justifications presents a significant cognitive challenge to users. In many cases even a single entailment may have many distinct justifications, and justifications for distinct entailments may be critically related. However, it is currently unknown how prevalent significant numbers of multiple justifications per entailment are in the field. To address this lack, we examine the justifications from an independently motivated corpus of actively used biomedical ontologies from the NCBO BioPortal. We find that the majority of ontologies contain multiple justifications, while also exhibiting structural features (such as patterns) which can be exploited in order to reduce user effort in the ontology engineering process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-25073-6_5
International Semantic Web Conference (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
significant cognitive challenge,single entailment,prevalent significant number,current ontology development tool,biomedical ontology,owl ontology,distinct justification,multiple justification,ncbo bioportal ontology,distinct entailment,justificatory structure,ontology engineering process
Ontology (information science),Data mining,Ontology,Ontology engineering,Logical consequence,Computer science,Open Biomedical Ontologies,Database,Debugging
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
7031
0302-9743
10
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
25
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Samantha Bail11068.03
Matthew Horridge2140386.26
Bijan Parsia36146429.53
Ulrike Sattler46177478.47