Multi perspective Ontology Engineering
- 1. Background and Motivation Contributions Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering R. Denaux1 A. G. Cohn1 V. Dimitrova1 G. Hart2 1 School of Computing University of Leeds 2 Ordnance Survey Research Invited Talk at Department of Computer Science Sheffield, 2010 Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 2. Background and Motivation Contributions Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 3. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 4. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 5. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 6. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 7. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 8. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 9. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 10. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 11. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 12. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 13. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 14. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Context of Research Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 15. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes ROO: Rabbit to OWL Ontology Authoring. Example of adapting to ontology contributors Domain experts: Good knowledge of the domain to be represented Limited or no Ontology Engineering experience Limited or no knowledge of OWL, Protégé, etc. ROO provides tool support for domain experts: Guidance through ontology construction methodology Controlled Natural Language interface No OWL specific terminology Adaptation at design time, not at runtime Re-use techniques from User Modelling and Personalisation Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 16. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 17. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes Ontology Development 101 Natalya F. Noy and Deborah L. McGuinness There is no one correct way to model a domain there are always viable alternatives. The best solution almost always depends on the application that you have in mind and the extensions that you anticipate. . . . deciding what we are going to use the ontology for . . . will guide many of the modeling decisions down the road.1 1 N. F. Noy and D. Mcguinness. Ontology development 101: A guide to creating your first ontology, 2000 Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 18. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes METHONTOLOGY The goal of the specification phase is to produce either an informal, semi-formal or formal ontology specification document. METHONTOLOGY proposes that at least the following information be included: (a) The purpose of the ontology, including its intended uses, scenarios of use, end-users, etc. ... 2 2 M. Fernandez-Lopez, A. Gomez-Perez, and N. Juristo. Methontology: from ontological art towards ontological engineering. In Proceedings of the AAAI97 Spring Symposium Series on Ontological Engineering, pages 33–40, 1997 Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 19. Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Contributions Ontology Purposes DILIGENT Local adaptation: once the core ontology is available, users work with it and adapt it locally to their own needs. Typically, they will have their own business requirements and correspondingly change their local ontologies. 3 3 Denny Vrandecic, H. Sofia Pinto, York Sure, and Christoph Tempich. The diligent knowledge processes. Journal of Knowledge Management, 9(5):85–96, OCT 2005 Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 20. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 21. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Purpose-driven Adaptive Ontology Reuse. Derive model of Ontology Purposes Use this model to capture new ontology purposes Suggest ontology to reuse based on matching ontology purpose Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 22. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Goal-aware Ontology Editor Use case: Ontology Re-use Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 23. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Goal-aware Ontology Editor Use case: Ontology Re-use Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 24. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Goal-aware Ontology Editor Use case: Ontology Re-use Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 25. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Goal-aware Ontology Editor Use case: Ontology Re-use Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 26. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 27. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Purpose Example ontology: Ordnance Survey Hydrology Ontology v2 source: ontology annotation free text: "Purpose: To describe in an unambiguous manner the inland hydrology feature classes surveyed by Ordnance Survey with the intention of improving the use of the surveyed data by our customers and enabling semi-automatic processing of these data." Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 28. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Representing Ontology Purposes. Deriving Vocabulary from a corpus 4 4 Ronald Denaux, Anthony G. Cohn, Vania Dimitrova, and Glen Hart. Towards modelling the intended purpose of ontologies: A case study in geography. In Proceedings of the Terra Cognita Workshop, collocated with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-2009), volume 518. CEUR-WS, 2009 Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 29. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Purpose Categories Domain Defining Ontology Process Related Data Process Related Investigative Collaboration Enhancing External Application Analogous Example Code Task Focus Restrictions OS1 Describe Domain Domain is restricted to feature classes surveyed by Ordnance Survey Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 30. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Purpose Categories Domain Defining Ontology Process Related Data Process Related Investigative Collaboration Enhancing External Application Analogous Example Code Task Focus Restrictions Pont5 Facilitate Ontology Process is the Process alignment of ontologies Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 31. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Purpose Categories Domain Defining Ontology Process Related Data Process Related Investigative Collaboration Enhancing External Application Analogous Example Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 32. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 33. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Representing Ontology Purposes in OWL Goals Enable ontology contributors to formalise their ontology purpose Allows users to express themselves in a manner that is close to the way they would normally use (free text) classify ontologies based on their purpose Can be extended by ontology contributors Starting point: usable but not intended to cover all possible purposes Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 34. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Example Formalisation OS Example OS Hydrology Ontology aims to describe the OS Hydrology Feature Classes. OS Hydrology Ontology intends to enable the Semi-automatic Processing of Ordnance Survey Data. OS Hydrology Ontology intends to improve the Data Usage of Ordnance Survey Customers. Inferences we want OS Hydrology Ontology is a Data Processing Ontology. OS Hydrology Ontology is a Domain Specifying Ontology. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 35. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Abstract and Concrete levels Abstract Concepts and Relations Agent, Artifact, Creation Action, has (purpose) focus, Purpose Focus, Purpose Task. A Data Processing Ontology is anything that: is a kind of Ontology; has purpose focus at least one Data Process. Concrete Concepts and Relations aims to describe, describes, aims to facilitate, aims to provide, intends to enable, data process. The relationship intends to improve is a special type of the relationship has purpose focus. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 36. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Outline 1 Background and Motivation Multi-perspective Ontology Engineering Ontology Purposes 2 Contributions Goal-aware Ontology Editor Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Formalisation Current Work Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 37. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Purpose Elicitation Dialogue Elicit formal description of ontology purpose in order to classify ontology. Aid user to make transition from free text to formal representation. Use Ontology of Purpose Ontologies to guide dialogue episode. Dialogue at concrete level, reasoning at abstract level. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 38. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Basic Dialogue Structure Elicit free text purpose description NLP analysis to generate purpose hypotheses Clarify and confirm hypotheses: elicit instances linked to concrete concepts succeeds when classification can be made Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 39. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Basic Dialogue Structure Elicit free text purpose description NLP analysis to generate purpose hypotheses Clarify and confirm hypotheses: elicit instances linked to concrete concepts succeeds when classification can be made Annotations To describe in an unambiguous manner the inland hydrology feature classes surveyed by Ordnance Survey with the intention of improving the use of the surveyed data by our customers and enabling semi-automatic processing of these data. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 40. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Basic Dialogue Structure Elicit free text purpose description NLP analysis to generate purpose hypotheses Clarify and confirm hypotheses: elicit instances linked to concrete concepts succeeds when classification can be made Hypothesis Domain Describing Ontology OS Hydrology Ontology aims to describe X. X is a Knowledge Domain. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 41. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Basic Dialogue Structure Elicit free text purpose description NLP analysis to generate purpose hypotheses Clarify and confirm hypotheses: elicit instances linked to concrete concepts succeeds when classification can be made Hypothesis Data Processing Ontology OS Hydrology Ontology intends to enable X. X is a Data Usage. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 42. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Architecture Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 43. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work Plan Implement Dialogue Plan generation for a few purpose types Evaluate Dialogue Plan generation without Rabbit interpreter Add Rabbit interpreter and evaluate with real users Suggest ontology to reuse based on matching ontology purpose Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 44. Goal-aware Ontology Editor Background and Motivation Ontology Purpose Vocabulary Contributions Formalisation Current Work The End Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering
- 45. Acknowledgements Creative Commons Images from flckr.com Surveyor image by Wessex Archeology Water Ecologist by lindenbaum Flood Rescuer by Tree & J Hensdill Orienteerer by Tarnie Dilbert visionary strip, copyright UFS, Inc. Denaux, Cohn, Dimitrova and Hart Multi-Perspective Ontology Engineering