| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S44686/01 |
| Title: |
HyOntUse: Hybrid User Oriented to Ontology Tools |
| Principal Investigator: |
Rector, Professor A |
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Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Manchester, The |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 October 2003 |
Ends: |
31 March 2007 |
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303,929
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| Information & Knowledge Mgmt |
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Metadata and ontologies are widely identified as key technologies for E-Science. However, the ontologies for each domain need to be developed and 'owned' by the experts in that domain. Although they provide greatly increased power, domain experts often find logic based languages such as OWL (formerly DAML+OIL) unintuitive and difficult to use. We address two parts of this problem a) Presenting the ontology in ways which domain users t easy to understand, develop, and maintain; and b) providing tools to help them understand when the inferences provided by the logic engine do not their expectations - i.e. to debug the ontology. No complete formal solution is known for either problem at this time for the tableaux reasoners which underpin OWL. Therefore we propose a heuristic approach.(Note: This is one of a pair of projects under this initiative. The other, CO-ODE, submitted to JISC seeks to provide and evaluate a user-oriented plug- and-play environment combining OilEd with Stanford's Proteg6.environment).
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http://www.man.ac.uk |