COREO - Community Refinement of Ontology

• Main Authors: Ang, Tinmon, Chua, Alloy, Chua, Roland, Dychiching, Arthur
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Ontology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/9426
• Institution: De La Salle University

The use of ontologies has already been recognized in recent years such as for the Semantic Web. However, being faced with the bottlenecks of the traditional expert-driven ontology engineering approaches, the need for approaches involving collaborative work has been recognized. Due to this reason, there have been other studies in recent years towards the integration of the existing social communities into the building of ontologies. However, an issue still lies in the participation of the social communities as their contribution towards building of the ontologies is explicit and may thus compromise their involvement and assistance. This research has been able to integrate the potential of the social community found in existing social networks into the learning and validation incorporated in the building of ontologies. The integration of involvement of the social community was made implicit and was completely hidden through incorporating it into a game and the in-game actions that are common and are appealing to the community along with the incorporation of incentive schemes which motivated their participation. This research has been able to identify that the approach works in refining the ontology in terms of validating and invalidating Kind-Of relationships but is otherwise in Same As and Instance-Of relationships. The research has also been able to identify the factors involved in sustaining the participation of the community as well as the user dependency of the system in terms of yielding a refined ontology.