Supporting domain experts to construct conceptual ontologies: A holistic approach

Journal of Web Semantics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-127

  Denaux, Ronald ^a   Dolbear, Catherine ^c   Hart, Glen ^b   Dimitrova, Vania ^a   Cohn, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ORDNANCE SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c SHARP LABORATORIES OF EUROPE LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Controlled natural language; Intelligent user interfaces; Ontology engineering; Semantic web usability

Indexed keywords

AUTHORING PROCESS; AUTHORING TOOL; CONTROLLED NATURAL LANGUAGE; CREATION PROCESS; DOMAIN EXPERTS; HOLISTIC APPROACH; INTEGRATED APPROACH; INTELLIGENT TECHNIQUES; INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERS; ONTOLOGY CONSTRUCTION; ONTOLOGY DEVELOPMENT; ONTOLOGY ENGINEERING; RECENT TRENDS; SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB USABILITY; SEMANTIC WIKIS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT; TOOL SUPPORT; USER STUDY;

ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; USER INTERFACES;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 80051550725     PISSN: 15708268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.websem.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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