Semantic Web can be seen as the web scale knowledge base where ontologies are in- tended to provide knowledge engineering and artificial intelligence support for mod- elling intelligent applications. Semantic Web Search Engine (SWSE), such as Watson, Swoogle and Sindice represent the state of the art of computer based system to sup- port users in finding and therefore in reusing, the formalised knowledge and semantic data (ontologies) available on line. However, to find ontologies is a complex process. It generally requires formulating multiple queries, browsing many pages of results and assessing the returned ontologies against each other to obtain a relevant and adequate subset for the intended use. In this thesis we mainly focused on the investigation of the following research hypothesis: part of the issue with searching ontologies through SWSE systems comes from the lack of structure in the search results, where ontologies that are implicitly related to each other are presented as disconnected. Making explicit relationships between ontologies in the results of SWSEs improves their efficiency and the user satisfaction in searching ontologies. We use an ontology-based framework in order to both identify the characteristic of such relationships and design mechanisms for detecting and managing them in large scale ontology repository. We show how this framework is used on top of the repository of the Watson semantic web search engine, and integrated with its interface, in order to provide explicit information re- garding the various types of relationships ontologies share in the results from Watson. We evaluate the benefit of this approach to ontology search in a user study, showing through multiple indicators that finding ontologies is made easier and more efficient when information regarding relationships between ontologies is used to provide links and structuring mechanisms in the results of the search engine.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:578660 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Allocca, Carlo |
| Publisher | Open University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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