Engineering ontologies for question answering

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Teitsma, Marten^; | Sandberg, Jacobijn | Schreiber, Guus | Wielinga, Bob | van Hage, Willem Robert

Affiliations: Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] | University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected] | VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mails: {guus.schreiber, b.j.wielinga, w.r.van.hage}@vu.nl

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Abstract: Using an ontology to automatically generate questions for ordinary people requires a structure and concepts compliant with human thought. Here we present methods to develop a pragmatic, expert-based and a basic-level ontology and a framework to evaluate these ontologies. Comparing these ontologies shows that expert-based ontologies are most easy to construct but lack required cognitive semantic characteristics. Basic-level ontologies have structure and concepts which are better in terms of cognitive semantics but are most expensive to construct.

Keywords: Basic-level ontology, automatic ontology generation, ontology metrics, prototype theory

DOI: 10.3233/AO-140130

Journal: Applied Ontology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-25, 2014