Usability of a visual language for DL concept descriptions

Authors:
Fernando Náufel do Amaral
Affiliations:
Laboratório de Lógica e Representação do Conhecimento, Depto. de Ciência e Tecnologia, Pólo Universitário de Rio das Ostras, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio ...
Venue:
RR'10 Proceedings of the Fourth international conference on Web reasoning and rule systems
Year:
2010

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Abstract

The development and use of ontologies may require users with no training in formal logic to handle complex concept descriptions. To aid such users, we propose a new visualization framework called "model outlines", where more emphasis is placed on the semantics of concept descriptions than on their syntax. We have conducted a usability study comparing model outlines and Manchester OWL, with results that indicate the potential benefits of our visual language for understanding concept descriptions.