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Human-mediated visual ontology alignment

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Monika Lanzenberger,

Jennifer SampsonAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part II

Pages 394 - 403

Published: 22 July 2007 Publication History

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We develop a multiple-view tool called AlViz, which aims at supporting the ontology alignment process visually. Combing views on several levels of abstraction, the tool tries to make the 'relatedness' between entities accessible. Based on a literature study we identified relevant phases emerging in ontology alignment. We extended a general alignment framework in order to reflect the adoption of visualization techniques. This framework builds the background for our user study. We evaluate visual ontology alignment with AlViz in three stages: (1) Participative software development, (2) usability evaluation, and (3) utility study. The evaluation methods proved viable even though our study design is challenging.

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Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part II

July 2007

1161 pages

ISBN:9783540733539

Editors:
Michael J. Smith
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Madison, WI
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Gavriel Salvendy
Purdue University, Department of Industrial Engineering, West Lafayette, IN

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