Towards Designing a Tool For Understanding Proofs in Ontologies through Combined Node-Link Diagrams

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Abstract

As the creation of large ontologies is a difficult and error-prone process, we think it is particularly relevant to develop new visual and interactive tools that support exploring ontologies as well as finding and resolving defects, such as undesired logical entailments. Exhibiting formal proofs for the undesired entailments can help in understanding how a defect happens, and linking the steps in the proof to the ontology can help in determining how the defect can be fixed. We present an interface that visualizes proofs and the corresponding ontology in form of side-by-side node-link diagrams. Building on linked brushing, users benefit from a strong interplay between these views, which allows for discovering and understanding defects. Besides traditional desktop workplaces, our interaction design also considers the use of touch input enabled by interactive displays. As part of an iterative design process, we developed an initial web-based prototype implementation and gathered feedback from an interview with domain experts. With this ongoing research and development, we aim to further investigate the potential and general utility of interactive visualizations for ontology engineering.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationVOILA 2020 Visualization and Interaction for Ontologies and Linked Data
EditorsValentina Ivanova, Patrick Lambrix, Catia Pesquita, Vitalis Wiens
Pages28-40
Number of pages13
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2020
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume2778
ISSN1613-0073

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0003-4519-2168/work/142253690
ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/151435405

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