Selected results of a comparative study of four ontology visualization methods for information retrieval tasks

Author

Katifori, Akrivi ; Torou, Elena ; Vassilakis, Costas ; Lepouras, Georgios ; Halatsis, Constantin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Telecommun., Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2008

fDate

3-6 June 2008

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

140

Abstract

The need for effective ontology visualization for design, management and browsing has arisen as a result of the progress in the areas of semantic Web and personal information management. There are several ontology visualizations available through existing ontology management tools, but not as many evaluations to determine their advantages and disadvantages and their suitability for various ontologies and user groups. This work presents selected results of an evaluation of four visualization methods in Protege.

Keywords

data visualisation; information retrieval; ontologies (artificial intelligence); personal information systems; semantic Web; Protege; four ontology visualization methods; information retrieval tasks; ontology management tools; personal information management; semantic Web; Computer science; Informatics; Information management; Information retrieval; Ontologies; Research and development management; Semantic Web; Technology management; User interfaces; Visualization; Information retrieval; User interfaces; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research Challenges in Information Science, 2008. RCIS 2008. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1677-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2273-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632101

Filename

4632101