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Ontology engineering using volunteer labor

Published: 08 May 2007 Publication History

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We describe an approach designed to reduce the costs of ontology development through the use of untrained, volunteer knowledge engineers. Results are provided from an experiment in which volunteers were asked to judge the correctness of automatically inferred subsumption relationships in the biomedical domain. The experiment indicated that volunteers can be recruited fairly easily but that their attention is difficult to hold, that most do not understand the subsumption relationship without training, and that incorporating learned estimates of trust into voting systems is beneficial to aggregate performance.

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WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
May 2007
1382 pages
ISBN:9781595936547
DOI:10.1145/1242572
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Published: 08 May 2007

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  1. knowledge acquisition
  2. ontology engineering
  3. semantic web

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WWW'07: 16th International World Wide Web Conference
May 8 - 12, 2007
Alberta, Banff, Canada

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