Mecureo
Trent Apted, Chris Ackad, William Niu, Judy Kay
School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney
Contact Person
Trent Apted
tapted@it.usyd.edu.au
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Project Description
Rather than creating the ontology by hand, we have built MECUREO, a tool for automatically constructing an ontology. It uses an existing, reliable resource to ensure appropriate coverage of terms in a specialised domain, such as computer science or HCI. This saves a considerable amount of effort and helps minimise errors while maximising breadth of coverage. The generated ontology may also serve as a basis for refinement by hand. For example, it is often easier to categorise an unknown relationship (that is, a relationship known to exist for which there is not enough information to categorise it) by examining the automatic construction than it is to identify a relationship independently.
Some Examples
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Key Publications
T. Apted, J. Kay, and A. Lum. Supporting metadata creation with an ontology built from an extensible dictionary. In P. de Bra and W. Nejdl, editors, Proceedings of AH 2004, 3rd International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, volume 3137 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 4-13, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2004. Springer-Verlag. [View Details]
T. Apted and J. Kay. Mecureo ontology and modelling tools. International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Lifelong Learning (Special Issue on Concepts and Ontologies in WBES), 14(3):191-211, 2004. [View Details]
T. Apted, J. Kay, and A. Lum. Visualisation of learning ontologies. In U. Hoppe, F. Verdejo, and J. Kay, editors, Proceedings of AIED 2003, 11th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, pages 359-361. IOS Press (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), 2003. [View Details]
T. Apted, J. Kay, A. Lum, and J. Uther. Visualisation of ontological inferences for user control of personal web agents. In E. Banissi, K. Borner, C. Chen, G. Clapworthy, C. Maple, A. Lobben, C. Moore, J. Roberts, A. Ursyn, and J. Zhang, editors, Proceedings of IV '03, 7th International Conference on Information Visualization, pages 306-311. IEEE Computer Society (Washington, DC, USA), 2003. [View Details]
T. Apted and J. Kay. Generating and comparing models within an ontology. In J. Kay and J. Thom, editors, Proceedings of ADCS 2002, Australian Document Computing Symposium, pages 63-78. ADCS, 2002. [View Details]
T. Apted and J. Kay. Automatic construction of learning ontologies. In L. Aroyo and D. Dicheva, editors, Proceedings of the ICCE (International Conference on Computers in Education) 2002 Workshop on Concepts and Ontologies in Web-based Educational Systems, pages 55-62. IEEE Computer Society (Washington, DC, USA), 2002. [View Details]
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