Generating User Guides For Ontologies: A Domain And Schema Independent Verbalisation Approach

Abstract

Ontology development is an incremental and iterative task. In that atmosphere, manual creation/maintenance of a user ^guide for an ontology will be difficult and require much effort for both ontologists and domain specialists. However,  maintaining a user guide documentation throughout and after the ontology construction process has many advantages   (discussed in the paper). Verbalisation (the process of converting technical encodings in an ontology to natural language) ^is the technical process that can be introduced to automate the user guide construction process. Existing verbalisation   mechanisms have numerous shortcomings. In this research, a novel verbalisation mechanism is introduced, addressing   existing shortcomings to facilitate the iterative and incremental growth of the user guide ^along with the ontology’s evaluation