Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment

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Galli, Maria Rosa; Reynares, Emiliano; Caliusco, Maria Laura
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2014
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Ontology development techniques still constitute an open research area despite its importance in semantic aware information systems. Until now, most methods have used UML in supporting ontology development process. Recent works propose the mapping of business rules expressions to ontology statements as a building technique by means of SBVR language. However, there is still no experimental research comparing such approaches. Aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of mapping business domain expressions to ontology statements. An exploratory experiment comparing performance of techniques based on UML and SBVR languages is presented. Comparison is rooted in the quality assessment of the ontologies developed by 10 equally sized groups randomly conformed by 30 undergraduate engineering students and applying such techniques. Developed ontologies largely outperform the minimally acceptable quality, according to the considered quality assessment framework. There is no statistical significant difference between the quality scores of the ontologies developed by means of UML and SBVR techniques, in any of the assessed quality dimensions. The feasibility of mapping business domain expressions to ontology statements is shown: ontologies developed by means of a SBVR based approach at least equate the quality of ontologies developed by using an UML based method. Results confirm previous research about the effectiveness of UML approaches for conceptualizing lightweight ontologies while stressing the potential of the SBVR language to express complex notions of a domain of interest. The potential of SBVR to OWL 2 mappings as an ontology development technique worthy of further study is highlighted.
Fil: Galli, Maria Rosa. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Ingenieria en Sistemas de Informacion; Argentina
Fil: Reynares, Emiliano. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Ingenieria en Sistemas de Informacion; Argentina
Fil: Caliusco, Maria Laura. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Ingenieria en Sistemas de Informacion; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño (i); Argentina
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Ontology Development
Experiment Exploratory
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
title Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
spellingShingle Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
Galli, Maria Rosa
Ontology Development
Experiment Exploratory
title_short Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
title_full Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
title_fullStr Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
title_full_unstemmed Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
title_sort Approaching the feasibility of SBVR as modeling language for ontology development: An exploratory experiment
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Galli, Maria Rosa
Reynares, Emiliano
Caliusco, Maria Laura
author Galli, Maria Rosa
author_facet Galli, Maria Rosa
Reynares, Emiliano
Caliusco, Maria Laura
author_role author
author2 Reynares, Emiliano
Caliusco, Maria Laura
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ontology Development
Experiment Exploratory
topic Ontology Development
Experiment Exploratory
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Ontology development techniques still constitute an open research area despite its importance in semantic aware information systems. Until now, most methods have used UML in supporting ontology development process. Recent works propose the mapping of business rules expressions to ontology statements as a building technique by means of SBVR language. However, there is still no experimental research comparing such approaches. Aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of mapping business domain expressions to ontology statements. An exploratory experiment comparing performance of techniques based on UML and SBVR languages is presented. Comparison is rooted in the quality assessment of the ontologies developed by 10 equally sized groups randomly conformed by 30 undergraduate engineering students and applying such techniques. Developed ontologies largely outperform the minimally acceptable quality, according to the considered quality assessment framework. There is no statistical significant difference between the quality scores of the ontologies developed by means of UML and SBVR techniques, in any of the assessed quality dimensions. The feasibility of mapping business domain expressions to ontology statements is shown: ontologies developed by means of a SBVR based approach at least equate the quality of ontologies developed by using an UML based method. Results confirm previous research about the effectiveness of UML approaches for conceptualizing lightweight ontologies while stressing the potential of the SBVR language to express complex notions of a domain of interest. The potential of SBVR to OWL 2 mappings as an ontology development technique worthy of further study is highlighted.
Fil: Galli, Maria Rosa. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Ingenieria en Sistemas de Informacion; Argentina
Fil: Reynares, Emiliano. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Ingenieria en Sistemas de Informacion; Argentina
Fil: Caliusco, Maria Laura. Universidad Tecnologica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Centro de Investigacion y Desarrollo de Ingenieria en Sistemas de Informacion; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño (i); Argentina
description Ontology development techniques still constitute an open research area despite its importance in semantic aware information systems. Until now, most methods have used UML in supporting ontology development process. Recent works propose the mapping of business rules expressions to ontology statements as a building technique by means of SBVR language. However, there is still no experimental research comparing such approaches. Aim of this work is to evaluate the feasibility of mapping business domain expressions to ontology statements. An exploratory experiment comparing performance of techniques based on UML and SBVR languages is presented. Comparison is rooted in the quality assessment of the ontologies developed by 10 equally sized groups randomly conformed by 30 undergraduate engineering students and applying such techniques. Developed ontologies largely outperform the minimally acceptable quality, according to the considered quality assessment framework. There is no statistical significant difference between the quality scores of the ontologies developed by means of UML and SBVR techniques, in any of the assessed quality dimensions. The feasibility of mapping business domain expressions to ontology statements is shown: ontologies developed by means of a SBVR based approach at least equate the quality of ontologies developed by using an UML based method. Results confirm previous research about the effectiveness of UML approaches for conceptualizing lightweight ontologies while stressing the potential of the SBVR language to express complex notions of a domain of interest. The potential of SBVR to OWL 2 mappings as an ontology development technique worthy of further study is highlighted.
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