Supporting User Roles in Ontology Fuzzification

Abstract

Manual ontology development is clearly a strenuous task. Whilst a variety of ontological engineering methodologies exist, their actual application is far from trivial, mainly due to the widely diverse nature of the tasks involved. In this work we study these tasks and identify the different types of human experts that are best suited to perform each one. As a result, we present a cooperative version of an special purpose ontological engineering methodology, together with a graphical tool that supports it. Our work is focused on ontology fuzzification, but it can be easily generalized and applied in any ontology engineering context.