Summary of Discerning and Characterising Types Of Competency Questions For Ontologies, by C. Maria Keet et al.
Discerning and Characterising Types of Competency Questions for Ontologies
by C. Maria Keet, Zubeida Casmod Khan
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper presents a comprehensive model for competency questions (CQs) in ontology development. The authors aim to improve the clarity and effectiveness of CQs by analyzing their nature and constituent parts. They propose a five-type model, including Scoping, Validating, Foundational, Relationship, and Metaproperty questions, each with distinct purposes. This framework is illustrated through a user story and evaluated for its usability in ontology development tasks. To facilitate research and practical applications, the authors created an annotated repository of 438 CQs, the Repository of Ontology Competency QuestionS (ROCQS), which includes both existing and new CQs and templates. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps us understand how to create good questions for developing ontologies. Ontologists use these questions to make sure their work is accurate and complete. But until now, there hasn’t been a clear guide on how to write these questions or check if they’re any good. The authors of this paper want to change that by providing a framework for understanding different types of questions and how they can be used in ontology development. They also created a big collection of questions (438!) called ROCQS, which includes examples and templates to help people use the new model. |
