Debugging Ontologies Dataset

Visualization has been widely used for the representation of ontologies. However, to the best of our knowledge, visualization has been little employed in ontology debugging. Effective ontology debugging is crucial for engineers and domain experts to have confidence that their ontologies satisfactorily represent the intended domain. In this dataset, performed a qualitative study of 10 experienced ontology engineers, and determined that concept diagrams can provide additional debugging support for engineers, and moreover can give engineers higher confidence in their repairs. However, this additional support is not universal; the inferential advantage of using concept diagrams is eroded for certain description logic axiom combinations. The study was conducted in autumn 2016.可视化技术已被广泛应用于本体（Ontology）的表示工作。然而据我们所知，可视化技术在本体调试（ontology debugging）中的应用却极为有限。高效的本体调试是工程师与领域专家确信自身构建的本体能够恰当地契合预设领域的核心前提。本数据集所依托的研究共针对10位资深本体工程师开展了质性分析，结果显示概念图（concept diagrams）能够为工程师提供额外的调试支持，且可提升工程师对自身修复结果的信心。但这类额外支持并非普适性的：当涉及特定的描述逻辑公理（description logic axiom）组合时，使用概念图所带来的推理优势会被削弱。该项研究于2016年秋季开展。