Development of a Conceptual Map Generation Tool for Exploring Ontologies

Background and our research goal Background ■Ontology: It is important that the ontology captures the essential conceptual structure of the target world as generally as possible. ■Domain experts often want to understand the target world from the domain-specific viewpoints in which they are interested. In many cases their interests are different, even if they are experts in the same domain. Ontologies are sometimes regarded as verbose and divergent descriptions by domain experts. Visualizations of extracted concepts Extractions of concepts depending on the viewpoints Extractions of concepts form ontology ■How to extract concepts from an ontology depending on the viewpoints that the users specify. Visualizations of extracted concepts ■How to visualize extracted concepts in a user-friendly form.