OntoPair: Towards a Collaborative Game for Building OWL-Based Ontologies

Collective Intelligence takes advantage of collaboration, competition and integration. It often uses mixed groups of humans and computers to research in new unexplored ways. Ontologies, which are the main building block of the Semantic Web, are usually prepared by domain experts. We introduce a novel approach, which employs Collective Intelligence, towards building simple domain ontologies through a game called OntoPair, an entertaining web-based game that is able to build simple OWL-based ontologies based on collected information from players. The game collects properties and common-sense facts regarding an object by means of some fixed templates and translates them into OWL representation by aid of a mediator/mapper and builds simple domain ontologies after refinement in several iterations. We define the game and preform a small experiment that proves our idea.