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Threshold Determination and Engaging Materials Scientists in Ontology Design

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Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2015)

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This paper reports on research exploring a threshold for engaging scientists in semantic ontology development. The domain application, nanocrystalline metals, was pursued using a multi-method approach involving algorithm comparison, semantic concept/term evaluation, and term sorting. Algorithms from four open source term extraction applications (RAKE, Tagger, Kea, and Maui) were applied to a test corpus of preprint abstracts from the arXiv repository. Materials scientists identified 92 terms for ontology inclusion from a combined set of 228 unique terms, and the term sorting activity resulted in 9 top nodes. The combined methods were successful in engaging domain scientists in ontology design, and give a threshold capacity measure (threshold acceptability) to aid future work. This paper presents the research background and motivation, reviews the methods and procedures, and summarizes the initial results. A discussion explores term sorting approaches and mechanisms for determining thresholds for engaging scientist in semantically-driven ontology design and the concept of ontological empowerment.

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  1. Metadata Research Center (MRC), College of Computing & Informatics (CCI), Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Jane Greenberg, Yue Zhang & Adrian Ogletree

  2. Computational Materials Science and Design (CMSD), Materials Science and Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Garritt J. Tucker & Daniel Foley

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Greenberg, J., Zhang, Y., Ogletree, A., Tucker, G.J., Foley, D. (2015). Threshold Determination and Engaging Materials Scientists in Ontology Design. In: Garoufallou, E., Hartley, R., Gaitanou, P. (eds) Metadata and Semantics Research. MTSR 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24129-6_4

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