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In this paper, we study the impact of the human-readable documentation of Web ontologies on the ability of human users to agree on the membership of instances according to a given ontology. We first introduce a model of the problem and then present a user study, in which we measured the impact of documentation features in schema.org on the quality of annotations with n = 73 study participants. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for ontology design in the context of the Semantic Web.
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Zarl, F., Hepp, M., Stolz, A., Gerbino, W. (2017). Ontologies and Human Users: A Systematic Analysis of the Influence of Ontology Documentation on Community Agreement About Type Membership. In: Panetto, H., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems. OTM 2017 Conferences. OTM 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10574. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69459-7_28
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