Al-Tawil, M. and Dimitrova, V. and Thakker, D. and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2017) Evaluating knowledge anchors in data graphs against Basic Level Objects. In: Cabot, J. and de Virgilio, R. and Torlone, R. (eds.) Web Engineering: 17th International Conference, ICWE 2017, Rome, Italy, June 5-8, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10360. Rome, Italy: Springer. ISBN 9783319601311.
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Abstract
The growing number of available data graphs in the form of RDF Linked Data enables the development of semantic exploration applications in many domains. Often, the users are not domain experts and are therefore unaware of the complex knowledge structures represented in the data graphs they interact with. This hinders users’ experience and effectiveness. Our research concerns intelligent support to facilitate the exploration of data graphs by users who are not domain experts. We propose a new navigation support approach underpinned by the subsumption theory of meaningful learning, which postulates that new concepts are grasped by starting from familiar concepts which serve as knowledge anchors from where links to new knowledge are made. Our earlier work has developed several metrics and the corresponding algorithms for identifying knowledge anchors in data graphs. In this paper, we assess the performance of these algorithms by considering the user perspective and application context. The paper address the challenge of aligning basic level objects that represent familiar concepts in human cognitive structures with automatically derived knowledge anchors in data graphs. We present a systematic approach that adapts experimental methods from Cognitive Science to derive basic level objects underpinned by a data graph. This is used to evaluate knowledge anchors in data graphs in two application domains - semantic browsing (Music) and semantic search (Careers). The evaluation validates the algorithms, which enables their adoption over different domains and application contexts.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Birkbeck Knowledge Lab, Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Alex Poulovassilis |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2017 14:39 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 12:41 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18599 |
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