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Geospatial domain is characterised by vagueness, especially in the semantic disambiguation of the concepts in the domain, which makes defining universally accepted geo- ontology an onerous task. This is compounded by the lack of appropriate methods and techniques where the individual semantic conceptualisations can be captured and compared to each other. With multiple user conceptualisations, efforts towards a reliable Geospatial Semantic Web, therefore, require personalisation where user diversity can be incorporated. In this paper, a formal approach for detecting mismatches between a user’s and an expert’s conceptual model is outlined. The formalisation is used as the basis to develop algorithms to compare models defined in OWL. The algorithms are illustrated in a geographical domain using concepts from the SPACE ontology, and are evaluated by comparing test cases of possible user misconceptions. The work presented in this paper is part of our ongoing research on applying commonsense reasoning to elicit and maintain models that represent users’ conceptualisations. Such user models will enable taking into account the users’ perspective of the real world and will empower personalisation algorithms for the Semantic Web.
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Agarwal, P., Huang, Y., Dimitrova, V. (2005). Formal Approach to Reconciliation of Individual Ontologies for Personalisation of Geospatial Semantic Web. In: Rodríguez, M.A., Cruz, I., Levashkin, S., Egenhofer, M.J. (eds) GeoSpatial Semantics. GeoS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3799. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11586180_14
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