Abstract
Ontologies are often used in biomedical and health domains to provide a concise and consistent means of attributing meaning to medical terminology. Whilst they are novices in terms of ontology engineering, the evaluation of an ontology by domain specialists provides an opportunity to enhance its objectivity, accuracy and coverage of the domain itself. This paper provides an evaluation of the viability of using ontology engineering novices to evaluate and enrich an ontology that can be used for personalised diabetic patient education. We describe a methodology for engaging healthcare and information technology specialists with a range of ontology engineering tasks. We used 87.8% of the data collected to validate the accuracy of our ontological model. The contributions also enabled a 16% increase in the class size and an 18% increase in object properties. Furthermore, we propose that ontology engineering novices can make valuable contributions to ontology development. Application specific evaluation of the ontology using a semantic-web based architecture is also discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-16 |
Journal | Informatics for Health and Social Care |
Volume | online |
Early online date | 16 Oct 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published online - 16 Oct 2017 |
Keywords
- Ontology
- personalisation
- diabetes
- semantics
- OWL
- patient education
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Raymond Bond
- School of Computing - Professor of Human Computer Systems
- Faculty Of Computing, Eng. & Built Env. - Full Professor
- Computer Science and Informatics Research
Person: Academic
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Christopher Nugent
- School of Computing - Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Faculty Of Computing, Eng. & Built Env. - Full Professor
- Computer Science and Informatics Research
Person: Academic