OntView: What you See is What you Meant
Carlos Bobed, Carlota Quintana, Eduardo Mena, Jorge Bobed, Fernando Bobillo

TL;DR
OntView is an intuitive ontology visualization tool that accurately represents inferred knowledge, including GCIs, and offers customizable views to improve understanding of complex ontologies.
Contribution
It introduces OntView, a novel ontology viewer that visualizes inferred knowledge and GCIs, with features for simplified and focused views, enhancing comprehension of large ontologies.
Findings
Effective visualization of inferred knowledge and GCIs.
Supports ontology summarization and dynamic branch management.
Open-source release for community use.
Abstract
In the field of knowledge management and computer science, ontologies provide a structured framework for modeling domain-specific knowledge by defining concepts and their relationships. However, the lack of tools that provide effective visualization is still a significant challenge. While numerous ontology editors and viewers exist, most of them fail to graphically represent ontology structures in a meaningful and non-overwhelming way, limiting users' ability to comprehend dependencies and properties within large ontological frameworks. In this paper, we present OntView, an ontology viewer that is designed to provide users with an intuitive visual representation of ontology concepts and their formal definitions through a user-friendly interface. Building on the use of a DL reasoner, OntView follows a "What you see is what you meant" paradigm, showing the actual inferred knowledge. One…
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TopicsSemantic Web and Ontologies · Data Visualization and Analytics · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
