Toward Ontology-Based Frameworks for Knowledge-Acquisition Tools. Puerta, A. R, Neches, R., Eriksson, H., Szekely, P., Luo, P., & Musen, M. A In In Proceedings of the Eigth KnowledgeAcquisition Workshop for Knowledge-Based Systems, 1994.
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One of the strongest limitations of knowledge-acquisition metatools—tools that automate the development of knowledge-acquisition tools—is that the interface-design knowledge employed by such metatools to produce domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tools is not explicit and cannot be used by other metatools. Therefore, the usefulness of a metatool is restricted to its own implementation environment. A possible solution to this problem is the definition of a shareable ontology of knowledge-acquisition tools that represents explicitly the relevant knowledge of tool design and development. We take the position that the design of knowledge-acquisition tools is similar to the design of user interfaces, and that an ontology of knowledge-acquisition tools is a special case of an interface ontology. We propose that a shareable interface ontology can be defined by analyzing interface ontologies used in model-based user-interface development systems, and by resolving differences and conflicts among the ontologies—a process called model alignment. We present the initial results of a model alignment for the interface ontologies of two user-interface development systems: SHELTER and Mecano. We also show how the resulting shareable interface ontology underpins a framework in which each system can be applied to different parts of the process of generating a single, domain-specific knowledge-acquisition tool, thus creating a generation of metatools useful across multiple implementation environments.

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