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This paper reports an effort to construct a grand-scale Korean thesaurus that can be used for enhancing retrieval performance in various fields. This thesaurus is currently being used for indexing and retrieving purpose and new terms are being added to it. As the new demands on retrieval performance increase in Korea, developing a grand-scale ontology appears to be necessary so a project is undertaken to transfer the current thesaurus into an ontology system. The paper describes how the thesaurus is constructed and prepared to be the base for an ontology system.

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In this study it is intended to develop the ontology which can express the relation between objects with emphasis on the structural representation of semantics. Its interoperability with other kinds of previous ontology and metadata was also considered so that the developed ontology may be applicable to the real situation. The ABC Ontology can get extended into another field where the application of the concept of event is possible, for ABC Ontology provides the fundamental framework on the axis of event. In this study it is Music where ABC Ontology can be applied properly, which results in creating Music Ontology. Music Ontology provides the infrastructure of knowledge for reasoning of potential meaning as well as the simple semantic connection of terms. The extended model of ABC Ontology has been developed by applying Music Ontology, which is the domain ontology and conveys meaning, to ABC Ontology that represents the whole framework. The representation of conceptual relation in ABC Ontology turns into the association of the framework and meaning in the extended model of ABC Ontology, with reasoning rules which are typical in ontology. Also, interoperability of the extended model of ABC Ontology is examined in consideration of co-operating with metadata different from those in it. 핵심되는 말: ABC 온톨로지, 이벤트, 메타데이터 상호운용성, 음악 온톨로지, 온톨로지 통합, OWL

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Emerging Web 2.0 services such as Twitter, Blogs, and Wikis alongside the poorly- structured and immeasurable growth of information requires an enhanced information organization approach. Ontology has received much attention over the last 10 years as an emerging approach for enhancing information organization. However, there is little penetration into current systems. The purpose of this study is to propose ontology implementation and methodology. To achieve the goal of this study, limitations of traditional information organization approaches are addressed and emerging information organization approaches are presented. Two ontology data models, RDF/OW and Topic Maps, are compared and then ontology development processes and methodology with topic maps based medical information retrieval system are addressed. The comparison of two data models allows users to choose the right model for ontology development.

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최근 효과적인 정보검색을 제공하기 위해 시맨틱 웹을 비롯한 다양한 검색기법들을 사용하고 있다. 이중에서 효과적인 방법은 온톨로지를 이용한 검색기술을 적용하는 것이라 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 국가과학기술지식정보서비스(NTIS)에서 구축한 국가R&D정보를 분석하여 온톨로지를 구축하고, 이용자가 관심있어 하는 주제분야(과제, 인물, 성과, 기관)를 중심으로 온톨로지의 객체관계를 표현하고 정보를 탐색하기 위한 국가R&D지식맵(knowledge map)을 구축하였다. 국가R&D지식맵은 사용자가 선택한 객체를 중심노드로 설정하여, 주제분야를 노드로 표현하고, 객체와 주제분야간의 관계를 분석하여 사용자가 관심 있어 하는 질의를 주제분야의 하위노드로 표현하였다. 사용자가 하위노드의 질의를 선택하면 시스템에서는 선택한 질의를 온톨로지로부터 추론할 수 있는 SPAQL 질의어를 생성하고 추론엔진으로부터 검색결과를 받아 사용자에게 제시하였다.

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To develop an intelligent search engine to help users retrieve information effectively, various methods, such as Semantic Web, have been used, An effective retrieval method of such methods uses ontology technology. In this paper, we built National R&D ontology after analyzing National R&D Information in NTIS and then implemented National R&D Knowledge Map to represent and retrieve information of the relationship between object and subject (project, human information, organization, research result) in R&D Ontology. In the National R&D Knowledge Map, center-node is the object selected by users, node is subject, subject's sub-node is user's favorite query in National R&D ontology after analyzing the relationship between object and subject. When a user selects sub-node, the system displays the results from inference engine after making query by SPARQL in National R&D ontology.

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온톨로지의 평가는 잘 구축된 기존 온톨로지와 비교하는 방법, 활용될 애플리케이션에 적용해보는 방법, 원천데이터와의 적합성․관련성을 판단해보는 방법을 통해 이뤄지고 있다. 이와 같은 방법론은 온톨로지를 통해 얻게 된 결과에 치중되어 온톨로지의 체계, 의미표현, 상호운용성과 같은 내재적인 영역의 평가에 어려움이 있다. 본 연구는 온톨로지 전문가를 통해 온톨로지 품질평가를 위한 항목을 도출하였다. 문헌조사를 통해 온톨로지의 내재적 평가를 위한 범주를 추출하였고, 각 범주에 대한 평가항목을 델파이조사를 통해 전문가들에게 수집한 뒤, 수집된 평가항목을 재검증하였다. 그 결과, 처음 수집된 70개의 평가 항목에서 최종적으로 53개의 평가항목을 선정하였다. 또한 수집된 평가항목을 온톨로지 평가에 활용하여 봄으로써 평가항목의 신뢰도를 측정하였다.

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The focus of traditional evaluations of ontologies is largely performance-based. A comparison of a new ontology with well-established ones, testing of ontologies in different applications, as well as any judgment of an ontology’s appropriateness and relatedness to source data heavily rely on what results that ontology seems to manifest. This study, on the other hand, is an attempt to evaluate the quality of a particular ontology as manifested by its structure, representation, and interoperability. To that end, major categories of quality evaluations were first identified through an extensive survey of literature. Evaluation questions were formulated from these categories using the Delphi method and were validated by ontology experts. The entire process produced a set of 53 evaluation questions, which was then employed to test the quality of a newly-developed smartphone ontology.

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최근 의학정보 분야에서는 임상의 지식관리와 의학정보 검색의 효율화를 위한 수단으로 온톨로지의 개념 모델링을 이용한 의학용어 시스템에 관심이 모아지고 있다. 본 연구는 우리나라의 의학정보 분야에 이러한 시스템의 응용이나 새로운 시스템 개발에 기초적인 자료제공을 목적으로, 정보 모델링과 온톨로지의 이론에 대해 고찰하였고, 외국의 의학정보 분야에서 온톨로지를 이용한 용어 시스템이 개발된 4가지 대표적인 사례를 분석하여 비교하였다. 연구결과 비형식적인 수준의 온톨로지로 파악된 MeSH의 의학용어 표준화와 UMLS의 용어 개념화, 형식적인 수준의 온톨로지인 ON9의 의학 온톨로지 통합의 이론화, 그리고 GALEN의 의학지식의 의미 모델과 형식화로 핵심적 특징을 요약할 수 있었다. 온톨로지의 응용은 목적하는 시스템에 따른 수준적 차별화가 이루어져야 할 것이고, 본 연구의 분석 결과가 참고 될 수 있을 것이다.

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Recent research in the field of medical information systems has paid much attention to an ontology based medical terminology system to support clinical study and effective information search. This study aims to conduct research for further application or construction of ontology systems in Korea. This research reviews the theory of concept modeling and ontology, and analyses 4 cases of conceptual modeling of medical terminologies by ontology. The findings of this study display these specific characteristics in medical ontologies : (1) The standardization of terminology on MeSH. (2) The conceptualization of terminology on UMLS. (1) and (2) are showed as unformal ontologies. (3) The theory of ontology integration in ON9. (4) The reference model of medical knowledge with formalization in GALEN. (3) and (4) are showed as formal ontologies. The application and construction of ontology should be differentiated according to the level of the proposed system, and then this analysis will provide useful information for the researcher and developer of the system.

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Recently, semantic search techniques which are based on information space as consisting of non- ambiguous, non-redundant, formal pieces of ontological knowledge have been developed so that users do exploit large knowledge bases. The purpose of the study is to design more user-friendly and smarter retrieval interface based on ontological analysis, which can provide more precise information by reducing semantic ambiguity or more rich linked information based on well-defined relationships. Therefore, this study, first of all, focuses on ontological analysis on researcher information as selecting descriptive elements, defining classes and properties of descriptive elements, and identifying relationships between the properties and their restriction between relationships. Next, the study designs the prototypical retrieval interface based on ontology-based representation, which supports to semantic searching and browsing regarding researchers as a full-fledged domain. On the proposed retrieval interface, users can search various facts for researcher information such as research outputs or the personal information, or carrier history and browse the social connection of the researchers such as researcher group that is lecturing or researching on the same subject or involving in the same intellectual communication.

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With the purpose of enriching existing catalogues with FRBR, which is the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, in mind, this paper aims to evaluate the impact of bibliographic ontology on the overall system’s performance in the field of literature. In doing this, OCLC’s FictionFinder (http://fictionfinder.oclc.org) was selected and qualitatively evaluated. In this study 40 university seniors evaluated the following three aspects using the ‘transferring thoughts onto paper method’: 1) In which ways is this FRBR-aware bibliographical ontology helpful? 2) Are the things which are initially attempted to be helped being helped? 3) Would users seeking one work in particular also see all other related works? In conclusion, this study revealed that, as Cutter claimed in his 2nd rule of the library, collocations give added-value to the users and overall ontology provides better interface and usefulness. It also revealed that a system’s evaluation with qualitative methodology helped to build full pictures of the system and to grip the information needs of the users when the system is developed. Qualitative evaluations, therefore, could be used as indicators for the evaluation of any information retrieval systems.

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MARC는 목록 데이터를 상세하게 정의할 수 있는 장점이 있지만, 개념요소가 구조화 되어 있지 않고 표현체계가 복잡하기 때문에 단순 계층구조의 의미 어휘 체계를 지원하는 XML DTD나 RDF/S로는 그 구조를 모델화하기가 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 MARC의 데이터 요소를 추상화하여 목록 데이터의 개념 구조를 표현하는 서지 온톨로지를 구축하였으며, 개념간의 논리 관계와 프로퍼티의 카디널리티 및 프로퍼티 값에 대한 논리적 제한을 부가할 수 있는 OWL을 이용하여 MRAC 필드의 복합 구조를 모델링하여 구축한 목록 온톨로지를 구현하였다. 온톨로지 언어를 이용한 MARC 데이터를 기술 방법은 목록 데이터에 대한 메타데이터 구성과 목록의 호환성 문제를 해결할 수 있는 기초적 방안이 되며, 시맨틱 웹 서비스를 기반으로 하는 차세대 문헌 정보서비스 시스템 구현의 토대가 될 것이다.

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Although MARC can define the detail cataloguing data, it has complex structures and frameworks to represent bibliographic information. On account of these idiosyncratic features of MARC, XML DTD or RDF/S that supports simple hierarchy of conceptual vocabularies cannot capture MARC formalism effectively. This study implements bibliographic ontology by means of abstracting conceptual relationships between bibliographic vocabularies of MARC. The bibliographic ontology is formalized with OWL that can represent the logical relations between conceptual elements and specify cardinality and property value restrictions. The bibliographic ontology in this study will provide metadata for cataloguing data and resolve compatibility problems between cataloguing systems. And it can also contribute the development of next generation bibliographic information system using semantic Web services.

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본 연구는 특정 영역 소규모 업무(Small Unit Operation) 수행을 지원하는 태스크 온톨로지 모형 개발에 관한 것이다. 기존 정보관리에서 효과적으로 진화된 지식시스템을 구축하기 위해서는 사전 작업인 온톨로지 개발이 필요하다. 대표적 SUO의 하나인 시민단체를 대상으로 선정하여 시민단체의 조직특성, 기대역할과 부진한 기능, 그리고 업무과정에서 발생되는 정보관리나 활용실태 등을 조사하였다. 그러나 온톨로지 구현의 기초 자료로 삼을 수 있는 시민운동이나 단체들에 대한 분류체계나 시소러스 등이 없는 상황에서 단체 특성 및 관련 업무 그리고 출판물 등의 생산정보나 사이트구성, 활동주제 및 내역 등의 기존 데이터만으로는 지식획득은 부족하다. 따라서 본 연구에서 채택된 모형 개발 방법론은 해당 분야 실무자 및 전문가와의 심도 높은 면담과 관찰이며 이를 통해 현장실무의 업무처리 과정에서 발생하는 지식을 추출하고 정보의 흐름 구조를 파악하여 그를 기반으로 시민단체의 역할 수행을 지원하는 태스크 온톨로지 모형을 구현하였다.

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This paper presents a model of Task-Ontology for small unit operations(SUO) such as non-government organizations. Despite the rapid development and extension of NGOs in domestic area, most has insufficient structural domain resources in existence and underestimates the importance of information management. To improve the citizen's participation and to activate the conjoint actions among the NGOs, which are critical to its social role-playing in global society, the modeling Task-Ontology is ultimately intended to implement the knowledge management system of NGO. In the perspective of ontology competency, not only the analysis of resources in vary, but also in-depth interviews with the NGO's practicing personnels and subject experts, and also the intensive observations of task-processing are required for the knowledge acquisition.