OntoQue: Questions for and from Ontologies

2018-present

Funding: various


Introduction and objectives - participants - outputs

Overview

Introduction and background

Competency questions, and questions more generally, have a comparatively long history in relation to ontologies, dating back to the mid-1990s. They can be used in the development of ontologies, educational and trivia quiz questions can be generated from ontologies, and they have been shown to improve question answering systems.
Research and application development has shown over the years that competency questions (CQs) can be useful for ontology development tasks as diverse as scoping, validation, verification, and ontology reuse selection. It is not clear, however which CQs are needed, which ones to use when for what in the design process, how to create good CQs, what good CQs look like, and how they affect ontology development, among others. Further, in ontology's use, such as for educational question generation, questions have arisen concerning what sort of questions can be generated from an ontology, and how, whether they're any better than LLM-generated questions, and to what extent (if at all) the structure of the ontology facilitates or limits question generation.

Aim

The main aim of the project is to increase understanding of the interactions between questions and ontologies such that it results in concrete improvements in ontology design and ontology-driven information systems.

Specific objectives

The specific objectives of the project have been evolving over the years; they are, or did include at some point:

Participants, collaborators, and contributors

Over the timspan of the project, collaborators include(d):

Outputs