Domain

OWL file

link to domain ontology

Authors

Hans-Ulrich Krieger, Rifca Peters

Short description of ontology

In this ontology, concepts are described that are related to the PAL domain, without any particular epistemological background. It describes the characteristics of diabetes, the PAL system, the users and locations. In addition, information necessary for specific dialogue modelling in the project has been put into this ontology. These classes and properties constitute the information state of the dialogue components.
Related work

Ontology design

Ontology development

The ontology is developed in an ad-hoc, iterative manner. The ontology was created based on the domain knowledge of diabetes mellitus type 1, the PAL system and the users. During the development of the PAL system, the ontology was elaborated on this domain based on the developers' needs.

Ontology structure

The ontology consists of domain-related classes, properties and relations. The classes could be subs of the main class "PALDomain" (e.g. actor, activity, food, ..) or a sub of another class (e.g. 'pen' and 'pump' are subs of 'device'). This is implemented in an intuitive and practical manner.

Evaluation and results

This ontology was implemented and used in the PAL user experiments. For PAL, it contains all domain knowledge that is required for the PAL system to function as desired.