FromWeb Data to Visualization via Ontology Mapping
| dc.contributor.author | Gilson, Owen | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Silva, Nuno | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Grant, Phil W. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Chen, Min | en_US |
| dc.contributor.editor | A. Vilanova, A. Telea, G. Scheuermann, and T. Moeller | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-21T18:45:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-02-21T18:45:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In this paper, we propose a novel approach for automatic generation of visualizations from domain-specific data available on the web. We describe a general system pipeline that combines ontology mapping and probabilistic reasoning techniques. With this approach, a web page is first mapped to a Domain Ontology, which stores the semantics of a specific subject domain (e.g., music charts). The Domain Ontology is then mapped to one or more Visual Representation Ontologies, each of which captures the semantics of a visualization style (e.g., tree maps). To enable the mapping between these two ontologies, we establish a Semantic Bridging Ontology, which specifies the appropriateness of each semantic bridge. Finally each Visual Representation Ontology is mapped to a visualization using an external visualization toolkit. Using this approach, we have developed a prototype software tool, SemViz, as a realisation of this approach. By interfacing its Visual Representation Ontologies with public domain software such as ILOG Discovery and Prefuse, SemViz is able to generate appropriate visualizations automatically from a large collection of popular web pages for music charts without prior knowledge of these web pages. | en_US |
| dc.description.number | 3 | en_US |
| dc.description.seriesinformation | Computer Graphics Forum | en_US |
| dc.description.volume | 27 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1467-8659 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2008.01230.x | en_US |
| dc.publisher | The Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | en_US |
| dc.title | FromWeb Data to Visualization via Ontology Mapping | en_US |