Argumentation-based ontology engineering

The DILIGENT argumentation framework helps to capture the design deliberations in ontology-engineering and it makes the consensus building task more efficient and provide detailed guidance for the non experts. The argumentation framework provides the detailed ontology-engineering approach that is clearly supporting direct interaction between ontology engineers and domain experts. The DILIGENT argumentation framework consists of an argumentation process and a formal model and is supported a wiki-support toll named coefficientMakna. Ontology-engineering usually starts by analyzing the domain and application requirements in which the developers agree on the requirements and discuss the model specific domain information as classes, instances, attribute, or properties to decide the adequate granularity level for the model and on conversations for labeling and documentation. The knowledge is then implemented in a formal language such as Semantic Web ontology language OWL DL.