Conceptualizing Crop Life Cycle Events to Create a User Centered Ontology for Farmers

  • Anusha Indika Walisadeera
  • Athula Ginige
  • Gihan N. Wikramanayake
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 8583)

Abstract

People need contextualized information and knowledge to make better decisions. In case of farmers, the information that they require is available through agricultural websites, agriculture department leaflets and mass media. However, available information and knowledge are general, incomplete, heterogeneous, and unstructured. Since the farmers need the information and knowledge within their own context and need to represent information in complete and structured manner we developed a farmer centered ontology in the domain of agriculture. Because of the data complexity of the relationships among various concepts, to attenuate the incompleteness of the data, and also to add semantics and background knowledge about the domain we have selected a logic based ontological approach to create our knowledge repository. In this study, we have investigated how to model the actual representation of the domain and its challenges. The internal evaluation has been done to test the usefulness of the ontology during the design process. We have developed the online knowledge base that can be queried based on the farmer context.

Keywords

agricultural information/knowledge contextualized information knowledge representation ontology modeling knowledge base development ontology evaluation 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Anusha Indika Walisadeera
    • 1
    • 2
  • Athula Ginige
    • 1
  • Gihan N. Wikramanayake
    • 2
  1. 1.School of Computing, Engineering & MathematicsUniversity of Western SydneyPenrithAustralia
  2. 2.University of Colombo School of ComputingColomboSri Lanka

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