×

An ontology analysis tool. (English) Zbl 1160.68576

Summary: The success of the Semantic Web has been linked with the use of ontologies on the Semantic Web. Given the important role of ontologies on the Semantic Web, the need for domain ontology development and management are becoming more and more important to most kinds of knowledge-driven applications. Numerous proposed approaches to evaluating an ontology depend on the purpose of evaluation. Some tools evaluate ontologies for correctness, completeness and redundancy so that applications do not use poorly or incorrectly formulated ontologies; others have developed methodologies to ensure the consistency and completeness of an ontology throughout its entire lifetime. Recent proposals by researchers also suggest the importance of tools to help analyze ontologies for re-use by consumers. The scarcity of theoretically and empirically validated measures for consumer analysis of ontologies has motivated our research to develop an ontological analysis tool that can be used on both intensional and extensional ontologies. The suite of metrics that are being developed and implemented as a plug-in to the Protégé, ontology editor experimental results on two existing ontologies, WordNet and UMLS and our plans to continue validation of this tool on other ontologies such as UNSPSC and eCl@ss from the e-commerce domain are discussed.

MSC:

68T30 Knowledge representation
93A13 Hierarchical systems
68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence

Software:

WebODE; Protege
PDFBibTeX XMLCite
Full Text: DOI

References:

[1] Alani, H. and Brewster, C. Ontology ranking based on the analysis of Concept structures. In: Proceedings of the International conference on knowledge capture. Alberta, Canada
[2] Arpírez, J.C., Corcho, O., Fernandez-Lopez, M. and Gomez-Perez, A. WebODE: a scalable workbench for ontological engineering. In: Proceedings of the first international conference on knowledge capture (K-CAP) BC. Canada
[3] Chaudhri V.K., Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1998)
[4] Chidamber S., IEEE Trans. Software Eng 20 pp 263– (1994) · Zbl 05113989 · doi:10.1109/32.295895
[5] Cross V., Proceedings of the fourteenth IEEE conference on fuzzy systems pp 114– (2005) · doi:10.1109/FUZZY.2005.1452378
[6] Fernando-Lopez M., Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Workshop on Ontologies and Problem-Solving Methods pp 4.1– (1999)
[7] Gómez-Pérez A., International Journal of Intelligent Systems 16 pp 391– (2001) · Zbl 0990.68144 · doi:10.1002/1098-111X(200103)16:3<391::AID-INT1014>3.0.CO;2-2
[8] Gómez-Pérez A., IEEE Intelligent Systems 19 pp 74– (2004)
[9] Gómez-Pérez A., IEEE Intelligent Systems and Their Applications 17 pp 57– (2002) · Zbl 05094260 · doi:10.1109/5254.988453
[10] Gruber T.R., Knowledge Acquisition 5 pp 199– (1993) · doi:10.1006/knac.1993.1008
[11] Guarino N., IEEE Intelligent Systems 19 pp 74– (2004)
[12] Guarino N., Communications of the ACM 45 pp 61– (2002) · Zbl 05393643 · doi:10.1145/567498.567500
[13] Hepp M., Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service pp 740– (2005) · doi:10.1109/EEE.2005.54
[14] Humphreys B.L., Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 81 pp 170– (1993)
[15] Lethbridge T.C., International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 8 pp 161– (1998) · doi:10.1142/S021819409800011X
[16] Lindland O.J., IEEE Software 11 pp 42– (1994) · Zbl 05101218 · doi:10.1109/52.268955
[17] Lozano-Tello A., Journal of Database Management 15 pp 1– (2004) · doi:10.4018/jdm.2004040101
[18] McGuinness D.L., Spinning the Semantic Web: Bringing the World Wide Web to its Full Potential pp 171– (2003)
[19] Miller G., Communications of the ACM 38 pp 39– (1995) · doi:10.1145/219717.219748
[20] Noy N.F., IEEE Intelligent Systems 19 pp 74– (2004)
[21] Noy N.F., AI Magazine 18 pp 53– (1997)
[22] Poulin J.S., Measuring Software Reuse: Principles, practices, and economic models (1997)
[23] Saaty T., European Journal of Operational Research 48 pp 9– (1990) · Zbl 0707.90002 · doi:10.1016/0377-2217(90)90057-I
[24] Seco N., Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI’2004 pp 1089– (2004)
[25] Uschold M., Knowledge Engineering Review 11 pp 93– (1996) · Zbl 0875.68349 · doi:10.1017/S0269888900007797
[26] van Rees R., Construction informatics digital library (2003)
[27] Whitmire S., Object Oriented Design Measurement (1997)
[28] Yao H., Journal of Computer Science 1 pp 107– (2005) · Zbl 05328032 · doi:10.3844/jcssp.2005.107.113
[29] Zuse H., Software Complexity: Measures and Methods (1990) · Zbl 0731.68003
This reference list is based on information provided by the publisher or from digital mathematics libraries. Its items are heuristically matched to zbMATH identifiers and may contain data conversion errors. In some cases that data have been complemented/enhanced by data from zbMATH Open. This attempts to reflect the references listed in the original paper as accurately as possible without claiming completeness or a perfect matching.