Title
Assessing the quality of domain ontologies: Metrics and an automated ranking system.
Abstract
The ability of a user to select an appropriate, high-quality domain ontology from a set of available options would be most useful in knowledge engineering and other intelligent applications. This capability, however, requires good quality assessment metrics as well as automated support when there is a large number of ontologies from which to make a selection. This research analyzes existing metrics for domain ontology evaluation and extends them to derive a Layered Ontology Metrics Suite based on semiotic theory. The metrics are implemented in a Domain Ontology Ranking System (DoORS) prototype, the purpose of which is to search an ontology library for specific terms to retrieve candidate domain ontologies and then assess their quality and suitability based upon the suite of metrics. The prototype system is compared to existing approaches to automated ontology quality ranking to illustrate the usefulness of the research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.datak.2018.02.001
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Domain ontology,Interoperability,Metrics,Ontology assessment,Ontology evaluation,Ranking,Ontology,Semiotics,Semiotic layers,Domain Ontology Ranking System
Ontology (information science),Ontology,Suite,Ranking,Information retrieval,Computer science,Knowledge engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
115
1
0169-023X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
42
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Melinda McDaniel121.73
Veda C. Storey22796542.19
Vijayan Sugumaran397592.17