Authors:
Marzieh Talebpour
;
Martin Sykora
and
Tom Jackson
Affiliation:
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Ontology Evaluation, Social Quality Metrics, Ontology Reuse.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Finding a “good” or the “right” ontology for reuse is an ongoing challenge in the field of ontology engineering, where the main aim is to share and reuse existing semantics. This paper reports on a qualitative study with interviews of ontologists and knowledge engineers in different domains, ranging from biomedical field to manufacturing industry, and investigates the challenges they face while searching, evaluating, and selecting an ontology for reuse. Analysis of the interviews reveals diverse sets of quality metrics that are used when evaluating the quality of an ontology. While some of the metrics have already been mentioned in the literature, the findings from our study identify new sets of quality metrics such as community and social related metrics. We believe that this work represents a noteworthy contribution to the field of ontology engineering, with the hope that the research community can further draw on these initial findings in developing relevant quality metrics and on
tology search and selection.
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