Ontology evaluation is a relevant issue in the field of knowledge representation. It aims at
quantifying the quality of ontologies, so that potential users can have an idea of their …

In recent years, ontologies have experienced an enormous development due to their
importance in knowledge-based systems. Because of the discrepancies that may appear …

In the last few years, the Semantic Web gained scientific acceptance as the means of
sharing knowledge in different domains, and the cornerstone of the Semantic Web is …

Abstract As the Semantic Web gains importance for sharing knowledge on the Internet this
has lead to the development and publishing of many ontologies in different domains. When …

Modeling an ontology is a hard and time-consuming task. Although methodologies are
useful for ontologists to create good ontologies, they do not help with the task of evaluating …

This chapter handles assessment of the innermost layer of the Semantic Web cake, ie,
ontology, through a metrics suite called OntoMod. We assess the syntactical composition of …

Ontologies are key to information retrieval, semantic integration of datasets, and semantic
similarity analyses. Evaluating ontologies (especially defining what constitutes a" good" or" …

OntoClean is an approach towards the formal evaluation of taxonomic relations in
ontologies. The application of OntoClean consists of two main steps. First, concepts are …

The evaluation of ontologies is vital for the growth of the Semantic Web. We consider a
number of problems in evaluating a knowledge artifact like an ontology. We propose in this …

Ontologies are widely used nowadays. However, the plethora of ontologies currently
available online, makes it really difficult to identify which ontologies are appropriate for a …