A semiotic metrics suite for assessing the quality of ontologies

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A suite of metrics is proposed to assess the quality of an ontology. Drawing upon semiotic theory, the metrics assess the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and social aspects of ontology quality. We operationalize the metrics and implement them in a prototype tool called the Ontology Auditor. An initial validation of the Ontology Auditor on the DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) library of domain ontologies indicates that the metrics are feasible and highlights the wide variation in quality among ontologies in the library. The contribution of the research is to provide a theory-based framework that developers can use to develop high quality ontologies and that applications can use to choose appropriate ontologies for a given task.

论文关键词:Ontology,Quality metric,Semiotic theory,Ontology auditor

论文评审过程:Received 4 November 2004, Accepted 4 November 2004, Available online 23 December 2004.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.datak.2004.11.010