TY - JOUR
T1 - Analysis of ontology quality dimensions, criteria and metrics
AU - Wilson, R. S. I.
AU - Goonetillake, J. S.
AU - Indika, W. A.
AU - Ginige, Athula
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Ontology quality assessment needs to be performed across the ontology development life cycle to ensure that the ontology being modeled meets the intended purpose. To this end, a set of quality criteria and metrics provides a basis to assess the quality with respect to the quality requirements. However, the existing criteria and metrics defined in the literature so far are messy and vague. Thus, it is difficult to determine what set of criteria and measures would be applicable to assess the quality of an ontology for the intended purpose. Moreover, there are no well-accepted methodologies for ontology quality assessment as the way it is in the software engineering discipline. Therefore, a comprehensive review was performed to identify the existing contribution on ontology quality criteria and metrics. As a result, it was identified that the existing criteria can be classified under five dimensions namely syntactic, structural, semantic, pragmatic, and social. Moreover, a matrix with ontology levels, approaches, and criteria/metrics was presented to guide the researchers when they perform a quality assessment.
AB - Ontology quality assessment needs to be performed across the ontology development life cycle to ensure that the ontology being modeled meets the intended purpose. To this end, a set of quality criteria and metrics provides a basis to assess the quality with respect to the quality requirements. However, the existing criteria and metrics defined in the literature so far are messy and vague. Thus, it is difficult to determine what set of criteria and measures would be applicable to assess the quality of an ontology for the intended purpose. Moreover, there are no well-accepted methodologies for ontology quality assessment as the way it is in the software engineering discipline. Therefore, a comprehensive review was performed to identify the existing contribution on ontology quality criteria and metrics. As a result, it was identified that the existing criteria can be classified under five dimensions namely syntactic, structural, semantic, pragmatic, and social. Moreover, a matrix with ontology levels, approaches, and criteria/metrics was presented to guide the researchers when they perform a quality assessment.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:67182
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-86970-0_23
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-86970-0_23
M3 - Article
SN - 0302-9743
SP - 320
EP - 337
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ER -