Abstract

RAMOS, Esmeralda; NUNEZ, Haydemar  and  CASANAS, Roberto. Schemes to evaluate singular ontologies for a knowledge domain. Enlace [online]. 2009, vol.6, n.1, pp.57-71. ISSN 1690-7515.

This paper proposes a scheme for the evaluation of ontologies in modeled state. These ontologies are unique in a knowledge domain. In each phase of the ontology development life cycle, we evaluate the following approaches: the right use of the codification language, the accuracy of the taxonomic structure, the meaning of the terms and the concepts represented and finally the adjustment of the request specified at the beginning of our development. To test the feasibility of our evaluation scheme, we describe its applicability during the development of ontology for the human semen analysis domain. As results of this evaluation, we were able to identify not only some mistakes and syntactic inconsistencies, but also several vocabulary omissions, as well as redundancy and inconsistencies in some classes and instances. The suitable identification and immediate correction of this mistakes, allowed obtaining a first quality ontological development for this domain. The results achieved validate our evaluation scheme as an alternative to test the quality of ontologies in unprecedented modeled state in any domain, without comparison against any another ontologies.

Keywords : Ontologies; Ontology Evaluation; Domain Ontologies.