D. 1.6. 1 ontology evaluation

This report presents an overview of topics dealing with the evaluation of ontologies. Ontology evaluation is the problem of assessing the quality of a given ontology, either to aid in the selection of an ontology for the needs of a particular task or organization, or to evaluate or guide an ontology construction effort (either manual or partially/fully automated). An ontology is commonly evaluated by comparing it to a “golden standard”, or by testing how well it fits a domain-specific corpus of documents, or by using it in an application and evaluating the output of the application, or by using some other set of criteria. We present a software component for evaluating an ontology by comparing it to a golden standard. Both ontologies involved in the evaluation (the golden standard one and the one under evaluation) are assumed to be trees of concepts built on the same set of instances, but with different arrangement of instances …