Gold standard based ontology evaluation using instance assignment

An ontology is an explicit formal conceptualization of some domain of interest. Ontology evaluation is the problem of assessing a given ontology from the point of view of a particular criterion or application, typically in order to determine which of several ontologies would best suit a particular purpose. This paper proposes an ontology evaluation approach based on comparing an ontology to a gold standard ontology, assuming that both ontologies are constructed over the same set of instances.