AN ONTOLOGY ANALYSIS TOOL FOR CONSUMER

 
 
 
 

AN ONTOLOGY ANALYSIS TOOL FOR CONSUMER

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Title: AN ONTOLOGY ANALYSIS TOOL FOR CONSUMER
Author: Pal, Anindita
Description: Ontologies capture domain knowledge in a generic way and provide a commonly agreed understanding, and as such, are becoming the backbone of the Semantic Web. They are reused, shared, and applied across applications and groups. Various approaches to evaluating the quality of an ontology have been proposed and depend on the purpose of evaluation. Some evaluate ontologies for correctness, completeness and redundancy so that applications do not use poorly or incorrectly formulated ontologies. Others have developed methodologies to ensure the consistency and completeness of an ontology throughout its entire lifetime through the development and maintenance process. Recent proposals, however, suggest the importance of tools to help analyze ontologies for re-use by consumers. The objective of the thesis is the development of a consumer ontological analysis tool that can be used on any ontology, intensional or extensional, importable into Protégé, an ontology editor. This analysis tool is validated using four different ontologies, two well-known ontologies: WordNet and UMLS and two Product and Service Categorization Standards ontologies: UNSPSC and eCl@ss. A framework for ontology visualization is established and used to display selected results of the ontology analysis. This framework serves as the foundation for future research in ontology visualization.
Permanent Link: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1146068536
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/18572
Date: 2006

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