Validating Ontologies with OOPS

Ontology quality can be affected by the difficulties involved in ontology modelling which may imply the appearance of anomalies in ontologies. This situation leads to the need of validating ontologies, that is, assessing their quality and correctness. Ontology validation is a key activity in differe...

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Published inKnowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management pp. 267 - 281
Main Authors Poveda-Villalón, María, Suárez-Figueroa, Mari Carmen, Gómez-Pérez, Asunción
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2012
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
ontology
ontology evaluation
ontology validation
pitfalls
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Summary:Ontology quality can be affected by the difficulties involved in ontology modelling which may imply the appearance of anomalies in ontologies. This situation leads to the need of validating ontologies, that is, assessing their quality and correctness. Ontology validation is a key activity in different ontology engineering scenarios such as development and selection. This paper contributes to the ontology validation activity by proposing a web-based tool, called OOPS!, independent of any ontology development environment, for detecting anomalies in ontologies. This tool will help developers to improve ontology quality by automatically detecting potential errors.
ISBN:3642338755
9783642338755
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-33876-2_24