Corpus-based terminological evaluation of ontologies
Titel:
Corpus-based terminological evaluation of ontologies
Auteur:
Rospocher, Marco Tonelli, Sara Serafini, Luciano Pianta, Emanuele
Verschenen in:
Applied ontology
Paginering:
Jaargang 7 (2012) nr. 4 pagina's 429-448
Jaar:
2012-10-17
Inhoud:
We present a novel system for corpus-based terminological evaluation of ontologies. Starting from the assumption that a domain of interest can be represented through a corpus of text documents, we first extract a list of domain-specific key-concepts from the corpus, rank them by relevance, and then apply various evaluation metrics to assess the terminological coverage of a domain ontology with respect to the list of key-concepts. Among the advantages of the proposed approach, we remark that the framework is highly automatizable, requiring little human intervention. The evaluation framework is made available online through a collaborative wiki-based system, which can be accessed by different users, from domain experts to knowledge engineers. We performed a comprehensive experimental analysis of our approach, showing that the proposed ontology metrics allow for assessing the terminological coverage of an ontology with respect to a given domain, and that our framework can be effectively applied to many evaluation-related scenarios.