Redefinition and Statistical Analysis of Measures for Evaluating the Quality of Ontologies

Abstract

OntoQualitas is a framework to evaluate an ontology whose purpose is the interchange of information between different contexts. However, the framework does not propose acceptance thresholds of the measure values. In this paper, measures proposed in this framework are redefined in order to improve their usefulness in assessing the quality of such ontologies. These measures were calculated semi-automatically on a set of ontologies and its results were described by means of a statistical analysis as a first step to the definition of their acceptance thresholds.