Facilitating Ontology Development with Continuous Evaluation

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lavbič, Dejan | Krisper, Marjan

Affiliations: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Laboratory for Data Technology, Tržaška 25, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Abstract: In this paper we propose facilitating ontology development by constant evaluation of steps in the process of ontology development. Existing methodologies for ontology development are complex and they require technical knowledge that business users and developers don't poses. By introducing ontology completeness indicator developer is guided throughout the development process and constantly aided by recommendations to progress to next step and improve the quality of ontology. In evaluating the ontology, several aspects are considered; from description, partition, consistency, redundancy and to anomaly. The applicability of the approach was demonstrated on Financial Instruments and Trading Strategies (FITS) ontology with comparison to other approaches.

Keywords: ontology development methodology, ontology evaluation, ontology completeness, rapid ontology development, semantic web

Journal: Informatica, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 533-552, 2010