OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User

García-Ramos, S. and Otero-Quintana, A. and Fernández-López, M. (2009). OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User. In: "OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User". Springer-Verlag.

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Title: OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User
Author/s:
  • García-Ramos, S.
  • Otero-Quintana, A.
  • Fernández-López, M.
Item Type: Book Section
Title of Book: OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User
Date: 2009
Subjects:
Freetext Keywords: oeg
Faculty: Facultad de Informática (UPM)
Department: Inteligencia Artificial
UPM's Research Group: Ontology Engineering Group – OEG
Creative Commons Licenses: None

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Abstract

The ontology evaluation utilities that are currently available allow the user to check the internal consistency of an ontology, its syntactical correctness and, at most, the fulfillment of some philosophical constraints related to rigidity or identity. However, there is no contribution in the ontology evaluation field that proposes a method to dynamically test ontologies with regard to their functional specification. Thus, no software for this task has been built until now. This paper presents a tool, OntologyTest, designed to overcome this drawback. The tool allows the user to define a set of tests to check the ontology’s functional requirements, to execute them, and to inspect the results of the execution. The whole set of tests (or a particular test) can be executed at any time; thus it simplifies the testing of ontology both during its development and during its evolution.

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Item ID: 5453
DC Identifier: https://oa.upm.es/5453/
OAI Identifier: oai:oa.upm.es:5453
Deposited by: Dr Oscar Corcho
Deposited on: 28 Mar 2011 14:13
Last Modified: 20 Apr 2016 14:15
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