TY - GEN
T1 - Rating the naturalness of ontology taxonomies
AU - An, Yoo Jung
AU - Huang, Kuo Chuan
AU - Geller, James
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - The quality of ontologies (QoO) is increasingly becoming a research issue on the Semantic Web. Ontology users may have difficulties locating the proper concepts in large ontologies, due to low quality. To quantify these problems, we use the notion of naturalness. In this paper we evaluate several existing important ontologies (WordNet, UMLS, etc.) to get numeric measures of naturalness. We concentrate on the question to what degree concept pairs connected by IS-A relationships are natural and therefore comprehensible to users.
AB - The quality of ontologies (QoO) is increasingly becoming a research issue on the Semantic Web. Ontology users may have difficulties locating the proper concepts in large ontologies, due to low quality. To quantify these problems, we use the notion of naturalness. In this paper we evaluate several existing important ontologies (WordNet, UMLS, etc.) to get numeric measures of naturalness. We concentrate on the question to what degree concept pairs connected by IS-A relationships are natural and therefore comprehensible to users.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:37349076554
SN - 1577353196
SN - 9781577353195
T3 - Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007
SP - 176
EP - 177
BT - Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007
T2 - 20th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007
Y2 - 7 May 2007 through 9 May 2007
ER -