本体是知识共享的重要工具,也是语义Web的支柱。本体的使用是以保证其质量为前提。本体评估为本体构建的质量及本体的选择重用提供了技术支持。分析了本体评估的必要性;对本体评估的现状进行综述,主要包括归纳总结了本体评估的方法及本体评估的基本思路,介绍了本体评估的指标体系,比较分析了本体评估工具;最后提出本体评估存在的问题和进一步研究方向。
Ontology is an important tool for knowledge sharing, and it is also the pillars of the semantic Web. The use of on- tology is carried out in the premise of ensuring its quality. Ontology evaluation provides technical support for the quality of the ontology construction and reuse. Firstly, this paper analyzed the necessity of the ontology evaluation, and then, it surveyed the state of the art of ontology evaluation, including the evaluation methods are summarized, reviewed the metrics system of ontolo- gy evaluation and analyzed and compared the evaluation tools. Finally, it highlighted the open research issues and future re- search directions.