Topic-Specific Trust and Open Rating Systems: An Approach for Ontology Evaluation.

Abstract

To achieve better interoperability among intelligent applications, and to relieve knowledge engineers from the burden of developing ontologies from scratch, it is critical to reuse ontologies. However, there are two main reasons why the reuse of ontologies is rare: (1) current ontology repositories allow only simple keyword-based search facilities, and (2) even when a user finds an ontology, the information about the ontology quality and (re)usability is not available.