A method of ontology evaluation based on coverage, cohesion and coupling

Abstract

A novel method is proposed to evaluate the quality of ontology. This paper presents a method including three criteria, such as coverage, cohesion and coupling, to evaluate ontology by comparing with corpus, designs some experiments for users adjust the parameters of each criterion depending on their preference. This paper combined the user-based method with corpus-based method to propose a set of methods to evaluate construction of ontology, and it can be proved more accurate and effective in experiments.