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Using ontologies for IR is one of the key issues for indexing. It is not always easy to decide which ontology to use for the corpus to index. We propose to define measures reflecting the adequacy of an ontology to a corpus. The goal of these measures is to evaluate if an ontology suits a corpus, but also to compare the adequacy of two or more ontologies to the same corpus. The measures are based on a lexical and a conceptual analysis of the corpus and the ontology. We have carried out a first validation of these measures on a corpus and samples of the ontologies. The results are encouraging.
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Hernandez, N., Mothe, J. (2004). An Approach to Evaluate Existing Ontologies for Indexing a Document Corpus. In: Bussler, C., Fensel, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3192. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30106-6_2
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