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IWANN 2009: Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living pp 91–98Cite as

OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User

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The ontology evaluation utilities that are currently available allow the user to check the internal consistency of an ontology, its syntactical correctness and, at most, the fulfillment of some philosophical constraints related to rigidity or identity. However, there is no contribution in the ontology evaluation field that proposes a method to dynamically test ontologies with regard to their functional specification. Thus, no software for this task has been built until now. This paper presents a tool, OntologyTest, designed to overcome this drawback. The tool allows the user to define a set of tests to check the ontology’s functional requirements, to execute them, and to inspect the results of the execution. The whole set of tests (or a particular test) can be executed at any time; thus it simplifies the testing of ontology both during its development and during its evolution.

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  1. Universidad San Pablo CEU, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Urbanización Montepríncipe s/n, Boadilla del Monte, 28668, Madrid, Spain

    Sara García-Ramos, Abraham Otero & Mariano Fernández-López

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan

    Sigeru Omatu

  2. Department of Informatics / CCTC, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Miguel P. Rocha

  3. MAmI Research Lab, University of Castilla-La Mancha,, Ciudad Real, Spain

    José Bravo

  4. Department of Informatics, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Florentino Fernández

  5. Grupo de Investigación GICAP, Área de Lenguajes Higher Polytechnic School, Universidad de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Emilio Corchado

  6. Higher Polytechnic School, University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain

    Andrés Bustillo

  7. Department of Informatics, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado

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García-Ramos, S., Otero, A., Fernández-López, M. (2009). OntologyTest: A Tool to Evaluate Ontologies through Tests Defined by the User. In: Omatu, S., et al. Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Soft Computing, and Ambient Assisted Living. IWANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02481-8_13

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