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Pitfalls in Ontologies and TIPS to Prevent Them

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Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2013)

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A growing number of ontologies are already available thanks to development initiatives in many different fields. In such ontology developments, developers must tackle a wide range of difficulties and handicaps, which can result in the appearance of anomalies in the resulting ontologies. Therefore, ontology evaluation plays a key role in ontology development. OOPS! is an on-line tool that automatically detects pitfalls, considered as potential errors or problems—and thus may help ontology developers to improve their ontologies. To gain insight in the existence of pitfalls and to assess whether there are differences among ontologies developed by novices, a random set of already scanned ontologies, and existing well-known ones, data of 406 OWL ontologies were analysed on OOPS!’s 21 pitfalls, of which 24 ontologies were also examined manually on the detected pitfalls. The various analyses performed show only minor differences between the three sets of ontologies, therewith providing a general landscape of pitfalls in ontologies. We also propose guidelines to avoid the inclusion of such common pitfalls in new ontologies, the Typical pItfalls Prevention Scheme (TIPS), so as to increase the baseline quality of OWL ontologies.

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This work has been partially supported by the Spanish projects BabelData (TIN2010-17550) and BuscaMedia (CENIT 2009-1026).

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  1. School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, UKZN/CSIR-Meraka Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

    C. Maria Keet

  2. Ontology Engineering Group, Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa & María Poveda-Villalón

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  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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  3. Henley Business School, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

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Maria Keet, C., Suárez-Figueroa, M.C., Poveda-Villalón, M. (2015). Pitfalls in Ontologies and TIPS to Prevent Them. In: Fred, A., Dietz, J., Liu, K., Filipe, J. (eds) Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46549-3_8

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