A Survey on Ontology Evaluation Methods

Ontologies are an important part of the semantic web, and as ontologies are increasingly used and developed in areas such as knowledge management, information extraction and the semantic web, they need to be improved and standardized. Valuating ontologies (especially defining what constitutes a“good”or“better”ontology) is therefore of central importance for the Semantic Web community. The purpose of this article is to examine the ontology evaluation criteria and also to categorize them based on their relationship.

The present study is an analytical review and library method was used to collect data.

Despite much theoretical and conceptual work on ontology evaluation, there is still no consensus on ontology evaluation and it can be said that there is no method for evaluating ontology which is best or preferred. Instead, choosing the appropriate approach Depending on our purpose of evaluation, the application that the ontology is created for and what aspect of ontology we want to use and since ontology evaluation is a new and very important topic, especially for the semantic web, more research is needed and it is better to use it when used.he presented ontology evaluation techniques can be grouped into four categories: gold standard-based, corpus-based, task-based and criteria based approaches