Towards an approach for configuring ontology validation

Abstract

Ontologies are becoming widely recognised as key components in various types of systems and applications. However, ontology validation remains a critical open issue. In previous work, we have proposed a standard typology of problems that need to be removed for validating one ontology. Indeed, there is no standard vocabulary and definitions for those problems. In this paper, we introduce checking dependencies between standard problems; a validation process needs to satisfy checking dependencies for detecting and removing properly problems mentioned above. Then, we report an experience, based on 2 ontologies automatically generated from textual resources, showing how the typology can practically be deployed for configuring a validation process.