CartoMetric: Semantic ontology evaluation with cartographic methods

Abstract

In the last years, with development of the Semantic Web, large number of still evolving ontologies has been designed, which led to rising of the environment called sometimes ldquowild wide Webrdquo. In this rapidly changing environment, both human users and computer agents need a method of evaluation of ontologies that takes into consideration their semantic properties, i.e. the spaces of possible models. This paper presents latest improvements of the cartographic method, which has been developed in the course of PIPS - 6th European Framework Project - and focuses on use of the method for measuring semantic properties of ontologies. A prototypical system performing this task and the results of the preliminary experiments are also presented.