Naturalness of Ontology Concepts for Rating Aspects of the Semantic Web

Authors

Yoo Jung An, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Kuo-chuan Huang, New Jersey Institute of Technology
James Geller, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Abstract

The Semantic Web is expected to be the next generation of the WWW. Ontologies and agents are major ingredients of the Semantic Web. In (Lee and Geller 2005), we have argued that some existing ontologies make use of unnatural concepts. We stated that unnatural concepts make it difficult to use an ontology and they contradict the purpose of an ontology, which includes explanatory power for the purpose of sharing information. In this paper we elaborate what makes a concept unnatural. We also analyze existing ontologies to get numeric measures of how natural their concepts are.

Recommended Citation

An, Yoo Jung; Huang, Kuo-chuan; and Geller, James (2006) "Naturalness of Ontology Concepts for Rating Aspects of the Semantic Web," Communications of the IIMA: Vol. 6: Iss. 3, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58729/1941-6687.1326
Available at: https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/ciima/vol6/iss3/7