Modelo para la evaluación de ontologías. Aplicación en Onto-Satcol

This paper analyzes the conceptual and theoretical framework for the evaluation of ontologies, in order to understand the procedures used in the evaluation of these systems and to establish new guidelines for evaluating the system employed by the ontological program, SATCOL, that specializes in Port and Coastal Engineering. This paper describes the characteristics of the Onto-SATCOL ontology and evaluates it by using several indicators (lexical, information retrieval, and syntactic structure). Through an experiment conducted by six experts aided by the tool, Protex, semantic and structural inconsistencies are identified, as are errors in the ontology’s organization of knowledge.