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Evaluation and consequent revision of ontologies is a critical task in the process of ontology engineering. We argue the necessity and merits of reviewing implicitly entailed knowledge as part of a methodical evaluation. We study this process by means of a prototypical implementation for OWL DL ontologies, called ontology questionnaire, and discuss support for dealing with unwanted inferences based on experiences with applying this questionnaire in some real-world modelling scenarios.
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Pammer, V., Lindstaedt, S. (2009). Ontology Evaluation through Assessment of Inferred Statements: Study of a Prototypical Implementation of an Ontology Questionnaire for OWL DL Ontologies. In: Karagiannis, D., Jin, Z. (eds) Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. KSEM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5914. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10488-6_38
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