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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2018 Feb 17;80:1–13. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2018.02.010

Table 4.

The analysis result of the 15 ontologies with documented evaluation

Number of Ontologies (n=15) Completeness Overall Completeness
Validation 9 60.00% 70.00%
Verification 12 80.00%
Ranking (D1) 0 0.00% 31.11%
Correctness (D2) 7 46.67%
Quality (D3) 7 46.67%
Lexical (BL1) 1 6.67% 20.00%
Taxonomic (BL2) 3 20.00%
Semantic relationships (BL3) 2 13.33%
Context (BL4) 3 20.00%
Syntactic (BL5) 1 6.67%
Structural, architecture, design (BL6) 8 53.33%
Gold standard (BA1) 2 13.33% 31.67%
Application based (BA2) 7 46.67%
Data driven (BA3) 5 33.33%
User-based (BA4) 5 33.33%
Evolution (T1) 1 6.67% 28.89%
Logic/Rule based (T2) 5 33.33%
Metric-based (T3) 7 46.67%
Application-based evaluation (O1) 7 46.67% 22.22%
Data source comparison (O2) 5 33.33%
Human assessment (O3) 5 33.33%
NLP-based evaluation (O4) 2 13.33%
Reality benchmark (O5) 0 0.00%
Community certification (O6) 1 6.67%