A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR BUILDING AND EVALUATING ONTOLOGIES: CASE STUDY OF 2013 ONTOLOGY BUILDING COMPETITION
A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT FOR BUILDING AND EVALUATING ONTOLOGIES: CASE STUDY OF 2013 ONTOLOGY BUILDING COMPETITION

Summary/Abstract: Teaching ontologies is part of the most general problem of designing new learning environments. In this line, the Business Process Modeling For Education (BPM4ED) project for design of 21st century schools comprehends the creation of models of new schools with new learning environments but also the different organization and structure. Ontology Building Competition (BOC) is a competition for developing ontologies, where the evaluation and the final ranking are computed automatically, based on five dimensions of evaluation: i) structural, ii) semantic, iii) design patterns, iv) worst practices, and v) the ability of answering to a set of competency questions. Ontology Building Competition is part of the BPM4ED as a new learning environment is proposed which allows students to manage ontologies and to assess the results automatically. Both ontology and automatic assessment are two important sectors for the 21st century school, and therefore they are part of the design of the BPM4ED tools.The learning environment gradually assess the work of the students. Hence, during the semester students are aware of the strong and weak points of their practical work, and also on the current hierarchy in the designed class. The learning tool was developed in LISP and exploits the RacerPro reasoning capabilities. The rules of the competition are described in a formal language, as a reference ontology. BOC2013 represents the first edition of the competition, which had 25 teams participating. In this paper we present the formal specification of the competition, the evaluation metrics that were used, and an analysis of the results of the BOC 2013 edition.

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