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Abstract

This paper presents a survey on existing work on usability evaluation
of ontology editors. It also highlights the lack of a standard approach
for quantitative evaluation of ontology editors. An ontology editor
facilitates the developers in ontology creation. It provides a GUI
abstraction over common ontology development tasks and hides the
technical complexities from the users. Different ontology editors
have evolved in the last few years. Despite the continuous evolution
of these tools, there has not been enough work done on usability
evaluation of these tools. It is observed that most of the proposals
evaluated their advocated tool by performing a feature-wise
comparison with other tools. Only a few works quantitatively evaluate
their proposed ontology editor with well-known ontology editors.
This paper compiles existing work on usability evaluation of ontology
editors. Based on our study, various issues involved in development
of a standard approach to ontology editor evaluation have been
highlighted. The paper concludes with recommendations for a
standard approach to usability evaluation of ontology editors.