SynEvaluator

A tool offering Syntactic Quality Evaluation of an ontology. Requires no programming knowledge.

This application is written in Python-Flask and deployed to Heroku here.

Installation instructions

• Go the root folder of this application.
• Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt.
• Then, run export FLASK_APP=app.py
• Finally, run flask run. You should be able to access the application at http://localhost:5000/

For any help regarding how to create rules, the documentation can be accessed on localhost or on the deployed site.

Directory structure

This repository contains the following folders:

• static: For storing js and css files of the flask application
• templates: For storing html files used in the flask application
• temp: Used by the application for temporarily storing uploaded ontologies. Please don't make any changes here.

In addition, the root folder contains the following files:

• app.py: Main file of this application. Calls functions for all available routes
• ontology.py: Class for parsing the input ontology
• pitfall_scanner.py: Contains the PitfallScanner class that scans the ontology for any detectable pitfalls, based on the created rules.
• helper.py: Contains helper functions used by pitfall_scanner.py
• nltk.txt: Used by Heroku to download relevant nltk packages, in our case, WordNet.

Help

In case any further questions are unanswered by the documentation, please don't hesitate to raise an issue.