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but they do not help assess the correctness or robustness of the codes. Beyond such
metrics, we wish to dene functional quality criteria for search ontologies. Gulla et
al. [8] dene the following desirable properties in a search ontology:
◾ Concept familiarity: the terminology introduced by the ontology is strongly
connected to user terms in search queries.
◾ Document discrimination: the concept granularity in the ontology is compat-
ible with the granularity of users’ queries. is granularity compatibility
allows good grouping of search results according to the ontology concept
hierarchy.
◾ Query formulation: the depth of the hierarchy in the ontology and the com-
plexity and leng ...