Domain-Oriented Evaluation and Prediction for Documentation Quality of Web Services

The documentation quality of Web services refers to the information in the Web service descriptions, which can affect service discovery process and subsequent use by service requesters. However, currently only with the help of expert knowledge and experience are we able to evaluate the documentation quality one by one. As a result, it brings difficulty in management of Web services. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel domain-oriented evaluation and prediction framework for documentation quality of Web services. Our evaluation model is based on a large amount of Web service documents in broad domains. The key innovation is that our framework can measure and predict the documentation quality for new Web service descriptions, so that more expressive, more readable and more easily composable Web services will be provided for service requesters. In addition, experiments conducted on 1090 Web services demonstrated the efficacy of our approach in evaluating and predicting the documentation quality for both WSDL and OWL-S documents.