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Generating and Integrating Evidence for Ontology Mappings
Masterthesis, Technical University Kaiserslautern,.
Abstract
With the broadening deployment of e-business and upcoming of the semantic web, methods and tools for comprehensive ontology management become more and more important.
Mapping and merging ontologies are core processes in the context of ontology handling. As merging ontologies also involves identifying relationships between different ontologies, techniques used in merging can also be used for mediating between ontologies which becomes important in the light of the heterogenity of ontologies used for example in the semantic web.
Gathering evidence for ontology merging operations is typically done either using name-based, structure-based, or instance-based techniques. In this thesis, algorithms using these three approaches are used. These evidences are is aggregated and possible relationships between the ontologies' classes are identified. Furthermore, the approach described in this thesis can identify non-standard relationships such as subclass and superclass relationships as well as improve its relationship estimates iteratively, based on user's feedback.
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