Putting ontology alignment in context: usage scenarios, deployment and evaluation in a library case

  • Authors:

  • Antoine Isaac;Henk Matthezing;Lourens van der Meij;Stefan Schlobach;Shenghui Wang;Claus Zinn

  • Affiliations:

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag;Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag;Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag;Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam;Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag;Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

  • Venue:
  • ESWC'08 Proceedings of the 5th European semantic web conference on The semantic web: research and applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Thesaurus alignment plays an important role in realising efficient access to heterogeneous Cultural Heritage data. Current ontology alignment techniques, however, provide only limited value for such access as they consider little if any requirements from realistic use cases or application scenarios. In this paper, we focus on two real-world scenarios in a library context: thesaurus merging and book re-indexing. We identify their particular requirements and describe our approach of deploying and evaluating thesaurus alignment techniques in this context. We have applied our approach for the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative, and report on the performance evaluation of participants' tools wrt. the application scenario at hand. It shows that evaluations of tools requires significant effort, but when done carefully, brings many benefits.