An approach for the automatic recommendation of ontologies using collaborative knowledge

  • Authors:
  • Marcos Martínez-Romero;José M. Vázquez-Naya;Cristian R. Munteanu;Javier Pereira;Alejandro Pazos

  • Affiliations:
  • IMEDIR Center, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;IMEDIR Center, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruñ, A Coruña, Spain;IMEDIR Center, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain;Department of Information and Communication Technologies, University of A Coruñ, A Coruña, Spain

  • Venue:
  • KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part II
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In recent years, ontologies have become an essential tool to structure and reuse the exponential growth of information in the Web. As the number of publicly available ontologies increases, researchers face the problem of finding the ontology (or ontologies) which provides the best coverage for a particular context. In this paper, we propose an approach to automatically recommend the best ontology for an initial set of terms. The approach is based on measuring the adequacy of the ontology according to three different criteria: (1) How well the ontology covers the given terms, (2) the semantic richness of the ontology and, importantly, (3) the popularity of the ontology in the Web 2.0. In order to evaluate this approach, we implemented a prototype to recommend ontologies in the biomedical domain. Results show the importance of using collaborative knowledge in the field of ontology recommendation.