A framework for a fuzzy matching between multiple domain ontologies

  • Authors:
  • Konstantin Todorov;Peter Geibel;Céline Hudelot

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory MAS, École Centrale Paris;Fakultät IV, TU Berlin;Laboratory MAS, École Centrale Paris

  • Venue:
  • KES'11 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The paper proposes an alignment framework for a set of domain ontologies in order to enable their interoperability in a number of information retrieval tasks. The procedure starts by anchoring the domain ontologies concepts to the concepts of a generic reference ontology. This allows the representation of each domain concept as a fuzzy set of reference concepts or instances. Next, the domain concepts are mapped to one another by using fuzzy sets relatedness criteria. The match itself is presented as a fuzzy set of the reference concepts or instances, which allows the comparison of a new ontology directly to the already calculated matches. The paper contains a preliminary evaluation of the approach.