Ontological distance measures for information visualisation on conceptual maps

  • Authors:
  • Sylvie Ranwez;Vincent Ranwez;Jean Villerd;Michel Crampes

  • Affiliations:
  • LGI2P Research Centre, Nîmes cedex 1, France;Laboratoire de Paléontologie, Phylogénie et Paléobiologie, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution (UMR 5554 CNRS), Université Montpellier II, MONTPELLIER Cedex 05, France;LGI2P Research Centre, Nîmes cedex 1, France;LGI2P Research Centre, Nîmes cedex 1, France

  • Venue:
  • OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: AWeSOMe, CAMS, COMINF, IS, KSinBIT, MIOS-CIAO, MONET - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Finding the right semantic distance to be used for information research, classification or text clustering using Natural Language Processing is a problem studied in several domains of computer science We focus on measurements that are real distances: i.e that satisfy all the properties of a distance This paper presents one isa-distance measurement that may be applied to taxonomies This distance, combined with a distance based on relations other than isa, may be a step towards a real semantic distance for ontologies After presenting the purpose of this work and the position of our approach within the literature, we formally detail our isa-distance It is extended to other relations and used to obtain a MDS projection of a musical ontology in an industrial project The utility of such a distance in visualization, navigation, information research and ontology engineering is underlined.