Uncertainty in the Automation of Ontology Matching

  • Authors:
  • Valerie Cross

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ISUMA '03 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The exchange of information between two agents overthe Semantic Web requires a means of translatingbetween the "vocabularies" of the agents. Muchresearch has focused on the use of ontologies forspecifying an agent's knowledge and for exchanginginformation between agents. Effective communicationbetween agents using different ontologies, however,requires determining the semantic interoperability, i.e.,the agreement between the two agents' ontologies.Ontology matching is essential for the process of mergingor aligning ontologies and for effective communicationbetween agents. This paper presents a survey of severalproposals for ontology matching and develops aframework for the process of ontology comparison fromseveral different levels and views. The role of fuzzy settheory in measuring the quality of the match between twoontologies is examined.