The PROMPT suite: interactive tools for ontology merging and mapping

  • Authors:

  • Natalya F. Noy;Mark A. Musen

  • Affiliations:

  • Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, MSOB x-249, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA;Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University, MSOB x-249, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, CA

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Researchers in the ontology-design field have developed the content for ontologies in many domain areas. This distributed nature of ontology development has led to a large number of ontologies covering overlapping domains. In order for these ontologies to be reused, they first need to be merged or aligned to one another. We developed a suite of tools for managing multiple ontologies. These suite provides users with a uniform framework for comparing, aligning, and merging ontologies, maintaining versions, translating between different formalisms. Two of the tools in the suite support semi-automatic ontology merging: IPROMPT is an interactive ontology-merging tool that guides the user through the merging process, presenting him with suggestions for next steps and identifying inconsistencies and potential problems. ANCHORPROMPT uses a graph structure of ontologies to find correlation between concepts and to provide additional information for IPROMPT.