Gui --- phooey!: the case for text input
Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Human-mediated visual ontology alignment
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Human interface: Part II
A cognitive support framework for ontology mapping
ISWC'07/ASWC'07 Proceedings of the 6th international The semantic web and 2nd Asian conference on Asian semantic web conference
A semantic web map mediation service: interactive redesign and sharing of map legends
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Spatial Semantics and Ontologies
Interactive graph matching and visual comparison of graphs and clustered graphs
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Ontology Alignment Quality: A Framework and Tool for Validation
International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design
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We introduce a multiple-view tool called AlViz, which supports the alignment of ontologies visually. Ontologies play an important role for interoperability between organizations and for the semantic web because they aim at capturing domain knowledge in a generic way and provide a consensual understanding of a domain. Alignment is the process where for each entity in one ontology we try to find a corresponding entity in the second ontology with the same or the closest meaning. Existing ontology alignment tools do not adequately provide a way for users to analyse the results. While many alignment tools generate lists of mappings it is difficult to analyse these alignments without examining every pairwise correspondence in the output files and even then it is an overwhelming task. We propose the use of visualization techniques to facilitate user understanding of the ontology alignment results. AlViz is implemented as a tab plug-in for Protege.