Title: The Role of String Similarity Metrics in Ontology Alignment
Abstract: An ontology is a representation of the concepts in a domain and how they relate to one another. Engineering new ontologies is not a deterministic process – many design decisions must be made, and the designers’ backgrounds and the application they are targeting will influence their decisions in different ways. The end result is that two ontologies that represent the same domain will not be the same. They may use synonyms for the same concept, they may be at different levels of abstraction, they may not include all of the same concepts, and they may not even be in the same language. The goal of ontology alignment is to determine when an entity in one ontology is semantically related to an entity in another ontology (for a comprehensive discussion of ontology alignment, including a formal definition, see [22]). This would allow software applications to ingest information across different websites.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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