02232nas a2200289 4500008004100000245009000041210006900131260003900200300001200239490000900251520133400260100001801594700001901612700001701631700002701648700002001675700002001695700001601715700002301731700002101754700003101775700001801806700002601824700002401850700001801874856005001892 2011 eng d00aContextual Ontology Alignment of LOD with an Upper Ontology: A Case Study with Proton0 aContextual Ontology Alignment of LOD with an Upper Ontology A Ca aHeraklion, Crete, GreecebSpringer a80–920 v66433 a
The Linked Open Data (LOD) is a major milestone towards realizing the Semantic Web vision, and can enable applications such as robust Question Answering (QA) systems that can answer queries requiring multiple, disparate information sources. However, realizing these applications requires relationships at both the schema and instance level, but currently the LOD only provides relationships for the latter. To address this limitation, we present a solution for automatically finding schema-level links between two LOD ontologies – in the sense of ontology alignment. Our solution, called BLOOMS+, extends our previous solution (i.e. BLOOMS) in two significant ways. BLOOMS+ 1) uses a more sophisticated metric to determine which classes between two ontologies to align, and 2) considers contextual information to further support (or reject) an alignment. We present a comprehensive evaluation of our solution using schema-level mappings from LOD ontologies to Proton (an upper level ontology) – created manually by human experts for a real world application called FactForge. We show that our solution performed well on this task. We also show that our solution significantly outperformed existing ontology alignment solutions (including our previously published work on BLOOMS) on this same task.
1 aJain, Prateek1 aYeh, Peter, Z.1 aVerma, Kunal1 aVasquez, Reymonrod, G.1 aDamova, Mariana1 aHitzler, Pascal1 aSheth, Amit1 aAntoniou, Grigoris1 aGrobelnik, Marko1 aSimperl, Elena, Paslaru Bo1 aParsia, Bijan1 aPlexousakis, Dimitris1 aDe Leenheer, Pieter1 aPan, Jeff, Z. uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21034-1_6