In the semantic web environment, where several independent ontologies are used in order to describe knowledge and data, ontologies have to be aligned by defining mappings among the elements of one ontology and the elements of another ontology. Very often, mappings are not derived from the semantics of the ontologies that are compared. Rather, mappings are computed by evaluating the similarity of the ontologies terminology and/or of their syntactic structure. In this paper, we propose a new mapping validation approach. The approach is based on the notion of probabilistic mappings and on the use of probabilistic reasoning techniques to enforce a semantic interpretation of similarity mappings as probabilistic and hypothetical relations among ontology elements.

Mapping validation by probabilistic reasoning / S. Castano, A. Ferrara, D. Lorusso, T.H. Naeth, R. Moller - In: The Semantic Web : research and applications : 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-5, 2008 : proceedings / [a cura di] S. Bechhofer, M. Hauswirth, J. Hoffmann, M. Koubarakis. - Berlin : Springer, 2008 Jun. - ISBN 9783540682332. - pp. 170-184 (( Intervento presentato al 5. convegno European Semantic Web Conference tenutosi a Tenerife nel 2008 [10.1007/978-3-540-68234-9].

Mapping validation by probabilistic reasoning

S. Castano
Primo
;
A. Ferrara
Secondo
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D. Lorusso;
2008

Abstract

In the semantic web environment, where several independent ontologies are used in order to describe knowledge and data, ontologies have to be aligned by defining mappings among the elements of one ontology and the elements of another ontology. Very often, mappings are not derived from the semantics of the ontologies that are compared. Rather, mappings are computed by evaluating the similarity of the ontologies terminology and/or of their syntactic structure. In this paper, we propose a new mapping validation approach. The approach is based on the notion of probabilistic mappings and on the use of probabilistic reasoning techniques to enforce a semantic interpretation of similarity mappings as probabilistic and hypothetical relations among ontology elements.
ontology matching ; probabilistic reasoning ; mapping validation
Settore INF/01 - Informatica
Settore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni
giu-2008
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