Abstract
Semantic alignment between ontologies is a crucial task for information integration. There are many ongoing efforts to develop matching systems implementing various alignment techniques but it is impossible to predict what strategy is most successful for an application domain or a given pair of ontologies. Very often the quality of the results could be improved by considering the specificities of the ontologies to be aligned. In this paper, we propose a pattern-based approach implemented in the TaxoMap Framework helping an engineer to refine mappings to take into account specific conventions used in ontologies. Experiments in the topographic field within the ANR (The French National Research Agency) project GéOnto show the usefulness of such an environment both for a domain expert and an engineer, especially when the number of mappings is very large.
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Hamdi, F., Reynaud, C., Safar, B. (2010). Pattern-Based Mapping Refinement. In: Cimiano, P., Pinto, H.S. (eds) Knowledge Engineering and Management by the Masses. EKAW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16438-5_1
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