Abstract
In this paper we propose an ontology matching paradigm based on the idea of harvesting the Semantic Web, i.e., automatically finding and exploring multiple and heterogeneous online knowledge sources to derive mappings. We adopt an experimental approach in the context of matching two real life, large-scale ontologies to investigate the potential of this paradigm, its limitations, and its relation to other techniques. Our experiments yielded a promising baseline precision of 70% and identified a set of critical issues that need to be considered to achieve the full potential of the paradigm. Besides providing a good performance as a stand-alone matcher, our paradigm is complementary to existing techniques and therefore could be used in hybrid tools that would further advance the state of the art in the ontology matching field.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Alani, H.: Position Paper: Ontology Construction from Online Ontologies. In: Proc. of WWW (2006)
Aleksovski, Z., Klein, M., ten Katen, W., van Harmelen, F.: Matching Unstructured Vocabularies using a Background Ontology. In: Staab, S., Svátek, V. (eds.) EKAW 2006. LNCS, vol. 4248. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Arens, Y., Chee, C.Y., Hsu, C.N., Knoblock, C.A.: Retrieving And Integrating Data From Multiple Information Sources. International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 2(2), 127–158 (1993)
Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., Lassila, O.: The Semantic Web. Scientific American 284(5), 34–43 (2001)
Bouquet, P., Giunchiglia, F., van Harmelen, F., Serafini, L., Stuckenschmidt, H.: Contextualizing ontologies. Journal of Web Semantics 1(4), 24 (2004)
Bouquet, P., Serafini, L., Zanobini, S.: Peer-to-Peer Semantic Coordination. Journal of Web Semantics 2(1) (2005)
Castano, S., Ferrara, A., Messa, G.: Results of the HMatch Ontology Matchmaker in OAEI 2006. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Cimiano, P., Handschuh, S., Staab, S.: Towards the Self-Annotating Web. In: Proc. of WWW (2004)
Collet, C., Huhns, M.N., Shen, W.: Resource Integration Using a Large Knowledge Base in Carnot. IEEE Computer 24(12), 55–62 (1991)
d’Aquin, M., Sabou, M., Dzbor, M., Baldassarre, C., Gridinoc, L., Angeletou, S., Motta, E.: WATSON: A Gateway for the Semantic Web. In: Franconi, E., Kifer, M., May, W. (eds.) ESWC 2007. LNCS, vol. 4519. Springer, Heidelberg (2007)
Ding, L., Pan, R., Finin, T., Joshi, A., Peng, Y., Kolari, P.: Finding and Ranking Knowledge on the Semantic Web. In: Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (eds.) ISWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3729. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Dzbor, M., Domingue, J., Motta, E.: Magpie - towards a semantic web browser. In: Fensel, D., Sycara, K.P., Mylopoulos, J. (eds.) ISWC 2003. LNCS, vol. 2870. Springer, Heidelberg (2003)
Ehrig, M., Sure, Y.: FOAM - Framework for Ontology Alignment and Mapping; Results of the Ontology Alignment Initiative. In: Proc. of the Workshop on Integrating Ontologies (2005)
Euzenat, J., Mochol, M., Shvaiko, P., Stuckenschmidt, H., Svab, O., Svatek, V., van Hage, W.R., Yatskevich, M.: Results of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2006. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Giunchiglia, F., Shvaiko, P., Yatskevich, M.: Semantic Schema Matching. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds.) OTM 2005. LNCS, vol. 3760, pp. 347–365. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Giunchiglia, F., Shvaiko, P., Yatskevich, M.: Discovering Missing Background Knowledge in Ontology Matching. In: Proc. of ECAI (2006)
Gracia, J., Lopez, V., d’Aquin, M., Sabou, M., Motta, E., Mena, E.: Solving Semantic Ambiguity to Improve Semantic Web based Ontology Matching. In: ISWC Workshop on Ontology Matching (2007) (to appear)
Gracia, J., Trillo, R., Espinoza, M., Mena, E.: Querying the Web: A Multiontology Disambiguation Method. In: Proc. of ICWE (2006)
Gruber, T.: A Translation Approach to Portable Ontology Specifications. Knowledge Acquisition 5(2), 199–220 (1993)
Haase, P., Qi, G.: An analysis of approaches to resolving inconsistencies in DL-based ontologies. In: Proc. of Int. WS on Ontology Dynamics, IWOD (2007)
Hu, W., Cheng, G., Zheng, D., Zhong, X., Qu, Y.: The Results of Falcon-AO in the OAEI 2006, Campaign. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Huhns, M.N., Jacobs, N., Ksiezyk, T., Shen, W., Singh, M.P., Cannata, P.E.: Integrating enterprise information models in Carnot. In: Proc. of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems (1993)
Hyvonen, E., Makela, E., Salminen, M., Valo, A., Viljanen, K., Saarela, S., Junnila, M., Kettula, S.: MuseumFinland – Finnish Museums on the Semantic Web. Journal of Web Semantics 3(2) (2005)
Jian, N., Hu, W., Cheng, C., Qu, Y.: Falcon-AO: Aligning Ontologies with Falcon. In: Proc. of the Workshop on Integrating Ontologies (2005)
Kalfoglou, Y., Schorlemmer, M.: Ontology Mapping: The State of the Art. The Knowledge Engineering Review 18(1), 1–31 (2003)
Lee, J., Goodwin, R.: The Semantic Webscape: a View of the Semantic Web. IBM Research Report (2004)
Li, Y., Li, J., Zhang, D., Tang, J.: Result of Ontology Alignment with RiMOM at OAEI 2006. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Lopez, V., Motta, E., Uren, V.: PowerAqua: Fishing the Semantic Web. In: Sure, Y., Domingue, J. (eds.) ESWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4011. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Lopez, V., Pasin, M., Motta, E.: AquaLog: An Ontology-portable Question Answering System for the Semantic Web. In: Gómez-Pérez, A., Euzenat, J. (eds.) ESWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3532. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Magnini, B., Serafini, L., Speranza, M.: Making explicit the semantics hiden in schema models. In: Proc. of the Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web WS (2003)
Mao, M., Peng, Y.: PRIOR System: Results for OAEI 2006. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Massmann, S., Engmann, D., Rahm, E.: COMA++: Results for the Ontology Alignment Contest OAEI 2006. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Meilicke, C.: Reasoning about Mappings in Distributed Description Logics. Bachelor Thesis, University of Mannheim (August 2006)
Meilicke, C., Stuckenschmidt, H., Tamilin, A.: Improving Automatically Created Mappings using Logical Reasoning. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Meilicke, C., Stuckenschmidt, H., Tamilin, A.: Repairing Ontology Mappings. In: Proc. of AAAI (2007)
Mika, P.: Flink: Semantic Web Technology for the Extraction and Analysis of Social Networks. Journal of Web Semantics 3(2) (2005)
Motta, E., Sabou, M.: Next Generation Semantic Web Applications. In: Mizoguchi, R., Shi, Z.-Z., Giunchiglia, F. (eds.) ASWC 2006. LNCS, vol. 4185. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Noy, N.F.: Semantic Integration: a Survey Of Ontology-Based Approaches. SIGMOD Record 33(4), 65–70 (2004)
Rahm, E., Bernstein, P.: A Survey of Approaches to Automatic Schema Matching. The VLDB Journal 10, 334–350 (2001)
Sabou, M., d’Aquin, M., Motta, E.: Using the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Mapping. In: Shvaiko, et al. [45]
Sabou, M., Gracia, J., Angeletou, S., d’Aquin, M., Motta, E.: Evaluating the Semantic Web: A Task-based Approach. In: Proc. of ASWC/ISWC (2007)
Schlobach, S.: Diagnosing Terminologies. In: Proc. of AAAI (2005)
Schlobach, S., Huang, Z., Cornet, R., van Harmelen, F.: Debugging Incoherent Terminologies. Journal of Automated Reasoning (2007)
Shvaiko, P., Euzenat, J.: A survey of schema-based matching approaches. In: Spaccapietra, S. (ed.) Journal on Data Semantics IV. LNCS, vol. 3730, pp. 146–171. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Shvaiko, P., Euzenat, J., Noy, N., Stuckenschmidt, H., Benjamins, R., Uschold, M. (eds.) Proc. of the ISWC Ontology Matching WS (November 2006)
Stephens, L.M., Gangam, A.K., Huhns, M.N.: Constructing Consensus Ontologies for the Semantic Web: A Conceptual Approach. World Wide Web Journal 7(4), 421–442 (2004)
Stuckenschmidt, H., Serafini, L., Wache, H.: Reasoning about Ontology Mappings. In: Proc. of the ECAI WS on Context Representation and Reasoning (2006)
Stuckenschmidt, H., van Harmelen, F., Serafini, L., Bouquet, P., Giunchiglia, F.: Using C-OWL for the Alignment and Merging of Medical Ontologies. In: Proc. of the First Int. WS. on Formal Biomedical K.R. (KRMed) (2004)
Tamilin, A.: Distributed Ontological Reasoning: Theory, Algorithms and Applications. PhD Thesis, University of Trento (February 2007)
van Hage, W., Katrenko, S., Schreiber, G.: A Method to Combine Linguistic Ontology-Mapping Techniques. In: Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (eds.) ISWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3729. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Völker, J., Vrandecic, D., Sure, Y.: Automatic Evaluation of Ontologies (AEON). In: Gil, Y., Motta, E., Benjamins, V.R., Musen, M.A. (eds.) ISWC 2005. LNCS, vol. 3729. Springer, Heidelberg (2005)
Wache, H., Voegele, T., Visser, U., Stuckenschmidt, H., Schuster, G., Neumann, H., Huebner, S.: Ontology-Based Integration of Information—A Survey of Existing Approaches. In: Proc. of the WS on Ontologies and Information Sharing (2001)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Sabou, M., d’Aquin, M., Motta, E. (2008). Exploring the Semantic Web as Background Knowledge for Ontology Matching. In: Spaccapietra, S., et al. Journal on Data Semantics XI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92148-6_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92148-6_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-92147-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-92148-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)