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Our objective is to automatically build a global ontology from several data sources, annotated with local ontologies and aiming to share their data in a specific application domain. The originality of our proposal lies in the use of a background knowledge, i.e. a reference ontology, as a mediation support for data integration. We represent ontologies using Description Logics and we combine syntactic-matching with logical-reasoning in order to build the shared global TBox from both the TBoxes of sources and that of the reference ontology.
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Niang, C., Bouchou, B., Lo, M., Sam, Y. (2011). Automatic Building of an Appropriate Global Ontology. In: Eder, J., Bielikova, M., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6909. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23737-9_31
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