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The paper proposes an alignment framework for a set of domain ontologies in order to enable their interoperability in a number of information retrieval tasks. The procedure starts by anchoring the domain ontologies concepts to the concepts of a generic reference ontology. This allows the representation of each domain concept as a fuzzy set of reference concepts or instances. Next, the domain concepts are mapped to one another by using fuzzy sets relatedness criteria. The match itself is presented as a fuzzy set of the reference concepts or instances, which allows the comparison of a new ontology directly to the already calculated matches. The paper contains a preliminary evaluation of the approach.
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Todorov, K., Geibel, P., Hudelot, C. (2011). A Framework for a Fuzzy Matching between Multiple Domain Ontologies. In: König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., Kise, K., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23851-2_55
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