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Using MathML to Represent Units of Measurement for Improved Ontology Alignment

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Intelligent Computer Mathematics (CICM 2013)

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Ontologies provide a formal description of concepts and their relationships in a knowledge domain. The goal of ontology alignment is to identify semantically matching concepts and relationships across independently developed ontologies that purport to describe the same knowledge. In order to handle the widest possible class of ontologies, many alignment algorithms rely on terminological and structural methods, but the often fuzzy nature of concepts complicates the matching process. However, one area that should provide clear matching solutions due to its mathematical nature, is units of measurement. Several ontologies for units of measurement are available, but there has been no attempt to align them, notwithstanding the obvious importance for technical interoperability. We propose a general strategy to map these (and similar) ontologies by introducing MathML to accurately capture the semantic description of concepts specified therein. We provide mapping results for three ontologies, and show that our approach improves on lexical comparisons.

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    Chau Do & Eric J. Pauwels

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  1. Computing and Software, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, L8S 4K1, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Jacques Carette

  2. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, EH8 9AB, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    David Aspinall

  3. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK

    Christoph Lange

  4. Faculty of Informatics, Department of Computer Graphics and Design, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 60200, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  5. Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU), RISC, Altenberger Strasse 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Wolfgang Windsteiger

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Do, C., Pauwels, E.J. (2013). Using MathML to Represent Units of Measurement for Improved Ontology Alignment. In: Carette, J., Aspinall, D., Lange, C., Sojka, P., Windsteiger, W. (eds) Intelligent Computer Mathematics. CICM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7961. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39320-4_21

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