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Visual Ontology Alignment for Semantic Web Applications

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice (ER 2006)

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Ontologies play an important role for the semantic web because they aim at capturing domain knowledge in a generic way and provide a consensual understanding of a domain. Due to the number of ontologies available the need for mapping or bringing them into alignment has prompted a surge of tools and algorithms to be developed for this purpose. We describe some of these ontology alignment tools and discuss issues and shortcomings in current state of the art. From this analysis we propose the use of visualization techniques to facilitate understanding of the ontology alignment results. Finally we briefly describe AlViz, our visual ontology alignment tool.

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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology,  

    Jennifer Sampson & Monika Lanzenberger

  2. Vienna University of Technology,  

    Jennifer Sampson & Monika Lanzenberger

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

    John F. Roddick

  2. iSOCO, Spain

    V. Richard Benjamins

  3. CEDRIC-CNAM, France

    Samira Si-said Cherfi

  4. University of Cincinnati, USA

    Roger Chiang

  5. Naval Academy Research Institute, Brest Naval, France

    Christophe Claramunt

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

    Ramez A. Elmasri

  7. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Italy

    Fabio Grandi

  8. Drexel University, USA

    Hyoil Han

  9. E-Business and Web Science Research Group, Bundeswehr University Munich, Germany

    Martin Hepp

  10. University of Patras, Argolidos 40-42, 153-44, Gerakas Attikis, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  11. University of Manitoba, Canada

    Vojislav B. Mišić

  12. Ghent University, Belgium

    Geert Poels

  13. College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University, USA

    Il-Yeol Song

  14. Department of Software and Computing Systems, University of Alicante, Spain

    Juan Trujillo

  15. EPFL, Switzerland

    Christelle Vangenot

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Sampson, J., Lanzenberger, M. (2006). Visual Ontology Alignment for Semantic Web Applications. In: Roddick, J.F., et al. Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice. ER 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4231. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908883_48

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