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A Useful Tool to Support the Ontology Alignment Repair

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Ontologies are used in Information Systems to manage and share knowledge pertaining to different domains, considering it is common that one particular piece of knowledge is modeled individually into different ontologies. Alignment processes are carried out towards interoperability; however, the results are not effective in most cases, requiring manual repair and review by domain experts. Thus, this work introduces a repair and review tool for the alignment of ontologies with the goal of assisting experts in the alignment repair tasks. Using the technology acceptance model, a proof of concept was made to analyze the perception by domain experts regarding the tool’s usefulness, ease, and intention of use. From statistical analyses in terms of reliability, default path, inference, and correlation, it has been found that study participants had a positive perception of the tool’s usefulness and ease in the tasks of ontology alignment repair. Therefore, the tool and its functionalities proved to be useful towards assisting domain experts in their tasks of reducing the semantic heterogeneity among ontologies pertaining to the same domain through alignment repair.

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  1. Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGI), Federal University of State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Miriam Oliveira dos Santos, Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro de Mello & Tadeu Moreira de Classe

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dos Santos, M.O., de Mello, C.E.R., de Classe, T.M. (2020). A Useful Tool to Support the Ontology Alignment Repair. In: Cerri, R., Prati, R.C. (eds) Intelligent Systems. BRACIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12320. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61380-8_14

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