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Fuzzy and Cross-Lingual Ontology Matching Mediated by Background Knowledge

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Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web III (URSW 2012, URSW 2011, URSW 2013)

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Abstract

The paper proposes an ontology alignment framework with two core features: the use of background knowledge and the ability to handle imprecision in the matching process and the resulting concept alignments. The procedure is based on the use of a generic reference vocabulary, which is used to define an explicit semantic space for the ontologies to be matched. General-purpose background knowledge sources based on Wikipedia, such as Yago, appear to be appropriate choices of reference vocabularies. The outcome of the procedure is a combined fuzzy knowledge body which captures what is common in two source ontologies. The proposed approach allows to discover cross-concept relations of the kind many-to-many. An important application of the method is found in the field of cross-lingual ontology matching.

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    http://oaei.ontologymatching.org

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  1. LIRMM/Université de Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France

    Konstantin Todorov

  2. Ecole Centrale Paris, Châtenay-Malabry, France

    Celiné Hudelot

  3. TU Berlin, Sekr. MAR 4-2, Berlin, Germany

    Peter Geibel

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    Fernando Bobillo

  2. Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brazil

    Rommel N. Carvalho

  3. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Paulo C.G. Costa

  4. Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

    Claudia d'Amato

  5. Università degli Studi di Bari, Bari, Italy

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  6. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

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  7. MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, USA

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  8. University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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  9. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

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  10. Goldman Sachs, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

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Todorov, K., Hudelot, C., Geibel, P. (2014). Fuzzy and Cross-Lingual Ontology Matching Mediated by Background Knowledge. In: Bobillo, F., et al. Uncertainty Reasoning for the Semantic Web III. URSW URSW URSW 2012 2011 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8816. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13413-0_8

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