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The development of ontologies in current Semantic Web is in a distributed and loosely-coupled way. Knowledge workers build their vocabularies in accessible web ontologies in their own manner. Two extreme cases are: many highly related concepts are defined separately in a set of tiny ontology fragments; while some massive ontologies defines a large set of concepts, which semantically belong to different areas. These cases bring a barrier to ontology reuse. In this paper, we propose an approach to semantically reorganizing concepts defined in various ontologies. We transform the reorganization problem to a graph clustering problem, and the result of reorganization is a set of virtual vocabularies for reuse. Experiments on a massive ontology repository show that our approach is feasible and efficient.
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Wen, Y., Zhang, X., Shen, K., Wang, P. (2013). Towards Building Virtual Vocabularies in the Semantic Web. In: Motoda, H., Wu, Z., Cao, L., Zaiane, O., Yao, M., Wang, W. (eds) Advanced Data Mining and Applications. ADMA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8346. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53914-5_17
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