Conference Papers Year : 2004

An API for ontology alignment

Abstract

Ontologies are seen as the solution to data heterogeneity on the web. However, the available ontologies are themselves source of heterogeneity. This can be overcome by aligning ontologies, or finding the correspondence between their components. These alignments deserve to be treated as objects: they can be referenced on the web as such, be completed by an algorithm that improves a particular alignment, be compared with other alignments and be transformed into a set of axioms or a translation program. We present here a format for expressing alignments in RDF, so that they can be published on the web. Then we propose an implementation of this format as an Alignment API, which can be seen as an extension of the OWL API and shares some design goals with it. We show how this API can be used for effectively aligning ontologies and completing partial alignments, thresholding alignments or generating axioms and transformations.

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hal-00825931 , version 1 (24-05-2013)

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Jérôme Euzenat. An API for ontology alignment. Proc. 3rd international semantic web conference (ISWC), Nov 2004, Hiroshima, Japan. pp.698-712, ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-30475-3_48⟩. ⟨hal-00825931⟩
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