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Towards design patterns for ontology alignment

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François Scharffe,

Jérôme Euzenat,

Dieter FenselAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing

Pages 2321 - 2325

https://doi.org/10.1145/1363686.1364236

Published: 16 March 2008 Publication History

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Aligning ontologies is a crucial and tedious task. Matching algorithms and tools provide support to facilitate the task of the user in defining correspondences between ontologies entities. However, automatic matching is actually limited to the detection of simple one to one correspondences to be further refined by the user. We propose in this paper the use of correspondence patterns as a tool to assist the design of ontology alignments. Based on existing research on patterns in the fields of software and ontology engineering, we propose a pattern template as an helper to develop a correspondence patterns library. We give ways towards the representation of patterns using an appropriate correspondence representation formalism: the Alignment Ontology.

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Index Terms

Towards design patterns for ontology alignment
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Knowledge representation and reasoning
      1. Semantic networks
  2. Machine learning
    1. Machine learning approaches
      1. Rule learning
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features
        Patterns
    2. Software libraries and repositories
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Client-server architectures
      2. Software architectures

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