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A formal foundation for ontology alignment interaction models

A formal foundation for ontology alignment interaction models
A formal foundation for ontology alignment interaction models
Ontology alignment foundations are hard to find in the literature. The abstract nature of the topic and the diverse means of practice makes it difficult to capture it in a universal formal foundation. We argue that such a lack of formality hinders further development and convergence of practices, and in particular, prevents us from achieving greater levels of automation. In this article we present a formal foundation for ontology alignment that is based on interaction models between heterogeneous agents on the Semantic Web. We use the mathematical notion of information flow in a distributed system to ground our three hypotheses of enabling semantic interoperability and we use a motivating example throughout the article: how to progressively align two ontologies of research quality assessment through meaning coordination. We conclude the article with the presentation---in an executable specification language---of such an ontology-alignment interaction model.
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schorlemmer, marco
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Kalfoglou, Yannis
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attencia, Manuel
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schorlemmer, marco
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Kalfoglou, Yannis
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attencia, Manuel
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schorlemmer, marco, Kalfoglou, Yannis and attencia, Manuel (2007) A formal foundation for ontology alignment interaction models. International Journal of Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), 3 (2), 50-68.

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Ontology alignment foundations are hard to find in the literature. The abstract nature of the topic and the diverse means of practice makes it difficult to capture it in a universal formal foundation. We argue that such a lack of formality hinders further development and convergence of practices, and in particular, prevents us from achieving greater levels of automation. In this article we present a formal foundation for ontology alignment that is based on interaction models between heterogeneous agents on the Semantic Web. We use the mathematical notion of information flow in a distributed system to ground our three hypotheses of enabling semantic interoperability and we use a motivating example throughout the article: how to progressively align two ontologies of research quality assessment through meaning coordination. We conclude the article with the presentation---in an executable specification language---of such an ontology-alignment interaction model.

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Published date: April 2007
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 265030
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/265030
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Date deposited: 11 Jan 2008 15:57
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 08:01

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Author: marco schorlemmer
Author: Yannis Kalfoglou
Author: Manuel attencia

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