Ontology Mapping: The State of the Art

Semantic Interoperability and Integration

计算机科学;物理学

Yannis Kalfoglou ; Marco

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PID  :  7335

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Ontology mapping is seen as a solution provider in today’s landscape of ontology research. As the number of ontologies that are made publicly available and accessible on the Web increases steadily, so does the need for applications to use them. A single ontology is no longer enough to support the tasks envisaged by a distributed environment like the Semantic Web. Multiple ontologies need to be accessed from several applications. Mapping could provide a common layer from which several ontologies could be accessed and hence could exchange information in se- mantically sound manners. Developing such mappings has been the focus of a variety of works originating from diverse communities over a num- ber of years. In this article we comprehensively review and present these works. We also provide insights on the pragmatics of ontology mapping and elaborate on a theoretical approach for defining ontology mapping.