An interactive, asymmetric and extensional method for matching conceptual hierarchies

Open Interop Workshop on Enterprise Modelling and Ontologies for Interoperability

Jérõme David ; Fabrice Guillet ; Régis Gras ; Henri Briand

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Our work deals with schema or ontology matching and is driven by the following statements: (1) Most of works only consider in- tensional description of schemas; (2) They mostly use symmetric sim- ilarity measures (and then they match similarity relations betwen con- cepts); (3) Few prototypes allow an interactive and visual match process. Therefore, we suggest an extensional and asymmetric matching method based on the discovery of significant implication rules between concepts described in textual documents. Our approach relies on the association rules paradigm and use a probabilistic model of deviation from indepen- dence, named implication intensity. Our matching method is divided into two consecutive stages: (1) the extraction in documents of relevant terms for each concept; (2) the discovery of significant implications between the concepts. And finally, we enclose this matching approach into an inter- active visualization tool in order to facilitate the analyse, the validation and the editing of a mapping set for the knowledge engineer.