UFOme: A User Friendly Ontology MappingEnvironment

4th Italian Semantic Web Workshop

Giuseppe Pirrò1 ; Domenico Talia1

PID  :  79602

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Recently the Ontology Mapping Problem (OMP) has been identified as a key factor towards the success of the Semantic Web and relatedapplications. This problem arises since it is possible for different people to give,through ontologies, different conceptualizations of the same (or overlapping)knowledge domain. In order to tackle the OMP several algorithms have beendesigned. They aim at discovering correspondences (aka mappings) betweenontology entities. However, these algorithms mostly suffer from the followingshortcomings: (i) do not allow to quickly combine and/or compare differentmapping strategies; (ii) do not offer support for evaluating mapping strategies interms of quality of results and performance. In this paper we present a plugin based system called UFOme along with its current implementation. Weillustrate how it can be exploited to graphically design mapping tasks byconnecting different types of modules. UFOme provides three categories ofmodules. The first one (i.e., visualization) allows to explore the ontologies to bemapped. The second one (i.e., matching) provides different types of individualmatchers, exploited to discover mappings between ontologies, and a module forcombining them. The third one (i.e., evaluation) enables to evaluate eachmodule of the mapping task, a sub mapping task, or the mapping task in thewhole w.r.t performance and quality of results.