Ontology Alignment Bridging the Semantic Gap /

• Main Author: Ehrig, Marc (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2007.
• Series: Semantic Web and Beyond, Computing for Human Experience, 4
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Computers.; Multimedia information systems.; Artificial intelligence.; E-commerce.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).; Information Systems and Communication Service.; Multimedia Information Systems.; e-Commerce/e-business.

A large number of information systems use many different individual schemas to represent data. Semantically linking these schemas is a necessary precondition to establish interoperability between agents and services. Consequently, ontology alignment and mapping for data integration has become centra...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and Overview: Motivation, Contribution, Overview
• Foundations: Ontology, Ontology Alignment, Further Terms, Ontology Similarity, Use Cases, Requirements
• Related Work: Theory of Alignment, Existing Alignment Approaches
• Alignment Process: General Ontology Alignment Process, Alignment Approach, Process for Related Approaches, Evaluation
• Advanced Novel Methods: Efficiency, Machine Learning, Active Alignment, Adaptive Alignment, Integrated Approach
• Tools and Applications: Basic Infrastructure, Ontology Mapping Based on Axioms, Ontology Engineering Platform, Semantic Web and Peer-to-Peer (SWAP), Semantically Enabled Knowledge Technologies (SEKT)
• Next Steps: Generalization, Complex Alignments, Completeness of Alignments, Outlook
• Conclusion: Content Summary, Assessment of Contributions, Final Statements.