Title: An argumentation framework based on confidence degrees to combine ontology mapping approaches

Authors: C. Trojahn, P. Quaresma, R. Vieira

Addresses: Departamento de Informatica, Universidade de Evora, Evora, Portugal. ' Departamento de Informatica, Universidade de Evora, Evora, Portugal. ' Faculdade de Informatica, Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Abstract: Ontology mapping has a key importance for applications such as information retrieval, database integration, and agent-communication. This paper presents an Argumentation Framework, with confidence degrees associated to the arguments, to combine ontology mapping approaches. Our agents apply individual mapping algorithms and cooperate in order to exchange their local results (arguments). Based on their preferences and confidence of the arguments, the agents compute their preferred mapping sets. The arguments in such preferred sets are viewed as the set of globally acceptable arguments. The model is evaluated using a benchmark for ontology mapping. The results are promising especially what concerns precision.

Keywords: argumentation framework; ontology mapping; mapping approaches; confidence degrees.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2008.021892

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, 2008 Vol.3 No.2, pp.142 - 150

Published online: 08 Dec 2008 *

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