Merging sub-ontologies
by Andrew Flahive; David Taniar; Wenny Rahayu
International Journal of Web and Grid Services (IJWGS), Vol. 10, No. 2/3, 2014

Abstract: Ontologies, such as UMLS and WordNet, are generally very large, and are normally the source of more specialised and smaller ontologies tailored for a certain application. It is natural that the source ontologies be multiple large ontologies, each of which is extracted, and then merged to create a smaller and tailored ontology for a specific domain. Therefore, extracting sub-ontologies as well as merging them is a primary process. In this paper, we propose sub-ontology extraction and merging, whereby multiple sub-ontologies are extracted from various source ontologies and then these extracted sub-ontologies are merged to form a complete ontology to be used by the user. We use the maximum extraction method to facilitate this. A walkthrough case study using the UMLS meta-thesaurus ontology is also presented.

Online publication date: Wed, 29-Oct-2014

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