Title: Ontology construction using online ontologies based on selection, mapping and merging

Authors: Jungmin Kim, Pankoo Kim, Hyunsook Chung

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, Daejin University, Sundan 11-1, Pocheon, Gyounggi 487-711, South Korea. ' Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Suseok 375, Gwangju 501-759, South Korea. ' Department of Computer Engineering, Chosun University, Suseok 375, Gwangju 501-759, South Korea

Abstract: The reuse of ontologies existing on the Web should be required to speed up ontology construction process. However, current ontology mapping approaches assume that two input ontologies are given not discovered from available semantic data of the web. In this paper, we present a new approach, which integrates ontology selection, mapping, and merging processes in order to minimise human mediation. Our ontology selection mechanism accepts a hand-crafted ontology as query ontology to search already constructed relevant ontologies. In addition, we develop a ranking method based on syntactic and semantic structure of classes to provide the best search result to the user.

Keywords: ontology construction; online ontologies; ontology search; ranking; ontology matching; ontology mapping; ontology merging; ontology reuse; topic maps; OWL.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2011.040447

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2011 Vol.7 No.2, pp.170 - 189

Published online: 17 Apr 2015 *

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