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Re: [ontolog-forum] Merging Service Ontologies to form Application Ontol

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From: "Rich Cooper" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:22:55 -0800
Message-id: <20100213182301.B1156138D23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

That paper below was written by Doug Foxvog (of this list) among others; it has an interesting overview algorithm section around the third page or so:

 

6. Building Application Ontologies

In order to build meaningful a (AO), a knowledge base,

a thesaurus or dictionary is necessary. WordNet is a quite

mature conceptual thesaurus with hierarchally structured

organisation and multiple semantic relations between concepts.

It is a good choice also due to its broad concept structure

of synonym sets.

 

6.1 Process of Building (AO)

We assume there are k semantic services from the same

application domain as the inputs of (AO) builder. As depicted

in Fig. 4, the building process is iterative including

following steps.

 

1. Initialize AO0 as an empty set, ;.

2. Import a SOi; 1 · i · k; re-organise it into the ontology

            [ my note: 1 <= i <= k  ]

 

structure defined by Definition 1.

 

3. For each concept of SOi, extract its relative concept

information from WordNet by the WCEA algorithm of

Section 6.2; add the retrieved information to SOi, then

get a new SO0i with more concept relations.

4. Merge SO0i and AOi¡1 using the WOMA algorithm

defined in Section 6.3 to obtain a new AOi.

5. Manage AOi, including cleaning concept conflicts,

updating and storing (see Section 6.4).

 

6. Repeat steps 2 to 5, until i = k, then stop.

The output of this process is an application ontology AOk,

which can be referred to by other service providers or users

to create new applications as depicted in Fig. 4.

 

 

 

This algorithm seems like a very useful place to start from if the list wants to consider how ontologies might be merged in daily practice.  

 

-Rich

 

Sincerely,

Rich Cooper

EnglishLogicKernel.com

Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com

 


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