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Comparing two ontologies

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Angela Eck Soong Goh,

Le Quang HungAuthors Info & Claims

International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology, Volume 5, Issue 1

Pages 48 - 68

https://doi.org/10.1504/IJWET.2009.025013

Published: 01 May 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Ontologies play an important role in applications related to knowledge management, natural language processing, information retrieval, etc. As a result, a large number of ontologies have been developed rapidly. Once an ontology is created, it can be used by many different applications. Such applications may use the entire ontology or only a part of it. Furthermore, they may use a part of the ontology and then extend it by adding more knowledge. Since ontologies which are used by different organisations may be related, there is a need to check these relationships. This paper presents an algorithm that compares two ontologies to determine their relationship. A semantic web service discovery application is introduced to highlight the motivation of the algorithm.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2878593.2878598

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International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology Volume 5, Issue 1

May 2009

129 pages

ISSN:1476-1289

EISSN:1741-9212

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Mechouche AAbadie NMustière S(2010)Alignment-based measure of the distance between potentially common parts of lightweight ontologiesProceedings of the 5th International Conference on Ontology Matching - Volume 68910.5555/2878593.2878598(49-60)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2878593.2878598

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