An Information Retrieval Based Approach for Multilingual Ontology Matching

Andi Rexha*, Mauro Dragoni, Roman Kern, Mark Kröll

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Abstract

Ontology matching in a multilingual environment consists of finding alignments between ontologies modeled by using more than one language. Such a research topic combines traditional ontology matching algorithms with the use of multilingual resources, services, and capabilities for easing multilingual matching. In this paper, we present a multilingual ontology matching approach based on Information Retrieval (IR) techniques: ontologies are indexed through an inverted index algorithm and candidate matches are found by querying such indexes. We also exploit the hierarchical structure of the ontologies by adopting the PageRank algorithm for our system. The approaches have been evaluated using a set of domain-specific ontologies belonging to the agricultural and medical domain. We compare our results with existing systems following an evaluation strategy closely resembling a recommendation scenario. The version of our system using PageRank showed an increase in performance in our evaluations.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Pages433 - 439
ISBN (Electronic)978-331941753-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems: NLDB 2016 - Salford, United Kingdom
Duration: 22 Jun 201624 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9612
ISSN (Electronic)0302-9743

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CitySalford
Period22/06/1624/06/16

Fields of Expertise

  • Information, Communication & Computing

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