A CORRESPONDENCE REPAIR ALGORITHM BASED ON WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION AND UPPER ONTOLOGIES

Angela Locoro, Viviana Mascardi

2009

Abstract

Abstract: In an ideal world, an ontology matching algorithm should return all the correct correspondences (it should be complete) and should return no wrong correspondences (it should be correct). In the real world, no implemented ontology matching algorithm is both correct and complete. For this reason, repairing wrong correspondences in an ontology alignment is a very pressing need to obtain more accurate alignments. This paper discusses an automatic correspondence repair method that exploits both upper ontologies to provide informative context to concepts cϵo and c'ϵo' belonging to an alignment a, and a context-based word sense disambiguation algorithm to assign c and c' their correct meaning. This meaning is used to decide whether c and c' are related, and to either keep or discard the correspondence < c;c' >ϵa, namely, to repair a. The experiments carried on are presented and the obtained results are provided. The advantages of the approach we propose are confirmed by a total average gain of 11,5% in precision for the alignments repaired against a 2% total average error.

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Locoro A. and Mascardi V. (2009). A CORRESPONDENCE REPAIR ALGORITHM BASED ON WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION AND UPPER ONTOLOGIES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-012-2, pages 239-246. DOI: 10.5220/0002302802390246


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@conference{keod09,
author={Angela Locoro and Viviana Mascardi},
title={A CORRESPONDENCE REPAIR ALGORITHM BASED ON WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION AND UPPER ONTOLOGIES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={239-246},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002302802390246},
isbn={978-989-674-012-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2009)
TI - A CORRESPONDENCE REPAIR ALGORITHM BASED ON WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION AND UPPER ONTOLOGIES
SN - 978-989-674-012-2
AU - Locoro A.
AU - Mascardi V.
PY - 2009
SP - 239
EP - 246
DO - 10.5220/0002302802390246