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Procedure Based on Semantic Similarity for Merging Ontologies by Non-Redundant Knowledge Enrichment

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  • Carlos Ramón Rangel

    (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)

  • Junior Altamiranda

    (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)

  • Mariela Cerrada

    (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador)

  • Jose Aguilar

    (Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)

Abstract

The merging procedures of two ontologies are mostly related to the enrichment of one of the input ontologies, i.e. the knowledge of the aligned concepts from one ontology are copied into the other ontology. As a consequence, the resulting new ontology extends the original knowledge of the base ontology, but the unaligned concepts of the other ontology are not considered in the new extended ontology. On the other hand, there are experts-aided semi-automatic approaches to accomplish the task of including the knowledge that is left out from the resulting merged ontology and debugging the possible concept redundancy. With the aim of facing the posed necessity of including all the knowledge of the ontologies to be merged without redundancy, this article proposes an automatic approach for merging ontologies, which is based on semantic similarity measures and exhaustive searching along of the closest concepts. The authors' approach was compared to other merging algorithms, and good results are obtained in terms of completeness, relationships and properties, without creating redundancy.

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  • Carlos Ramón Rangel & Junior Altamiranda & Mariela Cerrada & Jose Aguilar, 2018. "Procedure Based on Semantic Similarity for Merging Ontologies by Non-Redundant Knowledge Enrichment," International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM), IGI Global, vol. 14(2), pages 16-36, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jkm000:v:14:y:2018:i:2:p:16-36
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