Measuring the structural preservation of semantic hierarchy alignments
Cliff Joslyn, Patrick R. Paulson, Amanda W. White · International Conference on Ontology Matching · 2009
We present a method to measure the amount of structural distortion carried by an alignment between two taxonomic cores of ontologies represented as semantic hierarchies. We present our formalism based in metric order theory. We then illustrate the results of such an analysis on the Anatomy track of the 2008 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI).