FalconAO: Aligning Ontologies with Falcon.
Ningsheng Jian, Wei Ping Hu, Gong Cheng, Yuzhong Qu · 2005
Falcon-AO is an automatic tool for aligning ontologies. There are two matchers integrated in Falcon-AO: one is a matcher based on linguistic matching for ontologies, called LMO; the other is a matcher based on graph matching for ontologies, called GMO. In Falcon-AO, GMO takes the alignments generated by LMO as exter-nal input and outputs additional alignments. Reliable alignments are gained through LMO as well as GMO according to the concept of reliability. The reliabil-ity is obtained by observing the linguistic comparability and structural comparability of the two ontologies be-ing compared. We have performed Falcon-AO on tests provided by OAEI 2005 campaign and got some prelim-inary results. In this paper, we describe the architec-ture and techniques of Falcon-AO in brief and present our results in more details. Finally, comments about test cases and lessons learnt from the campaign will be presented.