A Tool to Support Ontology Creation Based on Incremental Mini-Ontology Merging
Zonghui Lian · ScholarsArchive (Brigham Young University) · 2008
Abstract. This thesis will address the problem of tool support for semi-automatic ontology mapping and merging. Solving this problem can contribute to ontology creation and evolution by relieving users from tedious and time-consuming work. As proposed in the NSF-supported TANGO project [16], this work will show that a tool can be built that will take a light weight ontology and a growing ontology as input and make it possible to produce manually, semi-automatically, or automatically an extended growing ontology as output. Characteristics of this tool include: (1) a graphical, interactive user interface with features that will allow users to map and merge ontologies, and (2) a framework supporting pluggable, semi-automatic and automatic mapping and merging algorithms. 1