Testing the impact of pattern-based ontology refactoring on ontology matching results

Ondřej Šváb-Zamazal, Vojtěch Svátek, Christian Meilicke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2008

We observe the impact of ontology refactoring, based on detection of name patterns in the ontology structure, on the results of ontology matching.Results of our experiment are evaluated using novel logic-based measures accompanied by an analysis of typical effects.Although the pattern detection method only covers a fraction of ontological errors, there seems to be a measurable effect on the quality of the resulting matching.

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