Building Shared Ontologies for Terminology Integration
Gerhard Schuster, Heiner Stuckenschmidt · 2001
. We present an approach for developing shared ontologies which can be used to define terms from di#erent vocabularies and to automatically translate them from one vocabulary into another. We first motivate the use of shared ontologies as a means for identifying semantic correspondences between terms and underline the need for a shared ontology. Then, the general steps of a specialized methodology for building such shared ontologies are described. We further illustrate the application of the methodology using a real-life example from the domain of geo-informatics. 1