An experience with ontology clustering for information integration
Pepijn R. S. Visser, Valentina A. M. Tamma · 1999
This article presents a structure of multiple shared ontologies to integrate heterogeneous sources. This structure is intended to be easy to implement to maintain and to scale, and also close to the human model of conceptualisation. The structure has been investigate in a small scale experiment set in the domain of the international coffee preparation. The coffee-preparing domain is attractive as it serves to illustrate that different communities may share knowledge at different abstraction levels. 1 Introduction In this article we discuss a small-scale experiment investigating an architectures for the integration of heterogeneous resources. In this architecture resources are clustered on the basis of the resemblance between their conceptualisations of their domains. One of the motivating ideas is that - as with inter-person interaction - resources with a similar conceptualisation can have more 'in-depth' conversations than those who share less of their conceptualisation. Th...