Similarity Identification and Measurement between Ontologies
Amjad Farooq, Abad Ali Shah · 2010
Abstract: The retrieval of relevant and precise information from web has always been remained a serious problem. To address this problem, the idea of ontologies-based web, so-called semantic web, was proposed in 2001. But the problem is not completely solved due to the semantic heterogeneity suffered by ontologies. In this paper we propose a semi-automatic technique to measure the explicit semantic heterogeneity. The proposed technique identifies all candidate pairs of similar concepts without omitting any similar pair. The proposed criteria for similarity measurement are based on theme semantic web. The proposed technique can be used in different types of operations on ontologies such as merging, mapping and aligning. By analyzing its results a reasonable improvement in terms of completeness, correctness and overall quality of the results has been found.. [Journal of American Science 2010; 6(4):67-85]. (ISSN: 1545-1003).