XML Schema Matching based on Ontology Update for the Transformation of XML Documents
Kyong-Ho Lee, Jun-Seung Lee · 2006
Schema matching is important as a prerequisite to the transformation of XML documents. This paper presents a schema matching method for the transformation of XML documents. The proposed method consists of two steps: preliminary matching relationships between leaf nodes in the two XML schemas are computed based on proposed ontology and leaf node similarity, and final matchings are extracted based on a proposed path similarity. Particularly, for a sophisticated schema matching, the proposed ontology is incrementally updated by users' feedback. furthermore, since the ontology can describe various relationships between concepts, the proposed method can compute complex matchings as well as simple matchings. Experimental results with schemas used in various domains show that the proposed method is superior to previous works, resulting in a precision of 97% and a recall of 83 % on the average. Furthermore, the dynamic ontology increased by 9 percent overall.