A Multi-strategy Approach for Detecting and Correcting Conservativity Principle Violations in Ontology Alignments.
Alessandro Solimando, Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz, Giovanna Guerrini · CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) · 2014
In order to enable interoperability between ontology-based systems, ontology matching techniques have been proposed. However, when the generated mappings suffer from logical flaws, their usefulness may be diminished. In this paper we present a multi-strategy approach to detect and correct violations of the so-called conservativity principle where novel subsumption entailments between named concepts in one of the input ontologies are considered as unwanted. The practical applicability of the proposed approach is experimentally demonstrated on the datasets from the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI).