Detection of Contextual Identity Links in a Knowledge Base
Joe Raad, Nathalie Pernelle, Fatiha Saïs · 2017
Most of the Linked Data applications currently rely on the use of owl: sameAs for linking ontology instances. However, several studies have noticed multiple misuses of this identity link. These misuses, which are mainly caused by the lack of other well-defined linking alternatives, can lead to erroneous statements or inconsistencies. We propose in this paper a new contextual identity link: identiConTo that could serve as a replacement for owl: sameAs in linking identical instances in a specified context. To detect these contextual links, we have defined an algorithm named DECIDE that has been tested on scientific knowledge bases describing transformation processes.