Assessing Similarity Between Ontologies : The Case of the Conceptual Similarity
Ngonengom Aly, Kaladzavi Guidedi, Fatou Kamara-Sangaré, Kolyang, Moussa Lô · International journal of Web & Semantic Technology · 2018
In ontology engineering, there are many cases where assessing similarity between ontologies is required, this is the case of the alignment activities, ontology evolutions, ontology similarities, etc.This paper presents a new method for assessing similarity between concepts of ontologies.The method is based on the set theory, edges and feature similarity.We first determine the set of concepts that is shared by two ontologies and the sets of concepts that are different from them.Then, we evaluate the average value of similarity for each set by using edges-based semantic similarity.Finally, we compute similarity between ontologies by using average values of each set and by using feature-based similarity measure too.