Semantic Mapping of Terms Based on Their Ontological Definitions and Similarities

온톨로지 기반의 용어 정의 비교 및 유사도를 고려한 의미 매핑

  • 정원철 (LG생산기술연구원 시스템 기술그룹) ;
  • 이재현 (한국과학기술원 산업공학과) ;
  • 서효원 (한국과학기술원 산업공학과)
  • Published : 2006.06.01

Abstract

In collaborative environment, it is necessary that the participants in collaboration should share the same understanding about the semantics of terms. For example, they should know that 'COMPONENT' and 'ITEM' are different word-expressions for the same meaning. In order to handle such problems in information sharing, an information system needs to automatically recognize that the terms have the same semantics. So we develop an algorithm mapping two terms based on their ontological definitions and their similarities. The proposed algorithm consists of four steps: the character matching, the inferencing, the definition comparing and the similarity checking. In the similarity checking step, we consider relation similarity and hierarchical similarity. The algorithm is very primitive, but it shows the possibility of semi-automatic mapping using ontology. In addition, we design a mapping procedure for a mapping system, called SOM (semantic ontology mapper).

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