• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.319-336
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• 2009

Semantic web technology is the evolution of current World Wide Web including a machine-understandable knowledge database, ontology, it may be enable machine and people to work together. However, problems arise when we try to communicate with different data, which are annotated by different ontologies created by different people with different concepts. Thus, to communicate between ontologies, it needs to align between heterogeneous ontologies. When it is aligned between concept nodes of heterogeneous ontologies, one of main problems is a misalignment situation caused by false negative of automatic ontology mapping. So, in this paper, we present a new method to minimize the false negative error in the process of aligning concept nodes of different ontology.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.23-30
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• 2004

Ontologies play an important role in the Semantic Web by providing well-defined meaning to ontology consumers. But as the ontologies are authored in a bottom-up distributed mimer, a large number of overlapping ontologies are created and used for the similar domains. Ontology sharing and reuse have become a distinguished topic, and ontology merging and alignment are the solutions for the problem. Ontology merging and alignment algorithms previously proposed detect conflicts between concepts by making use of only local syntactic information of concept names. And they depend only on a semi-automatic approach, which makes ontology engineers tedious. Consequently, the quality of merging and alignment tends to be unsatisfying. To remedy the defects of the previous algorithms, we propose a new algorithm for ontology merging and alignment which uses local and global semantic set of a concept. We evaluated our algorithm with several pairs of ontologies written in OWL, and achieved around 91% of precision in merging and alignment. We expect that, with the widespread use of web ontology, the need for ontology sharing and reuse ill become higher, and our proposed algorithm can significantly reduce the time required for ontology development. And also, our algorithm can easily be applied to various fields such as ontology mapping where semantic information exchange is a requirement.