This paper proposes a checking method based on mutual instances and discusses three key problems in the method： how to deal with mistakes in the mutual instances and how to deal with too many or too few mutual instances. It provides the checking based on the weighted mutual instances considering fault tolerance, gives a way to partition the large-scale mutual instances, and proposes a process greatly reducing the manual annotation work to get more mutual instances. Intension annotation that improves the checking method is also discussed. The method is practical and effective to check subsumption relations between concept queries in different ontologies based on mutual instances.
KANG Da-zhouLU Jian-jiangXU Bao-wenWANG PengZHOU Jin
Fuzzy ontologics are efficient tools to handle fuzzy and uncertain knowledge on the semantic web; but there are heterogeneity problems when gaining interoperability among different fuzzy ontologies. This paper uses concept approximation between fuzzy ontologies based on instances to solve the heterogeneity problems. It firstly proposes an instance selection technology based on instance clustering and weighting to unify the fuzzy interpretation of different ontologies and reduce the number of instances to increase the efficiency. Then the paper resolves the problem of computing the approximations of concepts into the problem of computing the least upper approximations of atom concepts. It optimizes the search strategies by extending atom concept sets and defining the least upper bounds of concepts to reduce the searching space of the problem. An efficient algorithm for searching the least upper bounds of concept is given.
LI Yan-huiXU Bao-wenLU Jian-jiangKANG Da-zhouZHOU Jing-jing
A new mapping approach for automated ontology mapping using web search engines （such as Google） is presented. Based on lexico-syntactic patterns, the hyponymy relationships between ontology concepts can be obtained from the web by search engines and an initial candidate mapping set consisting of ontology concept pairs is generated. According to the concept hierarchies of ontologies, a set of production rules is proposed to delete the concept pairs inconsistent with the ontology semantics from the initial candidate mapping set and add the concept pairs consistent with the ontology semantics to it. Finally, ontology mappings are chosen from the candidate mapping set automatically with a mapping select rule which is based on mutual information. Experimental results show that the F-measure can reach 75% to 100% and it can effectively accomplish the mapping between ontologies.
