This paper describes an automatic algorithm of meaning negotiation that enables emantic interoperability between local overlapping and heterogeneous ontologies. Rather than reconciling differences between heterogeneous ontologies, this algorithm searches for mappings between concepts of different ontologies. The algorithm is composed of three main steps: (i) computing the linguistic meaning of the label occurring in the ontologies via natural language processing, (ii9 contextualizatio of such a linguistic meaning by considering the context, i.e. the ontologies, where a label occurs; (iii) comparing contextualized linguistic meaning of two ontologies in order to find a possible matching between them
Using NLP Techniques for Meaning Negotiation
Magnini, Bernardo;Serafini, Luciano;Speranza, Manuela
2002-01-01
Abstract
This paper describes an automatic algorithm of meaning negotiation that enables emantic interoperability between local overlapping and heterogeneous ontologies. Rather than reconciling differences between heterogeneous ontologies, this algorithm searches for mappings between concepts of different ontologies. The algorithm is composed of three main steps: (i) computing the linguistic meaning of the label occurring in the ontologies via natural language processing, (ii9 contextualizatio of such a linguistic meaning by considering the context, i.e. the ontologies, where a label occurs; (iii) comparing contextualized linguistic meaning of two ontologies in order to find a possible matching between themI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
