Effective information sharing using concept mapping

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a concept mapping method that can be used to find relations among concepts of different ontology. In order to find the relevant relation, this method uses three kinds of knowledge types such as lexical knowledge, domain knowledge and structure information. When the relations are retrieved, each relation is evaluated by comparing instances of each concept which is involved in that relation. With this method, the concept of one ontology can be mapped to other concept of the other ontology, which enables information sharing. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.