Domain-specific ontology mapping based on common property collection

Abstract

In order to improve the quality of ontology mapping, it's critical for researchers to take important information of ontology into account. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for ontology mapping by comparing the common properties of concepts in different ontologies. Our approach is to find the corresponding concepts based on the statistical information of the common properties. The property collections of concepts are obtained by defining a domain-specific property corpus, which contains all the properties most widely accepted. This enables us easily to detect common information for mapping. The experiment shows the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed approach is satisfactory. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.