An automatic method for ontology mapping

Abstract

Ontology mapping is a precondition to achieve interoperability between agents or services using different ontologies. Today, a series of methods for ontology mapping have been reported. However in the existing literature, the focus has so far been on computing similarity and establishing equal mapping relation. In practice, it is possible to have other mapping relations besides equal mapping, such as subclass mapping relation. In this paper a new method for ontology mapping, FCA-Mapping, is presented. FCAMapping is based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) theory. By computing relation measures between entities of different ontologies, it can automatically establish equal and subclass mapping relations. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.