An empirical comparison of ontology matching techniques

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-397

  Alasoud, Ahmed ^a   Haarslev, Volker ^a   Shiri, Nematollaah ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ontology matching; Performance; Semantic web; Similarity measures

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL COMPARISON; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; MATCHING PROCESS; MATCHING TECHNIQUES; ONTOLOGY MATCHING; PERFORMANCE; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; SEMANTIC CORRESPONDENCE; SIMILARITY MEASURES; STRUCTURE MATCHING;

SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 68249149047     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551508100383     Document Type: Article

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