Automatic ontology matching via upper ontologies: A systematic evaluation

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 609-623

  Mascardi, Viviana ^a   Locoro, Angela ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ontology matching; Upper ontology

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ONTOLOGY MATCHING; COMPOSITE CONCEPT; F-MEASURE; MATCHING ALGORITHM; MATCHING METHODS; MIXED METHOD; ONTOLOGY MATCHING; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION; UPPER ONTOLOGY;

ALIGNMENT; EXPERIMENTS;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 77950020417     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2009.154     Document Type: Article

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