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Identification and resolution of conflicts during ontological integration using rules
Authors:Yevgen Biletskiy  Girish R Ranganathan  Olga Vorochek
Affiliation:1. University of New Brunswick, 15 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3, Canada
Email: biletski.ranganathan@unb.ca, girish.ranganathan@unb.ca;2. Kharkiv National University of Radio‐Electronics, 14 Lenin Avenue, Kharkiv 61066, Ukraine
Email: relf@kture.kharkov.ua
Abstract:Abstract: Integration of ontologies of information sources and consumers is an important phase in achieving web‐based interoperability. The present work describes an approach for identifying certain semantic conflicts while integrating ontologies of heterogeneous information sources. This paper is focused on the identification of homonymy and synonymy between elements in ontologies. In the present work the concepts of homonymy and synonymy are synonymous to naming conflicts and entity identifier conflicts, respectively, and partial synonymy is synonymous to schema isomorphism conflicts. The concept of the mask of interoperability is introduced for the identification of synonymy. The mask of interoperability is expressed in a declarative way as a set of rules, which can then be used for resolution of conflicts during integration of ontologies. As proof of concept, ontologies are implemented using the XML‐based ontology language Ontology Web Language (OWL), and the rules are implemented using the emerging rule language Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL). This representation in OWL and SWRL allows the ontology to be executable, flexibly extendable and platform‐independent. The OWL facts and SWRL rules are used by the Jess and Bossam reasoning engine to identify semantic homonymy and synonymy.
Keywords:interoperability  ontology  semantic conflicts  OWL  SWRL
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