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Zamazal, Ondřej. "Pattern-based Ontology Matching and Ontology Alignment Evaluation." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2006. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77051.
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Ontology Matching is one of the hottest topic within the Semantic Web of recent years. There is still ample of space for improvement in terms of performance. Furthermore, current ontology matchers mostly concentrate on simple entity to entity matching. However, matching of whole structures could bring some additional complex relationships. These structures of ontologies can be captured as ontology patterns. The main theme of this thesis is an examination of pattern-based ontology matching enhanced with ontology transformation and pattern-based ontology alignment evaluation. The former is examined due to its potential benefits regarding complex matching and matching as such. The latter is examined because complex hypotheses could be beneficial feedback as complement to traditional evaluation methods. These two tasks are related to four different topics: ontology patterns, ontology transformation, ontology alignment evaluation and ontology matching. With regard to those four topics, this work covers the following aspects: * Examination of different aspects of ontology patterns. Particularly, description of relevant ontology patterns for ontology transformation and for ontology matching (such as naming, matching and transformation patterns). * Description of a pattern-based method for ontology transformation. * Introduction of new methods for an alignment evaluation; including using patterns as a complex structures for more detailed analysis. * Experiments and demonstrations of new concepts introduced in this thesis. The thesis first introduces naming pattern and matching pattern classification on which ontology transformation framework is based. Naming patterns are useful for detection of ontology patterns and for generation of new names for entities. Matching patterns are basis for transformation patterns in terms of sharing some building blocks. In comparison with matching patterns, transformation patterns have transformation links that represent way how parts of ontology patterns are transformed. Besides several evaluations and implementations, the thesis provides a demonstration of getting complex matching due to ontology transformation process. Ontology transformation framework has been implemented in Java environment where all generic patterns are represented as corresponding Java objects. Three main implemented services are made generally available as RESTful services: ontology pattern detection, transformation instruction generation and ontology transformation.
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Ivanova, Valentina. "Fostering User Involvement in Ontology Alignment and Alignment Evaluation." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Databas och informationsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-143034.
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The abundance of data at our disposal empowers data-driven applications and decision making. The knowledge captured in the data, however, has not been utilized to full potential, as it is only accessible to human interpretation and data are distributed in heterogeneous repositories. Ontologies are a key technology unlocking the knowledge in the data by providing means to model the world around us and infer knowledge implicitly captured in the data. As data are hosted by independent organizations we often need to use several ontologies and discover the relationships between them in order to support data and knowledge transfer. Broadly speaking, while ontologies provide formal representations and thus the basis, ontology alignment supplies integration techniques and thus the means to turn the data kept in distributed, heterogeneous repositories into valuable knowledge. While many automatic approaches for creating alignments have already been developed, user input is still required for obtaining the highest-quality alignments. This thesis focuses on supporting users during the cognitively intensive alignment process and makes several contributions. We have identified front- and back-end system features that foster user involvement during the alignment process and have investigated their support in existing systems by user interface evaluations and literature studies. We have further narrowed down our investigation to features in connection to the, arguably, most cognitively demanding task from the users’ perspective—manual validation—and have also considered the level of user expertise by assessing the impact of user errors on alignments’ quality. As developing and aligning ontologies is an error-prone task, we have focused on the benefits of the integration of ontology alignment and debugging. We have enabled interactive comparative exploration and evaluation of multiple alignments at different levels of detail by developing a dedicated visual environment—Alignment Cubes—which allows for alignments’ evaluation even in the absence of reference alignments. Inspired by the latest technological advances we have investigated and identified three promising directions for the application of large, high-resolution displays in the field: improving the navigation in the ontologies and their alignments, supporting reasoning and collaboration between users.
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Ivanova, Valentina. "Integration of Ontology Alignment and Ontology Debugging for Taxonomy Networks." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Databas och informationsteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-102953.
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Semantically-enabled applications, such as ontology-based search and data integration, take into account the semantics of the input data in their algorithms. Such applications often use ontologies, which model the application domains in question, as well as alignments, which provide information about the relationships between the terms in the different ontologies. The quality and reliability of the results of such applications depend directly on the correctness and completeness of the ontologies and alignments they utilize. Traditionally, ontology debugging discovers defects in ontologies and alignments and provides means for improving their correctness and completeness, while ontology alignment establishes the relationships between the terms in the different ontologies, thus addressing completeness of alignments. This thesis focuses on the integration of ontology alignment and debugging for taxonomy networks which are formed by taxonomies, the most widely used kind of ontologies, connected through alignments. The contributions of this thesis include the following. To the best of our knowledge, we have developed the first approach and framework that integrate ontology alignment and debugging, and allow debugging of modelling defects both in the structure of the taxonomies as well as in their alignments. As debugging modelling defects requires domain knowledge, we have developed algorithms that employ the domain knowledge intrinsic to the network to detect and repair modelling defects. Further, a system has been implemented and several experiments with real-world ontologies have been performed in order to demonstrate the advantages of our integrated ontology alignment and debugging approach. For instance, in one of the experiments with the well-known ontologies and alignment from the Anatomy track in Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative 2010, 203 modelling defects (concerning incomplete and incorrect information) were discovered and repaired.
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Ehrig, Marc. "Ontology alignment : bridging the semantic gap /." New York, NY : Springer, 2007. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0707/2006928852.html.
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McCurdy, Helena Brooke. "WikiMatcher: Leveraging Wikipedia for Ontology Alignment." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1461710743.
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Souza, Bernardo Severo de. "An adaptative approach for ontology alignment visualization." Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul, 2017. http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7471.
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O aumento do volume de dados n?o estruturados na Web nas ?ltimas d?cadas tem sido impulsionado pelo surgimento de novos meios de comunica??o, dispositivos e tecnologias. Neste contexto se desenvolve a Web Sem?ntica, cujo objetivo ? o de atribuir uma camada de representa??o de conhecimento a esses dados, facilitando o tratamento por processos automatizados. Ontologias s?o elementos chave da Web Sem?ntica, oferecendo uma descri??o dos conceitos e dos relacionamentos entre os mesmos para um dom?nio espec?fico. Entretanto, ontologias de um mesmo dom?nio podem divergir em sua estrutura, granularidade ou terminologia, necessitando que um processo de mapeamento entre as mesmas seja realizado, produzindo um conjunto de correspond?ncias entre entidades semanticamente relacionadas (alinhamento). Um n?mero crescente de abordagens de mapeamento tem surgido na literatura e a necessidade de avaliar e comparar qualitativamente os alinhamentos produzidos se faz presente. Tarefas que fazem uso de alinhamentos passaram a demandar melhores representa??es gr?ficas dos mesmos. Neste contexto, foi realizada uma pesquisa com especialistas em alinhamentos para identificar os aspectos mais importantes em uma visualiza??o de alinhamentos. Este trabalho apresenta ent?o uma abordagem adaptativa de visualiza??o para alinhamentos, que permite ao usu?rio escolher como e o que visualizar, de acordo com prefer?ncias pr?prias ou para uma atividade sendo realizada no momento (cria??o, manipula??o, avalia??o, etc.). Por fim, um prot?tipo foi constru?do com o intuito de validar a solu??o. Os resultados obtidos da avalia??o dos usu?rios com o prot?tipo mostram que a abordagem lida com os problemas que se prop?e a resolver, com uma margem para trabalhos futuros em formas de visualiza??o de alinhamentos.
The increase in the volume of unstructured web data in recent decades has been driven by the arising of new media, devices and technologies. In this context, the Semantic Web was developed, whose objective is to provide a layer of knowledge representation to that data, facilitating the treatment by automated processes. Ontologies are key elements of the Semantic Web, providing a description of the concepts and relationships between them, for a specific domain. However, ontologies of the same domain may differ in structure, granularity or terminology, requiring a process of matching between them to be performed, producing a set of correspondences between semantically related entities (alignment). A growing number of matching approaches have emerged in the literature, and the need to evaluate and qualitatively compare the produced alignments is presented. Tasks that make use of alignments started to demand better graphical representations for it. In this context, a survey was conducted with alignment specialists to identify the most important aspects in an alignment visualization. This work presents an adaptative approach for alignment visualization, that allows users to choose how and what to visualize, according to their own preferences or the task being performed at that moment (creation, manipulation, evaluation, etc.). Finally, a prototype was built with the purpose of validating the solution. The results obtained from the prototype validation with users show that the approach handles the problems it proposes to solve, with a margin for future work on alignment visualization.
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Boujari, Tahereh. "Instance-based ontology alignment using decision trees." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-84918.
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Using ontologies is a key technology in the semantic web. The semantic web helps people to store their data on the web, build vocabularies, and has written rules for handling these data and also helps the search engines to distinguish between the information they want to access in web easier. In order to use multiple ontologies created by different experts we need matchers to find the similar concepts in them to use it to merge these ontologies. Text based searches use the string similarity functions to find the equivalent concepts inside ontologies using their names.This is the method that is used in lexical matchers. But a global standard for naming the concepts in different research area does not exist or has not been used. The same name may refer to different concepts while different names may describe the same concept. To solve this problem we can use another approach for calculating the similarity value between concepts which is used in structural and constraint-based matchers. It uses relations between concepts, synonyms and other information that are stored in the ontologies. Another category for matchers is instance-based that uses additional information like documents related to the concepts of ontologies, the corpus, to calculate the similarity value for the concepts. Decision trees in the area of data mining are used for different kind of classification for different purposes. Using decision trees in an instance-based matcher is the main concept of this thesis. The results of this implemented matcher using the C4.5 algorithm are discussed. The matcher is also compared to other matchers. It also is used for combination with other matchers to get a better result.
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Carbonetto, Andrew August. "Ontology alignment in the presence of a domain ontology : finding protein homology." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/821.
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Cheap electronic storage and Internet bandwidth has increased the amount of online data. Large quantities of metadata are created to manage this wealth of information. Methods to organize and structure metadata has led to the development of ontologies - data that is organized to describe the relation between elements. The creation of large ontologies has brought forth the need for ontology management strategies. Ontology alignment and merging techniques are standard operations for ontology management. Accurate ontology alignment methods are typically semi-automatic, meaning they require periodic user input. This becomes infeasible on large ontologies and the accuracy and efficiency drops significantly when these algorithms are forced to align without human interaction. Bioinformatics, for example, has seen the influx of large ontologies, such as signal pathway sets with thousands of elements or protein-protein interaction (PPI) databases with hundreds of thousands of elements. This drives the need for a reliable method of large-scale ontology alignment.
Many bioinformatics ontologies contain references to domain ontologies - manually curated ontologies describing additional, general information about the terms in the ontologies. For example, more than 2/3 of proteins in PPI data sets contain at least one annotation to the domain ontology the Gene Ontology. We use the domain ontology references as features to compute similarity between elements. However, there are few efficient ways to compute similarity from structured features. We present a novel, automatic method for aligning ontologies based on such domain ontology features.
Specifically, we use simulated annealing to reduce the complexity of the domain ontologys structure by finding approximate relevant clusters of elements. An intermediate step performs hierarchical clustering based on the similarity between elements of the ontology. Then the mapping between clusters across aligning ontologies is built. The final step builds an alignment between matched clusters.
To evaluate our methods, we perform an alignment between Human (Homo Sapiens) and Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) signal pathways provided by the Reactome database. The results were compared against reliable homology studies of proteins. The final mapping produces alignments that are significantly more accurate than the traditional ontology alignment methods, without any human involvement.
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Taye, Mohammad Mustafa. "Ontology alignment mechanisms for improving web-based searching." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/2423.
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Ontology has been developed to offer a commonly agreed understanding of a domain that is required for knowledge representation, knowledge exchange and reuse across domains. Therefore, ontology organizes information into taxonomies of terms (i.e., concepts, attributes) and shows the relationships between them. In fact, it is considered to be helpful in reducing conceptual confusion for users who need to share applications of different kinds, so it is widely used to capture and organize knowledge in a given domain. Although ontologies are considered to provide a solution to data heterogeneity, from another point of view, the available ontologies could themselves introduce heterogeneity problems. In order to deal with these problems, ontologies must be available for sharing or reusing; therefore, semantic heterogeneity and structural differences need to be resolved among ontologies. This can be done, in some cases, by aligning or matching heterogeneous ontologies. Thus, establishing the relationships between terms in the different ontologies is needed throughout ontology alignment. Semantic interoperability can be established in ontology reconciliation. The original problem is called the ―ontology alignment‖. The alignment of ontologies is concerned with the identification of the semantic relationships (subsumption, equivalence, etc.) that hold between the constituent entities (which can be classes, properties, etc.) of two ontologies. In this thesis, an ontology alignment technique has been developed in order to facilitate communication and build a bridge between ontologies. An efficient mechanism has been developed in order to align entities from ontologies in different description languages (e.g. OWL, RDF) or in the same language. This approach tries to use all the features of ontologies (concept, attributes, relations, structure, etc.) in order to obtain efficiency and high quality results. For this purpose, several matching techniques have been used such as string, structure, heuristic and linguistic matchingtechniques with thesaurus support, as well as human intervention in certain cases, to obtain high quality results. The main aim of the work is to introduce a method for finding semantic correspondences among heterogeneous ontologies, with the intention of supporting interoperability over given domains. The approach brings together techniques in modelling, string matching, computation linguistics, structure matching and heuristic matching, in order to provide a semi-automatic alignment framework and prototype alignment system to support the procedure of ontology alignment in order to improve semantic interoperability in heterogeneous systems. This technique integrates some important features in matching in order to achieve high quality results, which will help when searching and exchanging information between ontologies. Moreover, an ontology alignment system illustrates the solving of the key issues related to heterogeneous ontologies, which uses combination-matching strategies to execute the ontology-matching task. Therefore, it can be used to discover the matching between ontologies. This thesis also describes a prototype implementation of this approach in many real-world case studies extracted from various Web resources. Evaluating our system is done throughout the experiments provided by the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative. The system successfully achieved 93% accuracy for ontology matching. Finally, a comparison between our system and well-known tools is achieved so that our system can be evaluated.
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Hu, Xueheng. "SEMANTIC SIMILARITY IN THE EVALUATION OF ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1323323230.
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Pramit, Silwal. "Ontology Alignment using Semantic Similarity with Reference Ontologies." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1356064279.
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Silwal, Pramit. "ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT USING SEMANTIC SIMILARITY WITH REFERENCE ONTOLOGIES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1357171995.
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Gu, Chen. "Ontology Alignment Techniques for Linked Open Data Ontologies." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1386858615.
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Chen, Xi. "Exploiting BioPortal as Background Knowledge in Ontology Alignment." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407331095.
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Amini, Reihaneh. "Towards Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Ontology Alignment Benchmarks." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1470656611.
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Qadeer, Shahab. "Integration of Recommendation and Partial Reference Alignment Algorithms in a Session based Ontology Alignment System." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-73135.
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SAMBO is a system to assist users for alignment and merging of two ontologies (i.e. to find inter-ontology relationship). The user performs an alignment process with the help of mapping suggestions. The objective of the thesis work is to extend the existing system with new components; multiple sessions, integration of an ontology alignment strategy, recommendation system, integration of a system that can use results from previous sessions, and integration of partial reference alignment (PRA) that can be used to filter mapping suggestions. Most of the theoretical work existed, but it was important to study and implement, how these components can be integrated in the system, and how they can work together.
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Chernikova, Elena. "A novel process model-driven approach to comparing educational courses using ontology alignment." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/10107.
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Nowadays, the comparison of educational courses and modules is performed manually by experts in the field of education. The main objective of this research work is to create an approach for the automation of this process. The main contribution of this work is a novel, ontology alignment-based methodology for the automated comparison of academic courses and modules, belonging to the cognitive learning domain. The results of this work are appropriate for such tasks as prior learning and degree recognition, the introduction of joint educational programmes and quality assurance in higher education institutions. The set-theoretical models of an educational course, its modules, learning outcomes and keywords were created and converted to the ontology. The choice of the information to be presented in the ontology was based on the careful analysis of programme specifications, module templates and Bologna recommendations for the comparison of educational courses. Ontology was chosen as the data model due to its ability to formally specify semantics, to represent taxonomies and to make inferences regarding data. The formal grammars of a keyword and a learning outcome were created to enable the semi-automated population of the ontology from the module templates. The corresponding annotators were designed in the General Architecture for Text Engineering 6.1. The algorithm for the comparison of educational courses and modules was based on the alignment of ontologies of their keywords and learning outcomes. A novel measure for calculating the similarity between the action verbs in the learning outcomes was introduced and was utilised. Both the measure and the algorithm were implemented in Java. For evaluation purposes, we utilised the module templates from the De Montfort and the Bauman Moscow State Technical Universities. The automatically produced annotations of the keywords and the learning outcomes were evaluated against a manually created gold standard. The high values of the precision, recall and f-measure proved their quality and their suitability for the task. The results produced by the alignment algorithm were compared with those produced by human judgement. The results returned by the experts and the algorithm were comparable, thus showing that the proposed approach is applicable for the partial automation of the comparison of educational modules and courses.
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Bock, Jürgen [Verfasser]. "Ontology Alignment using Biologically-inspired Optimisation Algorithms / Jürgen Bock." Karlsruhe : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2013. http://www.ksp.kit.edu.
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Geleta, D. "Minimal definition signatures : computation and application to ontology alignment." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3022807/.
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In computer science, ontologies define a domain to facilitate knowledge representation and sharing, in a machine processable way. Ontologies approximate an actual world representation, and thus ontologies will differ for many reasons. Therefore knowledge sharing, and in general semantic interoperability, is inherently hindered or even precluded between heterogenous ontologies. Ontology matching addresses this fundamental issue by producing alignments, i.e. sets of correspondences that describe relations between semantically related entities of different ontologies. However, alignments are typically incomplete. In order to support and improve ontology alignment, and semantic interoperability in general, this thesis exploits the notion of implicit definability. Implicit definability is a semantic property of ontologies, signatures, and concepts (and roles) stating that whenever the signature is fixed under a given ontology then the definition of a particular concept (or role) is also fixed. This thesis introduces the notion of minimal definition signature (MDS) from which a given entity is implicitly definable, and presents a novel approach that provides an efficient way to compute in practice all MDSs of the definable entities. Furthermore, it investigates the application of MDSs in the context of alignment generation, evaluation, and negotiation (whereby agents cooperatively establish a mutually acceptable alignment to support opportunistic communication within open environments). As implicit definability permits defined entities to be removed without semantic loss, this thesis argues, that if the meaning of the defined entity is wholly fixed by the terms of its definition, only the terms in the definition are required to be mapped in order to map the defined entity itself; thus implicit definability entails a new type of definability-based correspondence correspondence. Therefore this thesis defines and explores the properties of definability- based correspondences, and extends several ontology alignment evaluation metrics in order to accommodate their assessment. As task signature coverage is a prerequisite of many knowledge-based tasks (e.g. service invocation), a definability-based, efficient approximation approach to obtaining minimal signature cover sets is presented. Moreover, this thesis outlines a specific alignment negotiation approach and shows that by considering definability, agents are better equipped to: (i) determine whether an alignment provides the necessary coverage to achieve a particular task (align the whole ontology, formulate a message or query); (ii) adhere to privacy and confidentiality constraints; and (iii) minimalise the cardinality of the resulting mutual alignment.
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Tan, He. "Aligning and Merging Biomedical Ontologies." Licentiate thesis, Linköping : Univ, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-6201.
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Meilicke, Christian [Verfasser], and Heiner [Akademischer Betreuer] Stuckenschmidt. "Alignment Incoherence in Ontology Matching / Christian Meilicke. Betreuer: Heiner Stuckenschmidt." Mannheim : Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim, 2011. http://d-nb.info/1034286536/34.
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FELICISSIMO, CAROLINA HOWARD. "SEMANTIC WEB INTEROPERABILITY: ONE STRATEGY FOR THE TAXONOMIC ONTOLOGY ALIGNMENT." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5864@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORCom a evolução da Web atual para a Web Semântica, acredita- se que as informações disponíveis estarão estruturadas de forma a permitir o processamento automático de seu conteúdo por máquinas. Além do processamento individual, deseja-se uma melhor troca de informações entre aplicações Web. Para estes propósitos, são necessários mecanismos que garantam a interoperabilidade semântica, i.e., identificação e compatibilidade de informações. Neste sentido, ontologias são utilizadas como um recurso para disponibilizar um vocabulário estruturado e livre de ambigüidades. Ontologias fornecem um padrão bem definido para a estruturação da informação e promovem um formalismo passível de processamento automático. Neste trabalho, propomos uma estratégia para interoperabilidade de ontologias. O Componente para Alinhamento Taxonômico de Ontologias - CATO, resultado da implementação desta estratégia proposta, alinha automaticamente as taxonomias de ontologias comparadas. O alinhamento realizado é obtido em três etapas executadas seqüencialmente. A primeira etapa compara lexicalmente os conceitos das ontologias entradas e usa um mecanismo de poda estrutural dos conceitos associados como condição de parada. A segunda etapa compara estruturalmente as hierarquias das ontologias identificando as similaridades entre suas sub-árvores comuns. A terceira etapa refina os resultados da etapa anterior classificando os conceitos identificados como similares em bem similares ou pouco similares, de acordo com um percentual de similaridade prédefinido.
With the Web evolving towards a Semantic Web, it is believed that the available information will be presented in a meaningful way to allow machines to automatically process its content. Besides the individual processing, a better information exchange among Web applications is desired. For this purpose, mechanisms are called for guarantee the semantic interoperability, that is, the identification and compatibility of information. In this direction, ontologies are used as one resource to make available a structured vocabulary, free of ambiguities. Ontologies provide a well-defined standard to structure the information and to promote formalism for automatic processing. In this work, we propose one strategy for ontology interoperability. The Ontology Taxonomic Alignment Component - CATO, which is the result of the implementation of this proposed strategy, provides an automatic taxonomic ontologies alignment. In this way, the alignment is obtained by a three-step process. The first step is the lexical comparison between the concepts from the entries ontologies. It uses a trimming mechanism of the related associated concepts as a stop condition. The second step is the structural comparison of the ontologies structures used to identify the similarities between common sub-trees. The third step refines the results of the previous step, classifying the similar identified concepts as very similar or little similar, according to a pre-defined similarity measurement.
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El, Kaed Charbel. "Home Devices Mediation using ontology alignment and code generation techniques." Thesis, Grenoble, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012GRENM002/document.
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Les protocoles plug-and-play couplés avec les architectures logicielles rendent nos maisons ubiquitaires. Les équipements domestiques qui supportent ces protocoles peuvent être détectés automatiquement, configurés et invoqués pour une tâche donnée. Actuellement, plusieurs protocoles coexistent dans la maison, mais les interactions entre les dispositifs ne peuvent pas être mises en action à moins que les appareils supportent le même protocole. En plus, les applications qui orchestrent ces dispositifs doivent connaître à l'avance les noms des services et dispositifs. Or, chaque protocole définit un profil standard par type d'appareil. Par conséquent, deux appareils ayant le même type et les mêmes fonctions mais qui supportent un protocole différent publient des interfaces qui sont souvent sémantiquement équivalentes mais syntaxiquement différentes. Ceci limite alors les applications à interagir avec un service similaire. Dans ce travail, nous présentons une méthode qui se base sur l'alignement d'ontologie et la génération automatique de mandataire pour parvenir à une adaptation dynamique de servicesUbiquitous systems imagined by Mark Weiser are emerging thanks to the development of embedded systems and plug-n-play protocols like the Universal Plug aNd Play (UPnP), the Intelligent Grouping and Resource Sharing (IGRS), the Device Pro le for Web Services (DPWS) and Apple Bonjour. Such protocols follow the service oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm and allow an automatic device and service discovery in a home network. Once devices are connected to the local network, applications deployed for example on a smart phone, a PC or a home gateway, discover the plug-n-play devices and act as control points. The aim of such applications is to orchestrate the interactions between the devices such as lights, TVs and printers, and their corresponding hosted services to accomplish a specific human daily task like printing a document or dimming a light. Devices supporting a plug-n-play protocol announce their hosted services each in its own description format and data content. Even similar devices supporting the same services represent their capabilities in a different representation format and content. Such heterogeneity along with the protocols layers diversity, prevent applications to use any available equivalent device on the network to accomplish a specific task. For instance, a UPnP printing application cannot interacts with an available DPWS printer on the network to print a document. Designing applications to support multiple protocols is time consuming since developers must implement the interaction with each device pro le and its own data description. Additionally, the deployed application must use multiple protocols stacks to interact with the device. More over, application vendors and telecoms operators need to orchestrate devices through a common application layer, independently from the protocol layers and the device description. To accomplish interoperability between plug-n-play devices and applications, we propose a generic approach which consists in automatically generating proxies based on an ontology alignment. The alignment contains the correspondences between two equivalent devices descriptions. Such correspondences actually represent the proxy behaviour which is used to provide interoperability between an application and a plug and play device. For instance, the generated proxy will announce itself on the network as a UPnP standard printer and will control the DPWS printer. Consequently, the UPnP printing application will interact transparently with the generated proxy which adapts and transfers the invocations to the real DPWS printer. We implemented a prototype as a proof of concept that we evaluated on several real UPnP and DPWS equivalent devices
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Gao, Zhiming. "Reducing the Search Space of Ontology Alignment Using Clustering Techniques." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Databas och informationsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-141887.
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With the emerging amount of information available in the internet, how to make full use of this information becomes an urgent issue. One of the solutions is using ontology alignment to aggregate different sources of information in order to get comprehensive and complete information. Scalability is a problem regarding the ontology alignment and it can be settled down by reducing the search space of mapping suggestions. In this paper we propose an automated procedure mainly using different clustering techniques to prune the search space. The main focus of this paper is to evaluate different clustering related techniques to be applied in our system. K-means, Chameleon and Birch have been studied and evaluated, every parameter in these clustering algorithms is studied by doing experiments separately, in order to find the best clustering setting to the ontology clustering problem. Four different similarity assignment methods are researched and analyzed as well. Tfidf vectors and cosine similarity are used to identify the similar clusters in the two ontologies, experiments about threshold of cosine similarity are made to get the most suitable value. Our system successfully builds an automated procedure to generate reduced search space for ontology alignment, on one hand, the result shows that it reduces twenty to ninety times of comparisons that the ontology alignment was supposed to make, the precision goes up as well. On the other hand, it only needs one to two minutes of execution time, meanwhile the recall and f-score only drop down a little bit. The trade- off is acceptable for the ontology alignment system which will take tens of minutes to generate the ontology alignment of the same ontology set. As a result, the large scale ontology alignment becomes more computable and feasible.
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Xia, Weiguo. "AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF MEDIATING ONTOLOGY FOR ALIGNING BIOMEDICAL ONTOLOGIES." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1448274289.
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Bergman, Laurila Jonas. "Ontology Slice Generation and Alignment for Enhanced Life Science Literature Search." Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Linköping University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16440.
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Query composition is an often complicated and cumbersome task for persons performing a literature search. This thesis is part of a project which aims to present possible queries to the user in form of natural language expressions. The thesis presents methods of ontology slice generation. Slices are parts of ontologies connecting two concepts along all possible paths between them. Those slices hence represent all relevant queries connecting the concepts and the paths can in a later step be translated into natural language expressions. Methods of slice alignment, connecting slices that originate from different ontologies, are also presented. The thesis concludes with some example scenarios and comparisons to related work.
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Ziani, Mina. "Conception d'une ontologie hybride à partir d'ontologies métier évolutives : intégration et alignement d'ontologies." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO30081.
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Cette thèse se situe dans le champ de la gestion des connaissances à l’aide de modèles ontologiques. Pour représenter les connaissances de domaine, nous avons conçu une ontologie hybride à deux niveaux : au niveau local, chaque groupe d’experts (du même métier) a construit sa propre ontologie, au niveau global une ontologie consensuelle regroupant les connaissances partagées est créée de façon automatique. De plus, des liens sémantiques entre les éléments de différentes ontologies locales peuvent être ajoutés.Nous avons construit un système d’aide pour guider les experts dans le processus de création de liens sémantiques ou mises en correspondance. Ses particularités sont de proposer des mesures de similarité en fonction des caractéristiques des ontologies à aligner, de réutiliser des résultats déjà calculés et de vérifier la cohérence des mises en correspondances créées.Par ailleurs, les ontologies locales peuvent être mises à jour. Cela implique des changements au niveau de l’ontologie globale ainsi que des mises en correspondances créées. De ce fait, nous avons développé une approche, adaptée à notre domaine pour gérer l’évolution de l’ontologie hybride. En particulier, nous avons utilisé la notion de versions d’ontologies afin de garder trace de toutes les modifications apportées au niveau des ontologies et de pouvoir revenir à tout moment à une version précédente.Nous avons appliqué notre travail de recherche à la géotechnique qui est un domaine complexe impliquant des experts de différents métiers. Une plateforme logicielle est en cours de réalisation et permettra de tester la faisabilité de nos travauxThis thesis concerns the scope of knowledge management using ontological models.To represent domain knowledge, we design a hybrid ontology on two levels: In a local level, each experts’ group has designed its own ontology. In a global level, a consensual ontology containing all the shared knowledge is automatically created.We design a computer-aided system to help experts in the process of mapping creation. It allows experts to choice similarity measures relatively to the ontology characteristics, to reuse the calculated similarities and to verify the consistency of the created mappings.In addition, local ontologies can be updated. This involves modifications in the global ontology and on the created mappings. A relevant approach of our domain was developed.In particular, ontology versioning is used in order to keep a record of all the occurred modifications in the ontologies; it allows to return at any time a previous version of the hybrid ontology.The exploited domain is geotechnics which gathers various business experts. A prototype is in progress and currently does not still captures ontology evolution
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Sengupta, Kunal. "A Language for Inconsistency-Tolerant Ontology Mapping." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1441044183.
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Bock, Jürgen [Verfasser], and R. [Akademischer Betreuer] Studer. "Ontology Alignment using Biologically-inspired Optimisation Algorithms / Jürgen Bock. Betreuer: R. Studer." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1024729532/34.
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Azzam, Said Rabah. "Developing a compositional ontology alignment framework for unifying business and engineering domains." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2012. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/developing-a-compositional-ontology-alignment-framework-for-unifying-business-and-engineering-domains(858b71bb-7570-4c07-a3e6-9d1b3992c9f6).html.
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In the context of the Semantic Web, ontologies refer to the consensual and formal description of shared concepts in a domain. Ontologies are said to be a way to aid communication between humans and machines and also between machines for agent communication. The importance of ontologies for providing a shared understanding of common domains, and as a means for data exchange at the syntactic and semantic level has increased considerably in the last years. Therefore, ontology management becomes a significant task to make distributed and heterogeneous knowledge bases available to the end users. Ontology alignment is the process where ontology from different domains can be matched and processed further together, hence sharing a common understanding of the structure of information among different people. This research starts from a comprehensive review of the current development of ontology, the concepts of ontology alignments and relevant approaches. The first motivation of this work is trying to summarise the common features of ontology alignment and identify underdevelopment areas of ontology alignment. It then works on how complex businesses can be designed and managed by semantic modelling which can help define the data and the relationships between these entities, which provides the ability to abstract different kinds of data and provides an understanding of how the data elements relate. The main contributions of this work is to develop a framework of handling an important category of ontology alignment based on the logical composition of classes, especially under a case that one class from a certain domain becomes a logic prerequisites (assumption) of another class from a different domain (commitment) which only happens if the class from the first domain becomes valid. Under this logic, previously un-alignable classes or miss-aligned classes can be aligned in a significantly improved manner. A well-known rely/guarantee method has been adopted to clearly express such relationships between newly-alignable classes. The proposed methodology has be implemented and evaluated on a realistic case study.
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Umoh, Emem Koffi. "REFINTO : an ontology-based requirements engineering framework for business-IT alignment in financial services." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/refinto-an-ontologybased-requirements-engineering-framework-for-businessit-alignment-in-financial-services(06738060-cedd-47cb-925e-1b897129bfd0).html.
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Business-IT alignment has been a top research topic for three decades now and consistently ranks high on CIO priorities and concerns. In spite of its seeming advantages, sustainable business-IT alignment remains elusive in practice. This can be attributed to the language and knowledge gaps which impede mutual understanding between business and IT stakeholders. It can also be attributed to the limitations imposed by approaching alignment solely from a strategic perspective. This thesis argues for an ontology-based framework that bridges the language and knowledge gaps through closer interaction between business and IT stakeholders throughout the software development and project management lifecycles, especially at the requirements engineering stage. Attempts at achieving sustainable business-IT alignment predominantly focus on strategic alignment and have not been successful for various reasons. Firstly, driving down alignment initiatives to the operational and tactical levels is challenging. Secondly, it is difficult to operationalize the metrics used for evaluating alignment maturity at strategic levels. These limitations are less pronounced at the functional levels of an organization. It is at these levels that business strategies are executed and interaction between business and IT personnel is most frequent. The interaction between business and IT stakeholders in the execution of IT projects presents an opportunity that can be leveraged to drive alignment maturity. The proposed framework is discussed in terms of its underpinning hypotheses, workflows, tool design and implementation, its use with a third party framework and tool. Antecedents to operational and tactical alignment such as quality, reuse, communication, learning, and shared understanding, are proposed as a practical means of achieving sustainable alignment maturity. The framework is applied to real world, business-critical projects in a top global financial services organization and validated using descriptive statistical analysis and structural equation modelling techniques. Contributions made through the study are highlighted. This includes the Alignment Forces Model which unifies the proposed framework and its support tool within software development and project management lifecycles. The Alignment Forces model and how it can be applied in practice is presented. Results of the quantitative data analyses indicate support for the arguments for the framework towards improving business-IT alignment, however with some limitations. Results also indicate support for the hypotheses for the antecedents to sustainable alignment maturity at lower organizational levels put forward. Finally, suggestions on furthering the study, addressing its limitations, and refining the framework and tool are articulated.
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Liu, Qiang. "Dealing with Missing Mappings and Structure in a Network of Ontologies." Licentiate thesis, Linköpings universitet, Databas och informationsteknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-64281.
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With the popularity of the World Wide Web, a large amount of data is generated and made available through the Internet everyday. To integrate and query this huge amount of heterogeneous data, the vision of Semantic Web has been recognized as a possible solution. One key technology for the Semantic Web is ontologies. Many ontologies have been developed in recent years. Meanwhile, due to the demand of applications using multiple ontologies, mappings between entities of these ontologies are generated as well, which leads to the generation of ontology networks consisting of ontologies and mappings between these ontologies. However, neither developing ontologies nor finding mappings between ontologies is an easy task. It may happen that the ontologies are not consistent or complete, or the mappings between these ontologies are not correct or complete, or the resulting ontology network is not consistent. This may lead to problems when they are used in semantically-enabled applications. In this thesis, we address two issues relevant to the quality of the mappings and the structure in the ontology network. The first issue deals with the missing mappings between networked ontologies. Assuming existing mappings between ontologies are correct, we investigate whether and how to use these existing mappings, to find more mappings between ontologies. We propose and test several strategies of using the given correct mappings to align ontologies. The second issue deals with the missing structure, in particular missing is-a relations, in networked ontologies. Based on the assumption that missing is-a relations are a kind of modeling defects, we propose an ontology debugging approach to tackle this issue. We develop an algorithm for detecting missing is-a relations in ontologies, as well as algorithms which assist the user in repairing by generating and recommending possible ways of repairing and executing the repairing. Based on this approach, we develop a system and test its use and performance.
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Cheatham, Michelle Andreen. "The Properties of Property Alignment on the Semantic Web." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1407775249.
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Li, Huanyu. "The Design and Implementation of Optimization Approaches for Large Scale Ontology Alignment in SAMBO." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Databas och informationsteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-134930.
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The current World Wide Web provides a convenient way for people to acquire information,but it does not have the ability to manipulate semantics. In other words, peoplecan access data from web pages efficiently but computer programs cannot satisfy effectivedata reuse and sharing. Tim Berners-Lee as the inventor ofWorldWideWeb together withJames Hendler and Ora Lassila, proposed the idea of Semantic Web that is expected as anevolution to existing Web. The knowledge representation for Semantic Web witnessed thedevelopment from extensible makeup language (XML) and resource description framework(RDF) to ontologies. A large quantity of researchers utilize ontologies to expressconcepts, relations and relevant semantics in specific domains. However, different researchersmay have diverse comprehension about knowledge that brings inconsistentinformation in same or similar ontologies. SAMBO is an ontology alignment system that was designed and implemented by ADITof Linköping University in 2005. Shortly after implementation, SAMBO could accomplishmost tasks of ontology alignment. Nevertheless, as the scale grows rapidly, SAMBO couldnot achieve large scale ontology alignment. The primary job of this thesis is to optimizeexisting SAMBO system to fulfill alignment of large scale ontologies. The principal parts of this thesis are as follows. First, we achieve an analysis on currenttop ontology alignment systems, AML and LogMap which are capable of aligning largescale ontologies. This analysis aims to obtain the features in the design of high-quality systems.Then, we analyze existing SAMBO to figure out which aspects need to be optimized.We obtain the result that SAMBO should be improved in data structure, database designand parallel matching. Thus, we propose the design of optimization approaches and givethe implementation. Finally, we evaluate the new system with large scale ontologies andacquire desired results.
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Kahn, Muzammil Zareen. "A Session-Based System for Aligning Large Ontologies." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-60156.
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Ontologies are a key technology for the Semantic Web. In different areas, a large number of ontologies have been developed so far by different people or organizations under the same domains and many of them contain overlapping information. In order to get more benefit from different ontologies having inter-related knowledge they have to be aligned or merged. A number of systems have been developed for aligning and merging ontologies and various alignment strategies are used in these systems. However, there is no system available which supports multiple alignment sessions for aligning large ontologies adequately. In this thesis work we propose a session-based framework for aligning and merging large ontologies. We have implemented two types of sessions, computation sessions to generate suggestions and validation sessions to validate these generated suggestions. Furthermore after categorizing suggestions into accepted and rejected ones, we generated partial reference alignment (PRA) that can be used to compute similarities between terms and to filter mapping suggestions. We have also proposed recommendation process integrated with computation and validation sessions in order to find out which matchers, and combinations are better to use for alignment process. Either computation and validation sessions may use the recommended settings or the user can select other matchers and combinations.
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Junior, Esdras Lins Bispo. "Métricas de avaliação de alinhamento de ontologias." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/45/45134/tde-21022014-162402/.
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Na área de emparelhamento de ontologias, são utilizadas algumas métricas para avaliar os alinhamentos produzidos. As métricas baseadas em alinhamento têm como princípio básico confrontar um alinhamento proposto com um alinhamento de referência. Algumas destas métricas, entretanto, não têm alcançado êxito suficiente porque (i) não conseguem discriminar sempre entre um alinhamento totalmente errado e um quase correto; e (ii) não conseguem estimar o esforço do usuário para refinar o alinhamento resultante. Este trabalho tem como objetivo apresentar uma nova abordagem para avaliar os alinhamentos de ontologias. A nossa abordagem apresenta uma métrica na qual utilizamos as próprias consultas normalmente já realizadas nas ontologias originais para julgar a qualidade do alinhamento proposto. Apresentamos também alguns resultados satisfatórios de nossa abordagem em relação às outras métricas já existentes e largamente utilizadas.In the ontology matching field, different metrics are used to evaluate the resulting alignments. Metrics based on alignment adopt the basic principle of verifying a proposed alignment against a reference alignment. Some of these metrics do not achieve good results because (i) they cannot always distinguish between a totally wrong alignment and one which is almost correct; and (ii) they cannot estimate the effort for the user to refine the resulting alignment. This work aims to present a new approach to evaluate ontology alignments. Our approach presents a measure that uses the usual queries in the original ontologies to assess the quality of the proposed alignment. We also present some satisfactory results of our approach with regard to widely used metrics.
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Tounsi, Dhouib Molka. "Ingénierie des connaissances dans le domaine du sourcing pour la recommandation de prestataires." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021COAZ4024.
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Cette thèse de doctorat CIFRE s'inscrit dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche collaboratif entre le laboratoire I3S de l'Université Côte d'Azur et la société Silex et aborde le domaine des systèmes de recommandation. Silex est une start-up qui développe un outil de sourcing Software-as-a-Service permettant aux entreprises de fournir une description de leurs activités professionnelles, de leurs offres et/ou des services qu'elles recherchent en langue naturelle (actuellement le français).Dans ce contexte, l'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer un système d'aide à la décision en exploitant les connaissances sémantiques extraites à partir des descriptions textuelles des demandes de prestation et des prestataires, afin de recommander des prestataires pertinents pour une demande de prestation.Les contributions de cette thèse sont les suivantes. Premièrement, nous avons proposé un vocabulaire pour le domaine du sourcing en réutilisant et en intégrant des vocabulaires existants, afin d'annoter sémantiquement les descriptions textuelles des prestataires et des demandes de prestation. Deuxièmement, nous avons proposé une méthode d’alignement automatique afin d'établir la correspondance entre différents concepts des vocabulaires considérés. Cette approche se base sur des règles exploitant l'espace des plongements lexicaux et des mesures sur des groupes d'étiquettes pour découvrir les relations entre concepts. Troisièmement, nous avons proposé un algorithme d'extraction des entités nommées à partir des descriptions textuelles des demandes de prestation et des prestataires et un algorithme d'annotation sémantique de ces descriptions, basé sur le liage des entités extraites avec les concepts du vocabulaire défini.Quatrièmement, nous avons proposé un algorithme de recommandation de prestataires qui exploite ces annotations sémantiques.Finalement, nous avons étudié l'apport de l'utilisation de connaissances ontologiques afin d'améliorer notre système d'aide à décision pour le domaine du sourcingThis CIFRE doctoral thesis is part of a collaborative research project between the I3S laboratory of the University of Côte d'Azur and the Silex company, and addresses the field of recommendation systems. Silex is a start-up that develops a Software-as-a-Service sourcing tool that allows companies to provide a description of their professional activities, their offers and/or the services they are looking for in natural language (currently French).In this context, the objective of this thesis is to propose a decision support system by exploiting the semantic knowledge that are extracted from the textual descriptions of requests for services and providers, in order to recommend relevant providers for a service request.The contributions of this thesis are the following. First, we proposed a vocabulary for the sourcing field by reusing and integrating existing vocabularies, in order to semantically annotate the textual descriptions of providers and requests for services. Second, we proposed an automatic alignment method to establish the correspondence between different concepts of the considered vocabularies. This approach is based on rules exploiting embedding space and measurements on groups of labels to discover the relationships between concepts. Third, we proposed an algorithm for extracting named entities from the textual descriptions of service requests and providers, and an algorithm for semantic annotation of these descriptions, based on the linking of the extracted entities with the concepts of the defined vocabulary.Fourth, we proposed a provider recommendation algorithm that exploits these knowledges extracted.Finally, we studied the contribution of using ontological knowledge to improve our decision support system for the sourcing domain in order to recommend relevant providers for a service request.The contributions of this thesis are the following. First, we proposed a vocabulary for the sourcing field in order to semantically annotate the textual descriptions of providers and requests for services. This vocabulary was built by reusing and integrating existing vocabularies. Second, we proposed an automatic alignment method to establish the correspondence between different concepts of the considered vocabularies. This approach is based on rules exploiting embedding space and measurements on groups of labels to discover the relationships between concepts. Third, we proposed an algorithm for extracting named entities from the textual descriptions of service requests and providers, and an algorithm for semantic annotation of these descriptions, based on the linking of the extracted entities with the concepts of the defined vocabulary.Fourth, we proposed a provider recommendation algorithm that exploits these knowledge extracted.Finally, we studied the contribution of using ontological knowledge to improve our decision support system for the sourcing domain
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Zhao, Yidan. "An Improved Design and Implementation of the Session-based SAMBO with Parallelization Techniques and MongoDB." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-141810.
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The session-based SAMBO is an ontology alignment system involving MySQL to store matching results. Currently, SAMBO is able to align most ontologies within acceptable time. However, when it comes to large scale ontologies, SAMBO fails to reach the target. Thus, the main purpose of this thesis work is to improve the performance of SAMBO, especially in the case of matching large scale ontologies. To reach the purpose, a comprehensive literature study and an investigation on two outstanding large scale ontology system are carried out with the aim of setting the improvement directions. A detailed investigation on the existing SAMBO is conducted to figure out in which aspects the system can be improved. Parallel matching process optimization and data management optimization are determined as the primary optimization goal of the thesis work. In the following, a few relevant techniques are studied and compared. Finally, an optimized design is proposed and implemented. System testing results of the improved SAMBO show that both parallel matching process optimization and data management optimization contribute greatly to improve the performance of SAMBO. However the execution time of SAMBO to align large scale ontologies with database interaction is still unacceptable.
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De, Vries Marne. "A process reuse identification framework using an alignment model." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31634.
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This thesis explores the potential to unify three emerging disciplines: enterprise engineering, enterprise architecture and enterprise ontology. The current fragmentation that exists in literature on enterprise alignment and design constrains the development and growth of the emerging disciplines. Enterprises need to use a multi-disciplinary approach when they continuously align, design and re-design the enterprise. Although enterprises need to be aligned internally (across various enterprise facets), as well as externally (with the environment), most alignment approaches still focus on business-IT alignment, i.e. aligning the business operations with the information and communication technologies and systems of the enterprise. This study focuses on a popular business-IT alignment approach,called the foundation for execution approach, and its associated artefact, called the operating model. The study acknowledges the theoretical contribution of the operating model to establish the required level of business process integration and standardisation at an enterprise in delivering goods and services to customers. Highlighting the practical problems in selecting an operating model for an enterprise, and more specifically the practical problems of identifying process reuse potential at an enterprise, a thesis statement is formulated: The operating model concept, as part of a business-IT alignment approach, can be enhanced with a process reuse identification framework, when a business-IT alignment contextualisation is used. The study is divided into two research questions. The first research question addresses the current fragmentation that exists in the literature, which impairs reuse of the existing business-IT alignment knowledge base. An inductive literature review develops the Business-IT Alignment Model to provide a common contextualisation for current business-IT alignment approaches. The second research question addresses the practical problems of the operating model regarding the identification of process reuse potential at an enterprise. Applying the newly developed Business-IT Alignment Model as a contextualisation instrument, the study demonstrates the use of design research in developing the Process Reuse Identification Framework. The conclusion after the investigation of the two research questions is that the thesis statement was confirmed, i.e. the operating model concept, as part of a business-IT alignment approach, can be enhanced with a process reuse identification framework, when a business-IT contextualisation is used.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Milinko, Mandić. "Razvoj platforme za standardizaciju obrazovanja nastavnika informatike." Phd thesis, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Prirodno-matematički fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2015. https://www.cris.uns.ac.rs/record.jsf?recordId=95569&source=NDLTD&language=en.
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Doktorska disertacija se bavi istraživanjima koja imaju za cilj da unapredeobrazovanje nastavničkog kadra iz oblasti informatike. Predmet istraživanja disertacije jerazvoj platforme koja će olakšati sinhronizaciju razvoja nastavničkog kurikuluma izinformatičke oblasti sa aktuelnim srednjoškolskim informatičkim standardima isavremenim kurikulumima za nastavnike informatike. Prvi pravac istraživanja jeidentifikovanje stanja u oblasti obrazovanja nastavnika informatike (modalitetiobrazovanja nastavnika i kompetencije koje se tim modalitetima stiču). U disertaciji sestanje identifikuje na osnovu analize savremene literature, aktuelnih standarda,reprezentativnih kurikuluma i preliminarnog istraživanja nad populacijom sadašnjihnastavnika informatike na teritoriji Vojvodine. Drugi pravac istraživanja jeobezbeđivanje (tehničke) pretpostavke za objektivnije i efikasnije kreiranje,upoređivanje i razmenu kurikuluma. Taj pravac se odnosi na razvoj mašinski čitljiveontologije kurikuluma bazirane na većpostojećim standardima u domenu obrazovanja isoftverske podrške za upoređivanje takvih reprezentacija kurikuluma bazirane natehnologijama Semantičkog Weba.Ciljevi istraživanja u disertaciji su specifikacija mašinski čitljivog modela informatičkogkurikuluma za obrazovanje nastavnika informatike, mašinski čitljivog modelainformatičkog kurikuluma za srednjoškolski nivo obrazovanja i razvoj prototipasoftverske aplikacije za verifikaciju predloženih modela.The doctoral thesis deals with researches that aim to improve the education of teaching staff in the field of informatics. The subject of the dissertation research is to develop a platform that will facilitate the synchronization of the development of teaching curricula in the informatics field with the current secondary informatics standards and modern curricula for informatics teachers of informatics. The first research direction is to identify the state in the informatics teacher education (modalities of teacher education and competences acquired through these modalities). In the dissertation, the state is identified from the review of literature, currentstandards, representative curricula and a preliminary research on population of current informatics teachers in Vojvodina. Another research direction is to provide (technical) prerequisites for more objective and more efficient creation, comparison and exchange of curricula. That direction is related to the development of a machine-readable ontological representation of a curriculum based on existing standards in the field of education and to developing software support for comparing such representations of curricula based on the Semantic Web technologies.The goals of the research in the dissertation are to specify a machine readable model of the informatics teacher education curriculum, a machine-readable model of the informatics curriculum for secondary level education and the development of a software application prototype in order to verify the proposed models.
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xu, wei. "SVM-based algorithms for aligning ontologies using literature." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15974.
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Ontologies is one of the key techniques used in Semantic Web establishment. Nowadays，many ontologies have been developed and it is critical to understand the relationships between the terms of the ontologies, i.e. we need to align the ontologies.
This thesis deals with an approach for finding relationships between ontologies using literature by classifying documents related to terms in the ontologies.
In this project the general method from [1] is used, but in the classifier generation part, a brand new classifier based on SVMs algorithm is implemented by LPU and SVMlight. We evaluate our approach and compare it to previous approaches.
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Tous, Liesa Rubén. "Data Integration with XML and Semantic Web Technologies." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7535.
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En general, la integració de múltiples bases de dades heterogènies té com a objectiu oferir una visió unificada sobre un conjunt de dades preexistent. Aquesta tesi contribueix a diferents aspectes del disseny de sistemes de integració de dades moderns en el context de la World Wide Web. Per un costat, la tesi contribueix a la línia de recerca de la Integració Semàntica, que fa referència al problema de reconciliar dades de fonts autònomes mitjançant l'ús d'ontologies i altres eines semàntiques. La tesi suggereix una nova solució a la integració semàntica XML-RDF, i també contribueix al problema de l'Alineació d'Ontologies, definint una mesura de similitud semàntica rigorosa i escalable per grafs etiquetats i dirigits RDF. Per un altre costat, la tesi suggereix una nova solució al problema de traduir una consulta d'un usuari (dirigida a un esquema lògic intermediari), en consultes sobre un conjunt de fonts de dades autònomes, provistes de interfícies web restringides.
En general, la integración de múltiples bases de datos heterogenias tiene como objetivo ofrecer una visión unificada sobre un conjunto de datos preexistente. Esta tesis contribuye a diferentes aspectos del diseño de sistemas de integración de datos modernos en el contexto de la World Wide Web.
Por un lado, la tesis contribuye a la línea de investigación de la Integración Semántica, que hace referencia al problema de reconciliar datos de fuentes autónomas mediante el uso de ontologías i otras herramientas semánticas. La tesis sugiere una nueva solución a la integración semántica XML-RDF, y también contribuye al problema de la Alineación de Ontologías, definiendo una medida de similitud semántica rigurosa i escalable para grafos etiquetados y dirigidos RDF. Por otro lado, la tesis sugiere una nueva solución al problema de traducir una consulta de un usuario (dirigida a un esquema lógico intermediario), en consultas sobre un conjunto de fuentes de datos autónomas, provistas de interfaces web restringidas.
In general, integration of multiple heterogeneous databases aims at giving a unified view over a set of pre-existent data. This thesis contributes to different aspects of the design of modern data integration systems in the context of the World Wide Web.
On one hand, this thesis contributes to the Semantic Integration research trend, which refers to the problem of reconciling data from autonomous sources using ontologies and other semantic-based tools. The thesis suggests a novel solution to XML-RDF semantic integration and also contributes to the problem of Ontology Alignment, defining a rigorous and scalable semantic similarity measure for RDF labelled directed graphs. On the other hand, this thesis suggests a novel solution to the problem of translating a user query (targeting a logical mediated schema), into queries over a set of autonomous data sources provided with restricted web interfaces.
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Xu, Wei. "SVM-based algorithms for aligning ontologies using literature." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15974.
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Ontologies is one of the key techniques used in Semantic Web establishment. Nowadays，many ontologies have been developed and it is critical to understand the relationships between the terms of the ontologies, i.e. we need to align the ontologies. This thesis deals with an approach for finding relationships between ontologies using literature by classifying documents related to terms in the ontologies. In this project the general method from [1] is used, but in the classifier generation part, a brand new classifier based on SVMs algorithm is implemented by LPU and SVMlight. We evaluate our approach and compare it to previous approaches.
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Groß, Anika. "Evolution von ontologiebasierten Mappings in den Lebenswissenschaften." Doctoral thesis, Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-136766.
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Im Bereich der Lebenswissenschaften steht eine große und wachsende Menge heterogener Datenquellen zur Verfügung, welche häufig in quellübergreifenden Analysen und Auswertungen miteinander kombiniert werden. Um eine einheitliche und strukturierte Erfassung von Wissen sowie einen formalen Austausch zwischen verschiedenen Applikationen zu erleichtern, kommen Ontologien und andere strukturierte Vokabulare zum Einsatz. Sie finden Anwendung in verschiedenen Domänen wie der Molekularbiologie oder Chemie und dienen zumeist der Annotation realer Objekte wie z.B. Gene oder Literaturquellen. Unterschiedliche Ontologien enthalten jedoch teilweise überlappendes Wissen, so dass die Bestimmung einer Abbildung (Ontologiemapping) zwischen ihnen notwendig ist. Oft ist eine manuelle Mappingerstellung zwischen großen Ontologien kaum möglich, weshalb typischerweise automatische Verfahren zu deren Abgleich (Matching) eingesetzt werden. Aufgrund neuer Forschungserkenntnisse und Nutzeranforderungen verändern sich die Ontologien kontinuierlich weiter. Die Evolution der Ontologien hat wiederum Auswirkungen auf abhängige Daten wie beispielsweise Annotations- und Ontologiemappings, welche entsprechend aktualisiert werden müssen. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit werden neue Methoden und Algorithmen zum Umgang mit der Evolution ontologie-basierter Mappings entwickelt. Dabei wird die generische Infrastruktur GOMMA zur Verwaltung und Analyse der Evolution von Ontologien und Mappings genutzt und erweitert. Zunächst wurde eine vergleichende Analyse der Evolution von Ontologiemappings für drei Subdomänen der Lebenswissenschaften durchgeführt. Ontologien sowie Mappings unterliegen teilweise starken Änderungen, wobei die Evolutionsintensität von der untersuchten Domäne abhängt. Insgesamt zeigt sich ein deutlicher Einfluss von Ontologieänderungen auf Ontologiemappings. Dementsprechend können bestehende Mappings infolge der Weiterentwicklung von Ontologien ungültig werden, so dass sie auf aktuelle Ontologieversionen migriert werden müssen. Dabei sollte eine aufwendige Neubestimmung der Mappings vermieden werden. In dieser Arbeit werden zwei generische Algorithmen zur (semi-) automatischen Adaptierung von Ontologiemappings eingeführt. Ein Ansatz basiert auf der Komposition von Ontologiemappings, wohingegen der andere Ansatz eine individuelle Behandlung von Ontologieänderungen zur Adaptierung der Mappings erlaubt. Beide Verfahren ermöglichen die Wiederverwendung unbeeinflusster, bereits bestätigter Mappingteile und adaptieren nur die von Änderungen betroffenen Bereiche der Mappings. Eine Evaluierung für sehr große, biomedizinische Ontologien und Mappings zeigt, dass beide Verfahren qualitativ hochwertige Ergebnisse produzieren. Ähnlich zu Ontologiemappings werden auch ontologiebasierte Annotationsmappings durch Ontologieänderungen beeinflusst. Die Arbeit stellt einen generischen Ansatz zur Bewertung der Qualität von Annotationsmappings auf Basis ihrer Evolution vor. Verschiedene Qualitätsmaße erlauben die Identifikation glaubwürdiger Annotationen beispielsweise anhand ihrer Stabilität oder Herkunftsinformationen. Eine umfassende Analyse großer Annotationsdatenquellen zeigt zahlreiche Instabilitäten z.B. aufgrund temporärer Annotationslöschungen. Dementsprechend stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit die Datenevolution zu einer Veränderung von abhängigen Analyseergebnissen führen kann. Dazu werden die Auswirkungen der Ontologie- und Annotationsevolution auf sogenannte funktionale Analysen großer biologischer Datensätze untersucht. Eine Evaluierung anhand verschiedener Stabilitätsmaße erlaubt die Bewertung der Änderungsintensität der Ergebnisse und gibt Aufschluss, inwieweit Nutzer mit einer signifikanten Veränderung ihrer Ergebnisse rechnen müssen. Darüber hinaus wird GOMMA um effiziente Verfahren für das Matching sehr großer Ontologien erweitert. Diese werden u.a. für den Abgleich neuer Konzepte während der Adaptierung von Ontologiemappings benötigt. Viele der existierenden Match-Systeme skalieren nicht für das Matching besonders großer Ontologien wie sie im Bereich der Lebenswissenschaften auftreten. Ein effizienter, kompositionsbasierter Ansatz gleicht Ontologien indirekt ab, indem existierende Mappings zu Mediatorontologien wiederverwendet und miteinander kombiniert werden. Mediatorontologien enthalten wertvolles Hintergrundwissen, so dass sich die Mappingqualität im Vergleich zu einem direkten Matching verbessern kann. Zudem werden generelle Strategien für das parallele Ontologie-Matching unter Verwendung mehrerer Rechenknoten vorgestellt. Eine größenbasierte Partitionierung der Eingabeontologien verspricht eine gute Lastbalancierung und Skalierbarkeit, da kleinere Teilaufgaben des Matchings parallel verarbeitet werden können. Die Evaluierung im Rahmen der Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) vergleicht GOMMA und andere Systeme für das Matching von Ontologien in verschiedenen Domänen. GOMMA kann u.a. durch Anwendung des parallelen und kompositionsbasierten Matchings sehr gute Ergebnisse bezüglich der Effektivität und Effizienz des Matchings, insbesondere für Ontologien aus dem Bereich der Lebenswissenschaften, erreichenIn the life sciences, there is an increasing number of heterogeneous data sources that need to be integrated and combined in comprehensive analysis tasks. Often ontologies and other structured vocabularies are used to provide a formal representation of knowledge and to facilitate data exchange between different applications. Ontologies are used in different domains like molecular biology or chemistry. One of their most important applications is the annotation of real-world objects like genes or publications. Since different ontologies can contain overlapping knowledge it is necessary to determine mappings between them (ontology mappings). A manual mapping creation can be very time-consuming or even infeasible such that (semi-) automatic ontology matching methods are typically applied. Ontologies are not static but underlie continuous modifications due to new research insights and changing user requirements. The evolution of ontologies can have impact on dependent data like annotation or ontology mappings. This thesis presents novel methods and algorithms to deal with the evolution of ontology-based mappings. Thereby the generic infrastructure GOMMA is used and extended to manage and analyze the evolution of ontologies and mappings. First, a comparative evolution analysis for ontologies and mappings from three life science domains shows heavy changes in ontologies and mappings as well as an impact of ontology changes on the mappings. Hence, existing ontology mappings can become invalid and need to be migrated to current ontology versions. Thereby an expensive redetermination of the mappings should be avoided. This thesis introduces two generic algorithms to (semi-) automatically adapt ontology mappings: (1) a composition-based adaptation relies on the principle of mapping composition, and (2) a diff-based adaptation algorithm allows for individually handling change operations to update mappings. Both approaches reuse unaffected mapping parts, and adapt only affected parts of the mappings. An evaluation for very large biomedical ontologies and mappings shows that both approaches produce ontology mappings of high quality. Similarly, ontology changes may also affect ontology-based annotation mappings. The thesis introduces a generic evaluation approach to assess the quality of annotation mappings based on their evolution. Different quality measures allow for the identification of reliable annotations, e.g., based on their stability or provenance information. A comprehensive analysis of large annotation data sources shows numerous instabilities, e.g., due to the temporary absence of annotations. Such modifications may influence results of dependent applications such as functional enrichment analyses that describe experimental data in terms of ontological groupings. The question arises to what degree ontology and annotation changes may affect such analyses. Based on different stability measures the evaluation assesses change intensities of application results and gives insights whether users need to expect significant changes of their analysis results. Moreover, GOMMA is extended by large-scale ontology matching techniques. Such techniques are useful, a.o., to match new concepts during ontology mapping adaptation. Many existing match systems do not scale for aligning very large ontologies, e.g., from the life science domain. One efficient composition-based approach indirectly computes ontology mappings by reusing and combining existing mappings to intermediate ontologies. Intermediate ontologies can contain useful background knowledge such that the mapping quality can be improved compared to a direct match approach. Moreover, the thesis introduces general strategies for matching ontologies in parallel using several computing nodes. A size-based partitioning of the input ontologies enables good load balancing and scalability since smaller match tasks can be processed in parallel. The evaluation of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) compares GOMMA and other systems in terms of matching ontologies from different domains. Using the parallel and composition-based matching, GOMMA can achieve very good results w.r.t. efficiency and effectiveness, especially for ontologies from the life science domain
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Joshi, Amit Krishna. "Exploiting Alignments in Linked Data for Compression and Query Answering." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1496142816700187.
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Pacielli, Alessandro. "Estensione della copertura terminologica del metatesauro biomedicale UMLS mediante allineamento con Wikipedia." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.
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Lo Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) è un’ontologia biomedicale multilingue sviluppata dalla National Library of Medicine degli Stati Uniti, il cui metatesauro rappresenta una risorsa di grande valore per lo sviluppo di applicazioni di Natural Language Processing in tale dominio.
Purtroppo i 4.5 milioni di concetti attualmente presenti nel vocabolario non sono tradotti in tutte le lingue disponibili, infatti meno del 4% dei concetti ha una traduzione in Italiano. Per ovviare a questa problematica proponiamo un metodo di allineamento tra UMLS e Wikipedia, ovvero un sistema per trovare la pagina Wikipedia corrispondente a ciascun concetto UMLS ed
estrapolare da questa una traduzione. In questo lavoro abbiamo dunque individuato dataset pre-esistenti, implementato un sistema di allineamento basato su tecniche di Natural Language Processing e Machine Learning e ottenuto un risultato che potrà essere utilizzato per tradurre i concetti in lingua Italiana e per costruire sistemi di allineamento più avanzati.
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Hamdi, Fayçal. "Améliorer l'interopérabilité sémantique : applicabilité et utilité de l'alignement d'ontologies." Phd thesis, Université Paris Sud - Paris XI, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00662523.
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Dans cette thèse, nous présentons des approches d'adaptation d'un processus d'alignement aux caractéristiques des ontologies alignées, qu'il s'agisse de caractéristiques quantitatives telles que leur volume ou de caractéristiques particulières liées par exemple à la façon dont les labels des concepts sont construits. Concernant les caractéristiques quantitatives, nous proposons deux méthodes de partitionnement d'ontologies qui permettent l'alignement des ontologies très volumineuses. Ces deux méthodes génèrent, en entrée du processus d'alignement, des sous ensembles de taille raisonnable des deux ontologies à aligner en prenant en compte dès le départ l'objectif d'alignement dans le processus de partitionnement.Concernant les caractéristiques particulières des ontologies alignées, nous présentons l'environnement TaxoMap Framework qui permet la spécification de traitements de raffinement à partir de primitives prédéfinies. Nous proposons un langage de patrons MPL (the Mapping Pattern Language) que nous utilisons pour spécifier les traitements de raffinement.En plus des approches d'adaptation aux caractéristiques des ontologies alignées, nous présentons des approches de réutilisation des résultats d'alignement pour l'ingénierie ontologique. Nous nous focalisons plus particulièrement sur l'utilisation de l'alignement pour l'enrichissement d'ontologies. Nous étudions l'apport des techniques d'alignement pour l'enrichissement et l'impact des caractéristiques de la ressource externe utilisée comme source d'enrichissement. Enfin, nous présentons la façon dont l'environnement TaxoMap Framework a été implémenté et les expérimentations réalisées : des tests sur le module d'alignement TaxoMap, sur l'approche de raffinement de mappings, sur les méthodes de partitionnement d'ontologies de très grande taille et sur l'approche d'enrichissement d'ontologies.
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Bouzid, Sara. "Approche sémantique de gestion de ressources d’Information pour le contrôle de processus industriels : application au processus de fabrication chez STMicroelectronics." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM4346/document.
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Afin d’assurer la fabrication de produits conformes et à faible coût dans les industries, la maîtrise des procédés de fabrication est devenue un enjeu majeur. Les systèmes d'information dans les industries sont assez complexes et les besoins métier évoluent en permanence, rendant ainsi difficile la recherche des ressources qui fournissent les informations manufacturières pour le contrôle de procédés industriels. De plus, l’utilisation de plateformes logicielles commerciales dans les industries pour le traitement des données ne facilite pas l’accès à l’information produite car ces plateformes ne permettent pas la gestion sémantique de l’information. Cette thèse défend l’idée qu’il faut réduire la distance entre les ressources disponibles et les besoins métier des experts qui assurent le contrôle de processus industriels. L’approche S3 est proposée pour permettre à la fois la description et la recherche de ces ressources. S3 repose sur deux stratégies de recherche complémentaires: une stratégie ascendante permettant la création de descripteurs sémantiques de ressources, et une stratégie descendante permettant la capture des besoins métier dans des patterns de recherche. Deux structures sémantiques sont proposées pour supporter les mécanismes de description et de recherche: une ontologie « manufacturing process » et un dictionnaire « process control ». Chaque stratégie de recherche, appuyée par les structures sémantiques apporte un niveau de description différent et permet l’alignement de différents types de connaissances métier. Cette approche a été expérimentée au sein de l’entreprise STMicroelectronics et a révélé des résultats prometteursIn order to ensure the manufacturing of conforming products with the least waste, the manufacturing process control has ever more become a major issue in industries nowadays. The complexity of the information systems in industries and the permanent evolution of the business needs make difficult the retrieval of the resources that provide manufacturing information related to the process control. In addition, the use of commercial software platforms in industries for the processing of data, does not facilitate the access to the information produced, because these platforms do not support the semantic management of information.This thesis argues the need to reduce the distance between the used resources in industries and the business needs of the experts that ensure the control of the manufacturing processes.The S3 approach is proposed to support the control of the manufacturing processes through an original resource management system. This system is intended for both resource description and retrieval. The S3 approach relies on two complementary retrieval strategies: a bottom-up strategy enabling the creation of semantic descriptors of resources, and a top-down strategy enabling the capture of business needs in search patterns. Two semantic structures are proposed to support the resource description and retrieval mechanisms: a manufacturing process ontology and a process control dictionary. Basing on these semantic structures, each retrieval strategy provides different levels of description to the resources, and enables the alignment of different types of business knowledge. The experimentation of the approach within STMicroelectronics showed promising results
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Inants, Armen. "Qualitative calculi with heterogeneous universes." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAMO10/document.
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Représentation et raisonnement qualitatifs fonctionnent avec des relations non-numériques entre les objets d'un univers. Les formalismes généraux développés dans ce domaine sont basés sur différents types d'algèbres de relations, comme les algèbres de Tarski. Tous ces formalismes, qui sont appelés des calculs qualitatifs, partagent l'hypothèse implicite que l'univers est homogène, c'est-à-dire qu'il se compose d'objets de même nature. Toutefois, les objets de différents types peuvent aussi entretenir des relations. L'état de l'art du raisonnement qualitatif ne permet pas de combiner les calculs qualitatifs pour les différents types d'objets en un seul calcul.De nombreuses applications discriminent entre différents types d'objets. Par exemple, certains modèles spatiaux discriminent entre les régions, les lignes et les points, et différentes relations sont utilisées pour chaque type d'objets. Dans l'alignement d'ontologies, les calculs qualitatifs sont utiles pour exprimer des alignements entre un seul type d'entités, telles que des concepts ou des individus. Cependant, les relations entre les individus et les concepts, qui imposent des contraintes supplémentaires, ne sont pas exploitées.Cette thèse introduit la modularité dans les calculs qualitatifs et fournit une méthodologie pour la modélisation de calculs qualitatifs des univers hétérogènes. Notre contribution principale est un cadre basé sur une classe spéciale de schémas de partition que nous appelons modulaires. Pour un calcul qualitatif engendré par un schéma de partition modulaire, nous définissons une structure qui associe chaque symbole de relation avec un domaine et codomain abstrait à partir d'un treillis booléen de sortes. Un module d'un tel calcul qualitatif est un sous-calcul limité à une sorte donnée, qui est obtenu par une opération appelée relativisation à une sorte. D'un intérêt pratique plus grand est l'opération inverse, qui permet de combiner plusieurs calculs qualitatifs en un seul calcul. Nous définissons une opération appelée combinaison modulo liaison, qui combine deux ou plusieurs calculs qualitatifs sur différents univers, en fonction de quelques relations de liaison entre ces univers. Le cadre est suffisamment général pour soutenir la plupart des calculs spatio-temporels qualitatifs connusQualitative representation and reasoning operate with non-numerical relations holding between objects of some universe. The general formalisms developed in this field are based on various kinds of algebras of relations, such as Tarskian relation algebras. All these formalisms, which are called qualitative calculi, share an implicit assumption that the universe is homogeneous, i.e., consists of objects of the same kind. However, objects of different kinds may also entertain relations. The state of the art of qualitative reasoning does not offer a combination operation of qualitative calculi for different kinds of objects into a single calculus.Many applications discriminate between different kinds of objects. For example, some spatial models discriminate between regions, lines and points, and different relations are used for each kind of objects. In ontology matching, qualitative calculi were shown useful for expressing alignments between only one kind of entities, such as concepts or individuals. However, relations between individuals and concepts, which impose additional constraints, are not exploited.This dissertation introduces modularity in qualitative calculi and provides a methodology for modeling qualitative calculi with heterogeneous universes. Our central contribution is a framework based on a special class of partition schemes which we call modular. For a qualitative calculus generated by a modular partition scheme, we define a structure that associates each relation symbol with an abstract domain and codomain from a Boolean lattice of sorts. A module of such a qualitative calculus is a sub-calculus restricted to a given sort, which is obtained through an operation called relativization to a sort. Of a greater practical interest is the opposite operation, which allows for combining several qualitative calculi into a single calculus. We define an operation called combination modulo glue, which combines two or more qualitative calculi over different universes, provided some glue relations between these universes. The framework is general enough to support most known qualitative spatio-temporal calculi
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Uma forma de aprimorar a reutilização e a manutenção de uma família de produtos de software é através da utilização de uma abordagem de Linha de Produtos de Software (LPS). Em algumas situações, tais como aplicações científicas para uma determinada área, é vantajoso desenvolver uma coleção de produtos de software relacionados, utilizando uma abordagem de LPS. Linhas de Produtos de Software Científico (LPSC) diferem-se de Li nhas de Produtos de Software pelo fato de que LPSC fazem uso de um modelo abstrato de workflow científico. Esse modelo abstrato de workflow é definido de acordo com o domínio científico e, através deste workflow, os produtos da LPSC serão instanciados. Analisando as dificuldades em especificar experimentos científicos e considerando a necessidade de composição de aplicações científicas para a sua implementação, constata-se a necessidade de um suporte semântico mais adequado para a fase de análise de domínio. Para tanto, este trabalho propõe uma abordagem baseada na associação de modelo de features e onto logias, denominada PL-Science, para apoiar a especificação e a condução de experimentos científicos. A abordagem PL-Science, que considera o contexto de LPSC, visa auxiliar os cientistas através de um workflow que engloba as aplicações científicas de um dado experimento. Usando os conceitos de LPS, os cientistas podem reutilizar modelos que especificam a LPSC e tomar decisões de acordo com suas necessidades. Este trabalho enfatiza o uso de ontologias para facilitar o processo de aplicação de LPS em domínios científicos. Através do uso de ontologia como um modelo de domínio consegue-se fornecer informações adicionais, bem como adicionar mais semântica ao contexto de LPSC.
A way to improve reusability and maintainability of a family of software products is through the Software Product Line (SPL) approach. In some situations, such as scientific applications for a given area, it is advantageous to develop a collection of related software products, using an SPL approach. Scientific Software Product Lines (SSPL) differs from the Software Product Lines due to the fact that SSPL uses an abstract scientific workflow model. This workflow is defined according to the scientific domain and, using this abstract workflow model, the products will be instantiated. Analyzing the difficulties to specify scientific experiments, and considering the need for scientific applications composition for its implementation, an appropriated semantic support for the domain analysis phase is necessary. Therefore, this work proposes an approach based on the combination of feature models and ontologies, named PL-Science, to support the specification and conduction of scientific experiments. The PL-Science approach, which considers the context of SPL and aims to assist scientists to define a scientific experiment, specifying a workflow that encompasses scientific applications of a given experiment, is presented during this disser tation. Using SPL concepts, scientists can reuse models that specify the scientific product line and carefully make decisions according to their needs. This work also focuses on the use of ontologies to facilitate the process of applying Software Product Line to scientific domains. Through the use of ontology as a domain model, we can provide additional information as well as add more semantics in the context of Scientific Software Product Lines.