Inproceedings1258

Formalizing Ontology Alignment and its Operations with Category Theory

Antoine Zimmermann, Markus Krötzsch, Jérôme Euzenat, Pascal Hitzler

Published: 2006 November
Herausgeber: Brandon Bennett and Christiane Fellbaum
Buchtitel: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2006)
Ausgabe: 150
Reihe: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Seiten: 277--288
Verlag: IOS Press

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An ontology alignment is the expression of relations between different ontologies. In order to view alignments independently from the language expressing ontologies and from the techniques used for finding the alignments, we use a category-theoretical model in which ontologies are the objects. We introduce a categorical structure, called V-alignment, made of a pair of morphisms with a common domain having the ontologies as codomain. This structure serves to design an algebra that describes formally what are ontology merging, alignment composition, union and intersection using categorical constructions. This enables combining alignments of various provenance. Although the desirable properties of this algebra make such abstract manipulation of V-alignments very simple, it is practically not well fitted for expressing complex alignments: expressing subsumption between entities of two different ontologies demands the definition of non-standard categories of ontologies. We consider two approaches to solve this problem. The first one extends the notion of V-alignments to a more complex structure called W-alignments: a formalization of alignments relying on

ISBN: 978-1-58603-685-0
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SEKT, SmartWeb, KnowledgeWeb

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Wissensrepräsentation, Logik, Künstliche Intelligenz, Semantic Web