Limiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiation
Ontology alignment (also called ontology matching) is the process of identifying correspondences between entities in different, possibly heterogeneous, ontologies. Traditional ontology alignment techniques rely on the full disclosure of the ontological models; however, within open and opportunistic...
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2016
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| author | Jimenez Ruiz, E Payne, T Solimando, A Tamma, V |
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| description | Ontology alignment (also called ontology matching) is the process of identifying correspondences between entities in different, possibly heterogeneous, ontologies. Traditional ontology alignment techniques rely on the full disclosure of the ontological models; however, within open and opportunistic environments, such approaches may not always be pragmatic or even acceptable (due to privacy concerns). Several studies have focussed on collaborative, decentralised approaches to ontology alignment, where agents negotiate the acceptability of single correspondences acquired from past encounters, or try to ascertain novel correspondences on the fly. However, such approaches can lead to logical violations that may undermine their utility. In this paper, we extend a dialogical approach to correspondence negotiation, whereby agents not only exchange details of possible correspondences, but also identify potential violations to the consistency and conservativity principles. We present a formal model of the dialogue, and show how agents can repair logical violations during the dialogue by invoking a correspondence repair, thus negotiating and exchanging repair plans. We illustrate this opportunistic alignment mechanism with an example and we empirically show that allowing agents to strategically reject or weaken correspondences when these cause violations does not degrade the effectiveness of the alignment computed, whilst reducing the number of residual violations. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:42d9d145-18a6-4d54-afc2-10d9d82c36f32022-03-26T14:51:53ZLimiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiationConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:42d9d145-18a6-4d54-afc2-10d9d82c36f3Symplectic Elements at OxfordAAAI Press2016Jimenez Ruiz, EPayne, TSolimando, ATamma, VOntology alignment (also called ontology matching) is the process of identifying correspondences between entities in different, possibly heterogeneous, ontologies. Traditional ontology alignment techniques rely on the full disclosure of the ontological models; however, within open and opportunistic environments, such approaches may not always be pragmatic or even acceptable (due to privacy concerns). Several studies have focussed on collaborative, decentralised approaches to ontology alignment, where agents negotiate the acceptability of single correspondences acquired from past encounters, or try to ascertain novel correspondences on the fly. However, such approaches can lead to logical violations that may undermine their utility. In this paper, we extend a dialogical approach to correspondence negotiation, whereby agents not only exchange details of possible correspondences, but also identify potential violations to the consistency and conservativity principles. We present a formal model of the dialogue, and show how agents can repair logical violations during the dialogue by invoking a correspondence repair, thus negotiating and exchanging repair plans. We illustrate this opportunistic alignment mechanism with an example and we empirically show that allowing agents to strategically reject or weaken correspondences when these cause violations does not degrade the effectiveness of the alignment computed, whilst reducing the number of residual violations. |
| spellingShingle | Jimenez Ruiz, E Payne, T Solimando, A Tamma, V Limiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiation |
| title | Limiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiation |
| title_full | Limiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiation |
| title_fullStr | Limiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiation |
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| title_short | Limiting logical violations in ontology alignment through negotiation |
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