ontology_matching_with_semantic_verification.pdf

G Model WEBSEM-158; No. of Pages 17 ARTICLE IN PRESS Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web xxx (2009) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web j o u rn al h omepage: w w w. elsev /locate/w ebsem Ontology matching with semantic verification Yves R. Jean-Mary a , E. Patrick Shironoshita a , Mansur R. Kabuka a,b,∗ a INFOTECH Soft, Inc., 1201 Brickell AVE STE 220, Miami, FL 33131, USA b University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Automated Semantic Matching of Ontologies with Verification (ASMOV) is a novel algorithm that uses lex- Received 7 March 2008 ical and structural characteristics of two ontologies to iteratively calculate a similarity measure between Received in revised form 13 February 2009 them, derives an alignment, and then verifies it to ensure that it does not contain semantic inconsisten- Accepted 22 April 2009 cies. In this paper, we describe the ASMOV algorithm, and then present experimental results that measure Available online xxx its accuracy using the OAEI 2008 tests, and that evaluate its use with two different thesauri: WordNet, and the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). These results show the increased accuracy obtained Keywords: by combining lexical, structural and e