Re: crosslingual matching of GTAA, Times Topics, and DBpedia (from ISWC)

Hi Jodi,

Some more background and links on this. This crosslingual matching track from the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) is in its third edition. So you can already find some material in the reports of previous years [1] and on the website [2]: there are some changes from one version to the other, but the previous editions are interesting to look at as well :-)

In fact, if people here are interested in the topic, I can report on a "Library Track" I was involved in for the same initiative, for 3 years in a row [3,4]. We had participants align two thesauri from the National Library of the Netherlands, and evaluated the results in 2 application scenarios.

It was a very enriching thing to do, and the Crosslingual track is also bringing very nice results. Unfortunately both tracks suffer(ed) from the lack of enthusiasm from OAEI participants. The case we bring are difficult for the typical ontology matching tool there: we have large value vocabularies, not OWL ontologies corresponding to metadata element sets. And a significant set of these vocabularies is not English...

Antoine

[1] http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-431/oaei08_paper0.pdf, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-551/oaei09_paper0.pdf
[2] http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/vlcr/, http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/vlcr/
[3] http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2007/library/, http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2008/library/, http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2009/library/
[4]http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-304/paper9.pdf


> Crosslingual matching of the Thesaurus of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (GTAA), the New York Times subject headings and DBpedia was a test case on ontology matching of very large crosslingual resources reported at ISWC this year.
>
> Task description:
> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~laurah/oaei/2010/
> The preliminary paper was part of an IWSC workshop based on aligning ontologies across languages:
> http://om2010.ontologymatching.org/#prg
> It suggests that an updated paper will be released, but for now I find this:
> http://disi.unitn.it/~p2p/OM-2010/oaei10_paper0.pdf
>
> -Jodi

Received on Monday, 3 January 2011 17:22:11 UTC