Presentation of the reconciliation API at the Ontology Matching 2020 workshop

Hi all,

Last month I had the opportunity to present our work to the Ontology
Matching workshop, part of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC).

http://om2020.ontologymatching.org/

(I am not sure if the video is available anywhere).

This community develops algorithms to match ontologies, but is also
interested in other tasks such as matching between instances of concepts
(which is closer to our notion of reconciliation). They run yearly
competitions where systems are evaluated on test datasets:

- the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative
(http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2020/)

- the SemTab challenge (http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/isg/challenges/sem-tab/)

My aim with this presentation was to convince them of the interest in
using web APIs like ours in their systems. In particular, I think it
would be great if such a web API could be used for communication between
the matching system and the evaluator (which submits reconciliation
problems to the system).

The idea has generated some enthusiasm but of course quite some
discussions need to happen to get clear on how much overlap there can be
between the two use cases.

Vladimir has noted on GitHub that we could take some inspiration from
the SemTab tasks to add new features to the protocol:

https://github.com/reconciliation-api/specs/issues/59

Among others:

- joint reconciliation of multiple columns

- dedicated endpoint to guess the type of a column, or the relation
between two columns (as a property)

- reconciling without specifying the properties linking the various
columns supplied

I am optimistic about what could come out of those discussions, since
those are two communities doing very similar things but which have not
really been talking together so far! What do you think?

Best,

Antonin

Received on Thursday, 3 December 2020 17:55:08 UTC