Towards a Benchmark for Ontology Merging

Authors: 
Raunich, S; Rahm, E
Author: 
Raunich, S
Rahm, E
Year: 
2012
Venue: 
Proc. 7th OTM Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N'2012)
URL: 
http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/towards_a_benchmark_for_ontology_merging
Citations range: 
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Benchmarking approaches for ontology merging is challenging and has received little attention so far. A key problem is that there is in general no single best solution for a merge task and that merging may either be performed symmetrically or asymmetrically. As a first step to evaluate the quality of ontology merging solutions we propose the use of general metrics such as the relative coverage of the input ontologies, the compactness of the merge result as well as the degree of introduced redundancy. We use these metrics to evaluate three merge approaches for different merge scenarios.