FCA-Merge: Bottom-up merging of ontologies

Authors: 
Stumme, G; Maedche, A
Author: 
Stumme, G
Maedche, A
Year: 
2001
Venue: 
Proc. IJCAI
URL: 
http://reference.kfupm.edu.sa/content/f/c/fca_merge__bottom_up_merging_of_ontologi_104052.pdf
Citations: 
669
Citations range: 
500 - 999
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Ontologies have been established for knowledge
sharing and are widely used as a means for conceptually
structuring domains of interest. With
the growing usage of ontologies, the problem of
overlapping knowledge in a common domain becomes
critical. We propose the new method
FCA–MERGE for merging ontologies following a
bottom-up approach which offers a structural description
of the merging process. The method
is guided by application-specific instances of the
given source ontologies, that are to be merged. We
apply techniques from natural language processing
and formal concept analysis to derive a lattice of
concepts as a structural result of FCA–MERGE.
The generated result is then explored and transformed
into the merged ontology with human interaction.