Context-Sensitive Referencing for Ontology Mapping Disambiguation.pdf

Context-Sensitive Referencing for Ontology Mapping Disambiguation Heiko Paulheim, Michael Rebstock, and Janina Fengel? Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences {lastname}@fbw.h-da.de Abstract. Ontologies can be used for e-business integration, for exam- ple by describing existing e-business standards as ontologies. If cooperat- ing parties use different ontologies, ontology mappings are needed, which can be ambiguous, thus making ontology mapping disambiguation neces- sary. Different disambiguation strategies exist, such as community-driven or context-sensitive referencing of ontologies, where the latter is what we developed in our project. In this paper, we show that community-driven referencing can be realized using a context-sensitive referencing service in a way that the user administration is transparent to the referencing system. Keywords: Semantic Synchronization, Ontology Mapping, Ontological Engineering, Context-Sensitivity, Communities 1 E-Business Integration with Ontologies Standards play an important role in electronic business. Unfortunately, there are different and competing standards for describing products, processes, documents, and the like. To allow interoperability, mechanisms that allow parallel usage of elements from different e-business standards in the same process are needed. Nowadays, such mechanisms mainly either exist in the users’ minds, or in fixed translation tables that require a major project effort and do not allow dy- namic change. Furthermore, semantic synchronizations carried out manually are not persistent. With the framework presented in this paper, we provide a general architecture for the implementation of an evolutionary semantic synchronization service that can be integrated into different e-business systems to support users with semantic knowledge. Following [1], we look at e-business standards as ontologies, thus, the elements to be synchronized are the ontologies’ concepts and properties. This enables us to u