SANTOS, M. O. ; MELLO, C. E. R. ; CLASSE, T. M. . A Useful Tool to Support the Ontology Alignment Repair. In: Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems (BRACIS), 2020, RIo Grande. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2020. v. 12320. p. 201-215. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61380-8_14
A Useful Tool to Support the Ontology Alignment Repair
Authors
Miriam Oliveira dos Santos (UNIRIO)
Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro de Mello (UNIRIO)
Tadeu Moreira de Classe (UNIRIO)
Abstract
Ontologies are used in Information Systems to manage and share knowledge pertaining to different domains, considering it is common that one particular piece of knowledge is modeled individually into different ontologies. Alignment processes are carried out towards interoperability; however, the results are not effective in most cases, requiring manual repair and review by domain experts. Thus, this work introduces a repair and review tool for the alignment of ontologies with the goal of assisting experts in the alignment repair tasks. Using the technology acceptance model, a proof of concept was made to analyze the perception by domain experts regarding the tool’s usefulness, ease, and intention of use. From statistical analyses in terms of reliability, default path, inference, and correlation, it has been found that study participants had a positive perception of the tool’s usefulness and ease in the tasks of ontology alignment repair. Therefore, the tool and its functionalities proved to be useful towards assisting domain experts in their tasks of reducing the semantic heterogeneity among ontologies pertaining to the same domain through alignment repair.
Keywords:
Ontology matching, Ontology alignment repair, Data visualization, Technology acceptance model, Proof of concept
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61380-8_14
