Week 6

Welcome to the sixth week of the course!

Main topic of this week: Ontology Matching

Learning outcomes of this week

After completing this week successfully, the students are capable of:

Explaining what ontology matching is and why it is important
Discussing practical and methodological issues
Describing different techniques for ontology matching
Evaluating the quality of ontology matching

Learning activities of this week

[22/03 10:45 - 12:30] Lecture 6: Ontology Matching

[25/03 13:45 - 17:30] Practical session 6: Ontology Matching

Self-learning materials

[1] Euzenat Jérôme, & Shvaiko, P. (2013). Ontology matching (2nd ed.). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Chapter 2. The Matching Problem
Chapter 4. Classifications of Ontology Matching Techniques
Chapter 9. Evaluation of Matching Systems

Complementary

[2] Castano S., Ferrara A., Montanelli S., Varese G. (2011) Ontology and Instance Matching. In: Paliouras G., Spyropoulos C.D., Tsatsaronis G. (eds) Knowledge-Driven Multimedia Information Extraction and Ontology Evolution. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6050. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

[3] Peter Ochieng and Swaib Kyanda. 2018. Large-Scale Ontology Matching: State-of-the-Art Analysis. ACM Computing Surveys. 51, 4, Article 75 (July 2019), 35 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3211871

[4] ontologymatching.org provides a repository of information devoted to different aspects of ontology matching.

[5] Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI) organises evaluation campaigns aiming at evaluating ontology matching technologies since 2004.

[5] OpenHPI Tutorials - 5.4 Ontology Alignment

[6] VU Amsterdam course - Module 5.2 Ontology Matching