Ontology Mapping - An Integrated Approach

Semantic mapping between ontologies is a core issue to solve for enabling interoperability across the Semantic Web. To handle the increasing number of individual ontologies it becomes necessary to develop automatic approaches. In this paper we present such an approach. In brief, we determine similarity through rules which have been manually formulated by ontology experts. The outcomes of these rules are then aggregated to gain one overall result. Several boosting small actions follow. In the end we have pairs of ontological entities mapping to one another. Finally, we evaluate the approach thoroughly with very promising results.