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The PROMPT Suite

The PROMPT Suite . Interactive Tools For Ontology Merging And Mapping. 1. Managing Multiple Ontologies. Many different parties develop ontologies Overlapping content: For example Yahoo! and Dmoz.org) What if we wanted to use them both as they were just one ontology? Merging

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The PROMPT Suite

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  1. The PROMPT Suite Interactive Tools For Ontology Merging And Mapping

  2. 1. Managing Multiple Ontologies • Many different parties develop ontologies • Overlapping content: For example Yahoo! and Dmoz.org) • What if we wanted to use them both as they were just one ontology? • Merging • Aligning / Mapping • We would have to: • Find the similarities • Determine what the similarities are • … and decide what to do next.

  3. 2. The PROMPT Knownledge Model • PROMPT: Extension to the Proégé ontology-editing enviroment • Frame-based • Principal building blocks • Each frame has a unique name • Three types of frame types • Classes • Slots • Instances

  4. Frames: Class, instances and slots • Class: A set of entities • Hierarchy multiple inheritance • Instances: Elements of class’ set. • The class of an instance is called its type • Each instance can have only one type • Slots: ”The glue” between classes – The data of an instance • Attached to classes (it’s domain). • Defines binary relations between instances • Attributes of the instances • Can have a range defined • Another class (in which case a slot is a binary relation) • Primitive datatype (String, Integer, Float, and Boolean) • Cardinality: The number of values a slot can have (min, max) • A slot attached to a class is also attached to its subclasses

  5. 3. The PROMPT Framework • A single framework for working width muliple ontologies • Includes the tools: • IPrompt (Merging tool) • AnchorPrompt (Alignment tool) • PromptDiff (Versioning tool) • PromptFactor (Find semantically complete sub-ontologies)

  6. 4. IPROMPT • An interactive ontology-merging tool • Takes two ontologies as input • Guides the user in the creation of one merged ontology as output … but how?

  7. IPROMPT – INN MED FIGUR 3 • Creates an initial list of matches based on lexical similarity of class names. • Then, the following cycle is done: • The user acepts IPROMPTs suggestion OR uses the ontology-editing methods directly • IPROMPT performs the operation, generates a list of suggestions for the user and determines inconsistencies and potential problems and finds possible solutions for those problems.

  8. INN MED FIGUR 3

  9. 4.1.1 The IPROMPT Operations • Merge classes • Class A and B becomes M in Om • Any subclasses of A or B become subclasses of M. • All slot-references to A or B are attached to M. • A and B is deleted.

  10. Merge slots • S1 and S2 becomes Sm • For each class C in the domain or range of S1 and S2, add Ci to the domain or range of Sm • Merge instances • I1 and I2 becomes Im • If the the types (their classes) is missing in Om; copy them into Om by using the operationperform a shallow copy of a class • Perform a shallow copy of a class • Copy class C to Ci to Om • For each slot S directly attached to C, if its not already in Om, copy it into Om as well and attach it to Ci.

  11. Perform a deep copy of a class • First do a shallow copy of C to Om, then: • Copy all its parents classes up to the root of the hierarchy to Om.

  12. 4.1.2 Inconsistencies and potential problems • Name conflicts • Solution: Rename • Dangling references • Possible solution: Copy missing frames into the Ontology • Redundancy in the class hierarchy • Possible solution: Remove one parent • Slot values violating slot-value restrictions

  13. 4.2 The IPROMPT Tool • Additional features of the IPROMPT tool • Setting the preferred ontology • Lets the system resolve conflicts automatically. • Maintaining the user’s focus • One part of the ontology at a time • Providing feedback to the user • Why did IPROMPT suggest… • Logging and reapplying the operations • Reapply operations (almost) automatically.

  14. AnchorPrompt • Goal • Help IPROMPT find similarity between ontologies. Same term names not needed. • Assumption • Developers link the terms in the ontology in a similar manner. • Input • Set of pairs of related terms. • Output • Ranked set of new pairs of semantically close terms.

  15. AnchorPrompt • Views each otology O as a directed labelled graph G. • Each class C is a node • Each slot S is a edge • If, starting at node A, it is possible to follow a sequence of adjaced edges to reach node B, there is at path between A and B. • Lenght of the path is the number of edges

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  18. Merging Is one ontologi more desirable than the other? Should all the infomation in both ontoligies be used? Aligning The main choices…

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