We present a method to measure the amount of structural distortion carried by an alignment between two taxonomic cores of ontologies represented as semantic hierarchies. We present our formalism based in metric order theory. We then illustrate the results of such an analysis on the Anatomy track of the 2008 Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative (OAEI).
Revised: September 16, 2015 |
Published: August 18, 2009
Citation
Joslyn C.A., P.R. Paulson, and A.M. White. 2009.Measuring the Structural Preservation of Semantic Hierarchy Alignments. In The Fourth International Workshop on Ontology Matching (OM-2009), October 25, 2009, Chantilly, Virginia, edited by P Shvaiko, et al, 551. Aachen:CEUR Workshop Proceedings. PNWD-SA-8703.