Ontology Merging

For this class we will read one paper about ontology merging and alignment:

Natalya Fridman Noy and Mark A. Musen: An algorithm for merging and aligning ontologies: Automation and tool support. AAAI workshop on Ontology Management, 1999. We are reading this paper because it provides a good description of an algorithm for merging ontologies. Ontologies are an interesting kind of model that is not a database schema, so studying them provides a good contrast. The paper also covers aligning or matching schemas, which we will cover more thoroughly later in the term.

This paper is straight forward and should be easy to read. Don't get hung up on the lisp syntax; just stare at it until you have a general idea of what it is attempting to accomplish.

Additional optional readings on SMART (later renamed PROMPT):

Natalya Fridman Noy, Mark A. Musen: PROMPT: Algorithm and Tool for Automated Ontology Merging and Alignment. AAAI/IAAI 2000: 450-455
SMART: Automated Support for Ontology Merging and Alignment by Noy, N.F. and Musen M.A. In the Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management. Banff, Canada. Available as SMI technical report SMI-1999-0813 (1999)

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