Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List


WikiMatcher-Thesis.pdf (330.5 KB)

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

WikiMatcher: Leveraging Wikipedia for Ontology Alignment

McCurdy, Helena Brooke
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0650-0845
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1461710743

Abstract Details

2016, Master of Science in Computer Engineering (MSCE), Wright State University, Computer Engineering.
As the Semantic Web grows, so does the number of ontologies used to structure the data within it. Aligning these ontologies is critical to fully realizing the potential of the web. Previous work in ontology alignment has shown that even alignment systems utilizing basic string similarity metrics can produce useful matches. Researchers speculate that including semantic as well as syntactic information inherent in entity labels can further improve alignment results. This paper examines that hypothesis by exploring the utility of using Wikipedia as a source of semantic information. Various elements of Wikipedia are considered, including article content, page terms, and search snippets. The utility of each information source is analyzed and a composite system, WikiMatcher, is created based on this analysis. The performance of WikiMatcher is compared to that of a basic string-based alignment system on two established alignment benchmarks and two other real-world datasets. The extensive evaluation shows that although WikiMatcher performs similarly to that of the string metric overall, it is able to find many matches with no syntactic similarity between labels. This performance seems to be driven by Wikipedia's query resolution and page redirection system, rather than by the particular information from Wikipedia that is used to compare entities.
Michelle Cheatham, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Mateen Rizki, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
59 p.
Computer Engineering; Computer Science
ontology alignment; wikipedia

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • McCurdy, H. B. (2016). WikiMatcher: Leveraging Wikipedia for Ontology Alignment [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1461710743

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McCurdy, Helena. WikiMatcher: Leveraging Wikipedia for Ontology Alignment. 2016. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1461710743.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McCurdy, Helena. "WikiMatcher: Leveraging Wikipedia for Ontology Alignment." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1461710743

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

wright1461710743
615
© 2016, all rights reserved.
This open access ETD is published by Wright State University and OhioLINK.