Utilizing Statistical Semantic Similarity Techniques for Ontology Mapping——with Applications to AEC Standard Models

作     者：Chin-Pang Jack Cheng Gloria T. Lau Kincho H. Law 

作者机构：Engineering Informatics Group Stanford University 

出 版 物：《Tsinghua Science and Technology》 (清华大学学报（自然科学版（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2008年第13卷第S1期

页      面：217-222页

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学科分类：08[工学] 081304[工学-建筑技术科学] 0813[工学-建筑学] 

基　　金：the US National Science Foundation  Grant No. CMS-0601167 

主　　题：ontology mapping similarity analysis information interoperation statistical analysis techniques 

摘      要：The objective of this paper is to introduce three semi-automated approaches for ontology mapping using relatedness analysis techniques. In the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, there exist a number of ontological standards to describe the semantics of building models. Although the standards share similar scopes of interest, the task of comparing and mapping concepts among standards is challenging due to their differences in terminologies and perspectives. Ontology mapping is therefore necessary to achieve information interoperability, which allows two or more information sources to exchange data and to re-use the data for further purposes. The attribute-based approach, corpus-based approach, and name-based approach presented in this paper adopt the statistical relatedness analysis techniques to discover related concepts from heterogeneous ontologies. A pilot study is conducted on IFC and CIS/2 ontologies to evaluate the approaches. Preliminary results show that the attribute-based approach outperforms the other two approaches in terms of precision and F-measure.