Comparing Ontologies - A Case Study

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Overview

The case study for comparing domain specific ontologies has been carried out at Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe within an Ontology Engineering Seminar. 4 students were given different starting points for building domain specific ontologies for the tourism domain.

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Reference - Ontology
Subject 1 - Ontology
Subject 2 - Ontology
Subject 3 - Ontology
Subject 4 - Ontology
 

Phase I:

Basis: Domain-specific texts available at http://www.all-in-all.com

Task: Create 300 concepts, organize them hierarchically, add approx. 100 generic relations between them

tourism_refI.flo

tourism_refI.daml

tourism_refI.oil

tourism_I1.flo

tourism_I1.daml

tourism_I1.oil

tourism_I2.flo

tourism_I2.daml

tourism_I2.oil

tourism_I3.flo

tourism_I3.daml

tourism_I3.oil

tourism_I4.flo

tourism_I4.daml

tourism_I4.oil

 

Phase II

Basis: 300 concepts

Task: organize the 300 concepts hierarchically, add approx. 100 generic relations between them.

tourism_refII.flo

tourism_refII.daml

tourism_refII.oil

tourism_II1.flo

tourism_II1.daml

tourism_II1.oil

tourism_II2.flo

tourism_II2.daml

tourism_II2..oil

tourism_II3.flo

tourism_II3.daml

tourism_II3.oil

tourism_II4.flo

tourism_II4.daml

tourism_II4.oil

 

Phase III

Basis: concept taxonomy with 300 concepts.

Task: add approx. 100 generic relations between concepts

tourism_refIII.flo

tourism_refIII.daml

tourism_refIII.oil

tourism_III1.flo

tourism_III1.daml

tourism_III1.oil

tourism_III2.flo

tourism_III2.daml

tourism_III2.oil

tourism_III3.flo

tourism_III3.daml

tourism_III3.oil

tourism_III4.flo

tourism_III4.daml

tourism_III4.oil

Papers:

Alexander Maedche and Steffen Staab: Comparing Ontologies - Similarity Measures and a Comparison Study. Internal Report 408, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe

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Alexander Maedche, maedche@aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de, Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany